No, that's not my belly button in the pocket of my hoodie and I am not just glad to have some sun and no wind!
We will be entering the St Anthony harbor in 2 hours. I've been assigned linesman duty which means that I and a few others will go ashore by rubber boat to take the docking lines when Nellie docks. In Akureyri with gale force winds the was quite tricky. Today, so far, it is calm and it should be a straight forward task.
We are all very excited to be finally reaching Canada after weeks at sea
Our course from Iceland took us to seldom traveled waters where we saw no other ship traffic, aircraft or any other signs of either land or man. It will be be hard to be patient going up river for several days covering the final miles to Quebec City.
The St Lawrence estuary will be our second major estuary, the first having been the Thames. We will be going up stream against the current under power and will have 2 pilots on board to guide us during the busiest stretch. They will take shifts during the 26 hours that they are on board, eating and sleeping on board as well.
To give you an idea of how large this river that drains 20 % of the world's fresh water is, I'm told that there are places where the shipping channel narrows to only 1 mile and, should a larger ship meet us coming down stream, we will have to move aside to yield the right of way.
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