The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1977, Page 49

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Leather boat ends Atlantic Trip
St. John’s (CP) — The leather boat
Brendan its four occupants smiling
to the welcoming cheers of a crowd of
about 400, snuggled into a wharf at
Musgrave Harbour in Newfoundland’s
Notre Dame Bay about 300 miles north
of here last night.
The transatlantic sailors, weary of
waiting out an off-shore southerly wind
for most of the day, accepted a tow over
the last couple of miles to the wharf
from a boat from the Canadian Coast
Guard ship John Cabot.
The vessel is being sailed by Tim
Sverin of Britain and a three-man crew,
The voyage is intended to demonstrate
that a sixth-century Irish monk, St.
Brendan, may have been the first
European to reach the New World.
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