It is the morning of June 9th. I have had to put the heater on high to warm up the main cabin so my bread will rise. Peter is on watch in the cockpit and even the enclosure has a horrible dampness to it. A chill that gets you to the bone. I've opened up the companionway to try and get him some heat on this gloomy day. We decided yesterday to motor through the night in order to get to St. Anthony this evening. Carl pulled the night watch and ended up shutting off the engines and bobbing around for a few hours in what we call the pinch (AKA Strait of Belle Isle), this is where some icebergs funnel down the west coast, even though it was a clear night it would be hard to spot icebergs. Lucky enough we didn't see any bergs until this morning around 8am. We are located at 51°38N, 55°58W with 3 icebergs ahead of us. It's cold, overcast, damp with patchy rain and a touch of fog, not the best of days to get excited about icebergs. In another hour or so we should be coming around the top end of Newfoundland where we'll see a lot more berg action, hopefully I get some good shots. If not the icebergs in Greenland will be spectacular! Fingers crossed for wifi (and ice cream) in St. Anthony.
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