The swell is still 5m offshore, so we wait until tomorrow before leaving Newfoundland to head for Narsaq in Greenland. Eight years ago, on May 13th as well, we left Brest with the same destination!

The snowmobile season is just ending here in Saint Anthony, and the Coast Guard icebreaker came three weeks ago to free the fishing boats. As every year, about ten polar bears have been seen in early spring. But Mooses are present all year round.

Still getting our sea legs, the conditions are nice, the fishermen as well: "which side would you like to pass?". The new radar, the search light ahead and the central heating are very welcomed for this first night of sailing between all kind of ice coming from Baffin Island and Labrador. At Musgrave Harbour, we find a technician for a last setting of the radar, and we let pass some bad weather. It's the beginning of the snow crab season, and we're enjoying it.

At 9am this Wednesday morning, we leave the very protected port of St John's, the end of an busy technical stop. Vagabond is ready for the next mission, heading to Greenland!

It has been ten days of work and revisions of all kinds: paints, engines, diving equipment, bilge pumps, fire extinguishers, navigation lights... and even setting up a brand new radar, since its predecessor has given up. The multi-beam sonar arm, which will be used during the month of August, was designed and tested with the help of Kirk and Andrew. Thanks to Dana and Patrick we met the day we arrived in St John's, we enjoyed their huge and beautiful pick-up to get all our supplies. Thanks also to Rick from Ocean Quest and his daughter Jill, Tony from Atlantic Electronics, Jerry the Marine Insultant, Ben for his cookies... not to customs for keeping our bottles. The entire crew was busy, under the expertise of Christophe, and Ronan joined us Sunday night for two weeks.

Vagabond had not stopped in such a large city since 2011; a population as welcoming and helpful as fog and icebergs are present!

From Saint-Pierre, we make our way to southeastern Newfoundland, and we pass Cape Freels before doing a small stopover at Trepassey, to stretch our legs and slowly find our sea legs. Vagabond had not been so far south since spring 2003 (Japan)!

We arrived in Miquelon by plane. We met VAGABOND!!! Everything was fine except some stuff (windmill, radar, etc ...). Léonie and I went to the school-college in Miquelon. For 10 days we had fun with our new friends. Layla even invited me to sleep at her home. We watched the launch of the boat with the school-college. It was moving. At Easter, we went for a walk. We did kite flying and looked for eggs. We had a lot of fun. Then we went to Saint-Pierre. The short cruise lasted 5 hours. We made a talk at the Cultural and Sports Center. And we started the French school-college at the boat.

Watch a documentary film and meet the crew at the Culture and Sport Center in Saint-Pierre, at 6:00 pm.

Vagabond is floating again!

Watch a documentary film and meet the crew at the Nature and Environment House, in Miquelon, at 5:30pm.