Maryam is following the Viking Route

Following is what I left in the Guest Book of the Communications Station which we visited Sunday afternoon:

Maryam is following the Viking Route from Bergen, Norway, to the US.
We left Bergen on 3 August and have stopped in Torshavn, Faroe Islands; Westman Islands and Reykjavik, Iceland; and Tasiilaq, Greenland. From here we hope to transit PCS and to cross to Newfoundland, then through the Straight of Belle Isle to Halifax and the US. We spent two comfortable nights in the anchorage just north of here as a storm (50 knot winds, 10 meter waves) raged outside.

Maryam is a 52' GRP sloop built by Hank Hinckley in 1982. Her hailing port is Birmingham, Alabama, the hometown of the captain and owner, Beverly Head.

The five crew include two Americans, a Norwegian, a Swede and his French girlfriend. The first mate is Trond Hjertø, a Norwegian on his third Atlantic crossing, whom the captain met in Ulsteinvik, Norway, where Maryam was prepared for the voyage. Al Erlandsen is a retired Foreign Service Officer from Seattle. He has a wooden sail boat there.Al contacted the captain through a mutual acquaintance, Larry Luce, who helped prepare Maryam. The Swede, David Johnson, is a professional photographer who has raced extensively in Australia.
Delphine Monnier, is from La Plaine sur Mer on the Bay of Biscay. She is a recent graduate of Nantes University where she studied integrated marine management of coastal areas. David and Delphine learned of the voyage from the captain's posting with the New York Yacht Club, which is his club.

We salute the staff here at the Communications and are quite grateful for their generous hospitality.