Brendan was going lazily along. They got a position check from the Lord Jellicoe and later when they were listening to the news broadcast they heard the Lord Jellicoe ask if the leather boat had been carrying a crew of mad Irish monks. They didn't hear the reply because they were all doubled up with laughter!
The only worrying thing was that the skin near the H-frame was slack and not looking good. But Brendan was still holding up well. Most people had expected her to sink after just 5 days, and she had been afloat much longer than that! It was helping that the weather was getting colder. When it really got chilly, they put on wool clothes instead of their artificial fiber clothing they had been wearing. Their metal tools had already rusted, and had been replaced when possible by something made of a natural material.
The medieval sailors were much better equipped then many people think they were. Their things held up, and they could repair them without a lot of tools.
Brendan was going through the middle of the Faroes islands, when she ran into a gale off the Mykines cliffs. These were dangerous cliffs, and if Brendan ran onto them, she would be sunk. The wind was blowing them onto the cliffs, and they were going forward very slowly!
I'll stop here. Next time: How they got out of this hole.
More soon!
Bell
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