The Brendan, a 36 foot leather boat leaves Reykjavik's harbor in Iceland on its final leg across the North Atlantic. The historical odyssey duplicated the voyage of Saint Brendan, a 6th century Irish monk-explorer who was the first, through legend,…
According to one medieval legend, St. Brendan and a band of hearty monks sail westward from the Irish coast sometime before 600 A.D. in a leather-hulled boat, and discovered the New World. To recreate that voyage, a small group of modern-day…