THE MILLENNIUM ARRIVES 

A floating community, such as the boats and crews of the 1997 flotilla is full of life and emotion, joys and exitement. Join their everyday life on their seven week journey from Toronto to Bonavista during a cold Canadian spring. 
Share their experiences as seen from Millennium II, a 32 foot Contessa sloop, skippered by Gerta Woodberry, the only female skipper in the fleet. 
Experience the journey along the mighty St Lawrence, calling at the ports of the Newfoundland Flotilla 2000 itinary. Share their enjoyment of Newfoundland hospitality.  
Marvel how small settlements celebrated the arrival of the flotilla in their ports, whose population was quite often outnumbered by the visiting sailors. 
Many of the boats described in the book will again undertake the journey joining   
You can meet them in the pages of this entertaining weekend read - and get into the spirit of sailing eastwards into the sunrise again. 

The book is available 
at stores in St John's Newfoundland  
at marine supply stores and marine book stores in Toronto 
or order by e-mail: gertaw@businessvalue.on.ca 

The Millennium Arrives 
280 pages, 16 pages of photos 
$ 16.50 plus applicable taxes plus $ 5.00 shipping and handling