In 1998, Marel decided to sail her across the Atlantic as part of the millennial celebration in 2000 of his ancestor Leif Eriksson's voyage to Vinland.

[2] The ship set sail from Reykjavík on Icelandic National Day, 17 June, with Marel skippering and a crew of eight including one woman, Ellen Ingvadottir, who kept the weblog of the voyage.

[4] Her first port of call was Búðardalur in Hvammsfjörður, where she took part in celebrations at Eiríksstaðir, where Erik the Red lived and his son Leif was born.

Despite a 10-hour ordeal with bad weather off Cape Farewell,[4] she arrived on 15 July at Brattahlíð in Greenland for the celebration of the viking settlement attended by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

[1][6] From there the ship sailed, via several ports of call in Newfoundland,[1] to New York City, where she arrived on 5 October, approximately 3 months after the start of the voyage.