Bjarni Herjólfsson, blown off course hunting for Greenland, saw the North American coast, looked at it, and declined to land — he was after his father, not a shore. Leif bought the ship off him later. Then the Restauration: 52 people on a 54-foot sloop, fourteen weeks out of Stavanger to New York, a baby born somewhere mid-Atlantic, 1825 on the papers.
Inés — the butternuts at L'Anse aux Meadows always get me. Juglans cinerea doesn't grow anywhere near Newfoundland; nearest stands are well south, down around the Gulf of St Lawrence. Somebody walked or sailed a long way past the camp and brought nuts home.
Inés, she was only about 39 tons — a little sloop, and 52 people aboard her. New York's port authorities fined her for carrying too many, which seems a hard way to be greeted after fourteen weeks and a baby born on the way.