After a rainy leave-taking from Gaspé on July 28th, the Belem arrived three days later at the French archipelago of Saint Pierre et Miquelon in brilliant sunshine.
Saint Pierre was her last port of call in the North Atlantic, on her way to the Azores. She arrived on July 31st to a warm welcome from the inhabitants, all descendants or members of French families who started settling there in the 19th century, their main occupation being fishing and salting cod.
The regional Tourist Board was ready and waiting for the trainees, at the request of the Belem Foundation who, together with local banks, was sponsoring a smashing tour of the Archipelago. This included discovering the bird life along the cliffs overlooking the sea – penguins, gray gulls, puffins – and, in the water, admiring the seals taking their digestive nap and the whales dipping and diving around the humans in their rubber dinghies.
Next day, a land tour of the islands gave visitors a general idea of the sea-faring history of the people and of their present day way of life. Meanwhile, the Belem was, as usual, welcoming aboard scores of visitors – in fact some 500 of them which amounted to about 10% of the whole population!
On Saturday August 2nd, it was time to say goodbye to this little faraway corner of France. The Belem, escorted out the harbour by a host of local boats, set course for the Azores, at long last finding a brisk South-westerly wind after three days of chugging along on the strength of her engines.
During this time, the crew and some of the trainees worked successfully at achieving a new type of sail for the Belem. Called a studding sail, it had been in use on the ship between 1896 and 1913 – when there were no engines and four of these sails were added on to increase her speed. As a matter of fact, the wind was now strong enough to propel the Belem without the help a studding sail. By Saturday 9th, the first islands of the Azores came into sight, so the Belem could take all the time she wanted to leisurely reach Ponta-Delgada on the Island of São Miguel by the Monday.
Parti de Gaspé le 28 juillet sous la pluie, le Belem arrivait trois jours plus tard sous un soleil éclatant à Saint Pierre et Miquelon, sa dernière étape dans les eaux du continent américain avant d'atteindre les Açores. Une expérience là aussi inoubliable, grâce au remarquable accueil des « cousins » français et à la découverte de l'histoire et la nature de cet archipel singulier. 
Le samedi 2 août, à contre cœur, ceux du Belem quittaient Saint Pierre pour entamer la traversée de 1500 miles vers les Açores. Dans un dernier geste d'amitié, une flottille de bateaux a escorté le trois-mâts qui, pour les saluer, a déployé toutes ses voiles dès la sortie de la baie de Saint Pierre.
