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Sailing the Cape Horn (southern tip of South America) is both dangerous and exciting, with many comparing it to climbing Mount Everest. It takes around 65 days or more to motor sail around South America, including stops at ports.
May 18, 2022 · Sailing around Cape Horn is often noted as the yachting equivalent to climbing Mount Everest. Is it safe? Of course, it can be accomplished safely by a well-founded boat with an experienced and careful crew. But sailing around Cape Horn is not for the faint of heart. The Cape has a deservedly fierce reputation.
Written by Helene Spurkeland. A unique opportunity to sail around the infamous Cape Horn on board one of the biggest and fastest tall ships in the world! A part of The One Ocean Expedition, Statsraad Lehmkuhl´s circumnavigation of the globe 2021- 2023. Sailing around «The Horn» is one of the greatest challenges for adventurous sailors.
Cape Horn, the southerly headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, is at 56 degrees south – which makes sailing around Cape Horn especially difficult. When gale force winds and huge waves hit, even the most experienced sailors need their wits about them.
Jun 25, 2021 · Sailing through the Beagle Channel, with looming glaciers on either side. I stood on the viewing deck and thought about icebergs and the Titanic as we sipped on brandy laced coffee and shivered in the cold air. We did it! Rounded the cape and earned all the privileges of being “Cape Horners”.
Scenic Cruising Cape Horn. It may be the most notorious ocean passage in the world, and for centuries it evoked dread in the hearts of sailors. But those who survived a trip around Cape Horn, where the Atlantic and Pacific slosh violently into each other, had bragging rights for life. Along this passage, the Tierra del Fuego, or "land of fire ...
Like an ascent of Mount Everest, sailing around Cape Horn earns you a place amongst the elite and with good reason. Often wreathed in fog and smashed by towering seas, the southern-most headland of Cape Horn Island marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans collide.
