Yachts & Yachting magazine

Cape Horn the hard way

This is me being awkward, and particular. It may seem I am splitting hairs, but I feel that in this case the terms we use are quite important.

What am I on about? To quote from my own Addicted to More

Adventure, hopefully soon to be published: ‘It always amuses me, or perhaps annoys me a little to be honest, when people sail out of

Puerto Williams or Ushuaia, sail round Cape Horn island, go back again and say they have rounded the Horn. They have not, not in the true sense of the word’. Rounding the Horn involves sailing from 50°S on one side of South America to

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