Mainstream yachting nations have produced many great authors, but as the years pass and the nautical world opens its arms to new communities, adventurers from unexpected lands are joining their number. An exceptional example is Saša Fegi? who circumnavigated recently from Croatia.
Saša’s book My Way Around the World describes his voyage with small crews in HIR 3 (Caprice in Croatian), a CAT 34 of 10.3m LOA. She’d already circumnavigated but had fallen on hard times in the Croatian war and was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel in a near-sunk state. She was rescued, then inexplicably left horribly abandoned until Saša, who had actually learned to sail on her when she was working as a school boat, found her and decided she was to be the boat to complete his dream.
We join the crew of HIR 3 having just crossed 50° North heading up for the River Plate. They’ve rounded the Horn direct from Auckland, stopped for a few drinks in Puerto Williams fulfilling the objective of the whole trip, and are now on course for home. Having just braved the Southern Ocean they’ve every right to expect a better deal than the one served up to them.
“We had officially rounded Cape Horn. A non-stop passage passing above the latitude of
