Jimmy James
Veteran Member
I am considering a circumnavigation of South America. Starting in Cartagena heading to Panama, through the canal and making a counter clockwise voyage and ending in Cartagena. Has anyone here made this trip?
30-something years ago I went to a CCA presentation by Miles and Beryl Smeeton about rounding Cape Horn as recounted in their book "Once is Enough". They actually attempted it twice.
You'd have to be bat-**** crazy to want to do this.
Keith
I have cruised off the Peruvian coast. Why avoid it?
I think the Smeetons were an amazing couple and wrote some amazing books. They did attempt the cape west to east (the wrong way) twice with failure and on their third attempt made it setting a world record at the time for speed. Cape horn is the Everest of the sea and definitely a mountain I have no intention of rounding.