Cape Horn to Starboard

Kindle Edition , pages. Published March 1st by Burford Books first published June To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Cape Horn to Starboard , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Cape Horn to Starboard.

Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Feb 04, Brock rated it it was ok. Two stars because it's written as a long series of events, one after another, without much of a story. That said, it's inspiring nevertheless. But if you're looking for real adventure stories or even true sailing stories, there are better choices. Kretschmer sails Gigi around Cape Horn and tells a pretty good story of his journey.

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The writing about the sailing is very good, other parts not so much. May 08, Carol rated it liked it. Reading this book is like bellying up to the bar and listening to someone on a barstool who is telling you about what happened to them on the way there. Casually told, but the adventure is real.

Kevin McDonald rated it it was ok Jan 20, Larry Fullerton rated it it was amazing Feb 17, But we'd reached a quiet inlet in advance of the worst of the blow, and hunkered down there to stage our final assault on the Horn. Thirty-six hours and one new anchorage later, we set a course for Cape Horn.

In honesty, if the wind hadn't cooperated, we were ready to round it from west-to-east - to "wear ship," if you will, before backtracking and heading east.

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But the easterly breeze that filled in was icing on the cake, and we made way for the Horn on the same heading Mark had dreamed about when he drew that first circle around the American continents. At the stroke of , all out figurative stars fell into alignment: At that juncture, Mark made a surprising call: It was the highlight of the day.

Soon after, a squall appeared, and we doused the sail as quickly as we'd raised it. Anyway, the Horn was behind us and it was time to change course. He laughs as I spin around and almost miss the most significant landmark of our lives together. Then he reaches out to hug me while he points, "There she is--Cape Horn to starboard. Then I grab the sail, and wordlessly, using the familiar routines of 37 years of sailing together, we get it flying in an eight-knot southeasterly breeze that belies the reputation of this southernmost cape, where a quarter of the time winds blow at Force 8 to 12 and three-quarters of all reported winds are westerly.

Windvane set, we cavort about, throwing brightly colored bits of paper into the air to watch them drift slowly downwind toward the sparkling, sun-lit cliffs eight miles to the north. Time to get it down, before we blow it out. We need every bit of speed we can get to beat this east-going current.

John Kretschmer Sailing - Capehorn to Starboard

As I look at them, their massive hooked beaks, their elegant long wings, I recall once reading that each bird is said to bear the soul of a Cape Horn sailor whose body lies beneath these icy waters. A Dream Long Harbored I came to realize that Larry always planned to "double the Horn"--to sail east to west against the prevailing winds from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

In , when we were in Malta preparing five-ton Seraffyn for the rough weather of the Red Sea, Larry said, "Next boat we build, no cockpit to fill with seas. Then we could take it anywhere, even round the Horn. I should have linked the clues, but it was almost four years before the next one popped up. I call it insurance to make her strong enough for anything, even Cape Horn.

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After three and a half years of boatbuilding, then 15, miles of Pacific voyaging, Larry convinced me to sail south of Tasmania, ostensibly as the logical route to Western Australia. With careful weather planning and patience, we found February gave us breezes light enough to fly our nylon drifter past Maatsuyker Island, and I ignored the next clue. In the following years, we sailed past Cape Leeuwin and the Cape of Good Hope, encountering stormy weather to reach them but nylon-drifter weather as each cape lay on our beam.

When we turned north toward Europe after 12 years of voyaging on Taleisin , I relaxed.

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Fun to look at. Might be an interesting way to go home. Done Panama," Larry commented nonchalantly. Panama is fine with me. He got lucky with the weather. East Coast from Maine to Virginia, I talked of the glamour of Carnival in Trinidad and of diving in the San Blas islands near Panama, hoping to lure him back to reason.

Then I broke our cardinal rule. A sail designer and racing skipper, Monica had been captain of the first all-women team to do a major ocean race, the Transpac, and the only woman on the foot Challenger in the Whitbread Round the World Race. You can do it. We go over every single inch of this boat and upgrade everything we can think of.

That way, if we change our minds, no one will say we failed. Two periods showed slightly more favorable winds. For March and April, the pilot charts indicated a to percent chance of Force 7 to Force 12 westerly winds right on the nose , but storms near Cape Horn tended to be of shorter duration than in other months. In July and August, the charts said, storms blew 23 to 26 percent of the time and lasted longer, but almost 15 percent of all winds came from the south or southeast.

The long, dark nights and the below-freezing temperatures of the southern winter left us little choice. We felt we had to be approaching Cape Horn by March. Estrecho de le Maire presented the first major hurdle.