[PUP] Cape Horn passage, was Storm panels over saloon windows

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Hi Georgs-
 
I don't know any details, and I don't know if the PO will provide  them, but 
I will ask when he is again in communication. He is currently cruising  in 
Alaska on his new Diesel Duck which was built by Townsend Bay Marine in Pt.  
Townsend. A first for them, I understand. Here is what I do know:
 
Following 8 summers cruising in the Maritimes, Labrador and  Greenland, the 
PO took the boat (then named 10&2) thru the Canal  and up to Port Townsend, WA, 
where she had been launched in 1985 as  Brendan. Following a refit at TBM in 
2002 which included replacing the 4-71 with  a Lugger 668D, she was sea 
trialed in the Queen Charlottes and along the Alaskan  coast. The next summer, 2003, 
he and his wife and two other couples departed Pt.  Townsend and coasted 
south along the west coast of N & S America. After  spending about a month 
exploring the Chilean canals and fijords they  arrived in Pto. Williams and waited 
for a wx window to jump out and round the  Horn. The day they accomplished this 
the seas were only 6 feet and 20 knots of  breeze, but when they arrived back 
in port it was blowing 60 knots. When they  got another window, they went on 
to the Falklands, and on passage there they ran  dead slow for many hours while 
20' breaking head seas thumped onto the  forward half of the boat and PH. He 
told me that was the worst part of the  entire passage - evidently it is 
shallow there, hence the breakers. They spent  about a month in the Falklands (and 
loved it) before heading for Brazil. One  night while 20 miles off the 
Argentine coast the port paravane caught the  anchor rode of an unlit fishing boat. 
This woke everyone up on both boats, and  after much shouting they untangled 
and went on their way on one wing, so to  speak as the port outrigger was bent 
in two. (this was due to insufficient  foreguys which has since been 
rectified). On to Brazil and then Trinidad which  is where I met them in May of 2004. 
His home town and mine are the same, and he  stopped noticed the hailing port on 
the Westsail and stopped by to say hello.  They went north up the chain to 
the VI and then back thru the Bahamas to Norfolk  where I joined for the rest of 
the way back to Wickford, RI. This latter part  was done thru the 
Chessie/Delaware and then offshore to New York City and up the  Sound. I bought the boat 
in August of that year.   
 
That's about all the details I know.
 
Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"
 
 
In a message dated 7/27/2007 12:01:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
passagemaking-under-power-request at lists.samurai.com writes:

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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:07:32 -0400
From: Georgs Kolesnikovs  <waterworld at rogers.com>
Subject: [PUP] Cape Horn passage, was Storm  panels over saloon windows
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>John of Seahorse  wrote:
>
>That's what the PO did on  his C. Horn passage from  Washington State to
>Rhode Island.

When you have some time, John,  how about filling us in on the 
particulars of that long  passage?

--Georgs
-- 
Georgs Kolesnikovs
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