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	Cape Horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cape Horn is the most southerly of the great capes, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world.
		Cape Horn was originally given the Dutch name "Kaap Hoorn", in honour of the Dutch city of Hoorn; in a typical example of false friends, the Horn became known in English as "Cape Horn", and in Spanish as "Cabo de Hornos" (which literally means "Cape of Ovens").
		Perilous Cape Horn, by P.J. Gladnick; from eSsortment, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Horn (3467 words)

	NAUTICALweb - Cape Horn the terrible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cape Horn, loved and hated by seamen over the last four hundred years, was named after Hoorn, a small calm town of the Netherlands, not far from Amsterdam, where Willem Corneliszoon Schouten was born.
		Yet, Cape Horn is the most noble symbol of navigation and rounding it approximately twenty times on board the ocean tugboat of the Chilean Army, the ATF Galvarino, has been one of the most exciting experiences that a sailor and lover of the sea as I am might wish.
		Cape Horn was calm, sly and well disposed, maybe because of the tribute of the seamen who threw their underwears in the sea, in a sort of counter-spelling habit that this time seems to have worked.
	www.nautica.it /charter/capehorn.htm (1767 words)

	Horn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horn (Chinese constellation), a constellation in Chinese astronomy
		Devil horns is a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries.
		Horn (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Haelen
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horn_(disambiguation) (397 words)

	Cape Horn Article
		The reputation Cape Horn weather with 100 knot winds, mountainous seas and snow storms in ;high summer may seem like exaggerations, but they have foundation in a record of shipwrecks that is substantial.
		Horn Island, only five miles long across a northwest/southwest axis and 1400feet high is part of the Hermite Group and is typical in form and vegetation with all the islands in these archipelagos.
		The classic aspect of Cape Horn, the one that is photographed and celebrated is the cliff face on ;the southern headland.
	www.pelagic.co.uk /charter/capeart.htm (4103 words)

	Cape Horn to Starboard
		Cape Leewin, The Cape of Storms, Cape Hope, over the next years we sailed past each, encountering stormy weather to reach them, but nylon drifter weather as each cape lay on our beam.
		With Cape Horn only 40 miles to the south we eased sheets to turn and reach toward the shelter of the Beagle, attempt number one behind us.
		For some it is the lure of the ultimate sailing challenge, Cape Horn; to others it's the adventure of navigating thousands of miles of only partially charted Chilean Canals; others seek a different route from ocean to ocean.
	landlpardey.com /CapeHorn.html (4858 words)

	Around Alone Report March 2- Cape Horn Trophy Winners
		One way to tell the significance of rounding Cape Horn is that each skipper has mentioned it in e-mail reports upon rounding.
		The Cobo de Hornos, Cape Horn, or Horny, or "the rock at the end of the world", is less than 10 miles away looming large to port with the other islands scattered around on the horizon.
		Perhaps the ultimate summation of Cape Horn was give by the Class II winner of the 94-95 Around Alone.
	www.torresen.com /aroundalone/leg3/capehorn.htm (993 words)

	Cape Horn to Starboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cape Horn is a private headland, a personal grail.
		The ghosts of Cape Horn tested my mettle, first by turning us back with a vicious gale and foul currents in the Le Maire Strait, and then, as we approached the Horn, by sending the barometer on a free fall, from 1005 rnillibars to 973 millibars 12 hours later.
		I expected to be swallowed up in a monumental Cape Horn tempest, a “snorter like the one that drove Drake’s sistership Marigold to the bottom of the sea.
	www.yayablues.com /capehorn.htm (1157 words)

	Aqua Tech Marine Inc. - Florida's own Cape Horn boats are made for fishing.
		Cape Horn ties the skin, stringers, hatches, and decks into one single unit.
		The Cape Horn Boat Company now produces 10 models and do a limited production of 400 boats a year, which is the only real way to assure quality and integrity.
		All Cape Horn boats are designed and developed in-house from the drawing board to the wood prototype.
	www.aquatechmarineinc.com /boats/capehorn (383 words)

	Cape Horn - boats.com
		The Cape Horn 19 is an offshore boat that fits better in the 21-foot to 22-foot class of boats.
		The Cape Horn 21’s high strength/deep-V hull is made to handle anything thrown as it.
		From the Cape Horn 31's molded top decks to the keel of it's deep-v hull, you will find nothing but first class flush hardware, large fuel tanks, multiple livewells and a finish like no other Cape Horn to date.
	www.boats.com /new-boats/capehorn/index.jsp (398 words)

	Columbia Gorge: Cape Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cape Horn is a viewpoint on the Lewis and Clark Trail Highway; it is almost directly across the Columbia from Multnomah Falls.
		In the lower photo, Beacon Rock is clearly visible in the upper left-hand quadrant, and a sailboat is moored in the lower right-hand quadrant.
		Cape Horn was first photographed in 1867 by Carleton Watkins, foremost photographer of the Pacific Coast area in his time.
	www.dlmark.net /gorgecap.htm (202 words)

	Cape Horn Dealers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Cape May Lighthouse is a major attraction for many visitors to the area, the park’s constantly changing shoreline, dunes, freshwater coastal marsh and ponds, forested islands and varied uplands make it a well-known location for viewing the fall bird migration.
		Cape Cod Charters is owned and operated by Captain Ed Cestaro and is based out of North Eastham, Massachusetts, although all of the Outer Cape and the surrounding waters are Cape Cod Charter's "playground." Ed is your personal guide for all fishing trips.
		Cape Meares provides an excellent view of the largest colony of nesting common murres (the site is one of the most populous colonies of nesting sea birds on the continent).
	www.iboats.com /dealers/m/cape_horn.html (4305 words)

	Last blow round Cape Horn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cape Horn lies in Latitude 55º 58’ 28’’ South, Longitude 67º 17’ 20’’ West of Greenwich and marks the point where the Atlantic and Pacific meet.
		She would be home before we reached Cape Horn and outward-bound again before we arrived in Falmouth but life on her would be dull and uninteresting.
		As if passing the Horn was the herald of better things, or perhaps just being kind to the last of the square-riggers, the weather became warm and favourable winds were the rule and not the exception.
	www.caphorniers.cl /rafaga/last_blow.htm (1644 words)

	Cape Horn at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The cape was first rounded on January 26, 1616 by a Dutch expedition of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire.
		Cape Horn is famous for the weather conditions that made it difficult to round in the days of sailing ships.
		Even so, the open waters of the Drake Passage south of the Cape meant plenty of sea room for maneuvering, while the narrow Strait of Magellan through the Tierra del Fuego islands could be a slow and tortuous passage.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Cape_Horn.html (261 words)

	Cape Horn & Fjords South America - Cruise Reivews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the past, navigating the rough waters of Cape Horn used to be one of the most feared coastal voyages in the world.
		Cape Horn, a promontory in southern Chile in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, marks the southernmost point of South America.
		The cape was named for Hoorn (the Netherlands), the birthplace of Dutch navigator Willem Cornelis Schouten who, in 1616, was the first to sail around the cape.
	www.cruise-reviews.com /port_info/port_detail.asp?fPortID=355 (1069 words)

	Cape Horn
		Whether in the large, undermanned square-riggers of the last days of commercial sail, or in small yachts dwarfed by the waves, sailors have always found rounding Cape Horn to be the ultimate test of seamanship.
		The Last Time Around Cape Horn, The historic 1949 voyage of the windjammer Pamir, by William F. Stark, Ordinary Seaman.
		Cape Horn, the Logical Route by Bernard Moitessier.
	www.pilothousecharts.com /capehorn.htm (412 words)

	Svenska Aktieinstitutet/PUSSYCAT CAPE HORN
		Sailing round Cape Horn is normally a both extremely difficult and dangerous task.
		Cape Horn is a rocky island, two times one mile, at the bottom of the Patagonian archipelago on the most southern tip of South America.
		But on arrival at Cape Horn in the afternoon of December 31, 1994, the New Year´s Eve, the wind and waves suddenly calmed, the clouds vanished and revealed the midsummer sun enlightening the deadly ugly Devil´s Tooth south of the Horn.
	www.bekab.se /english/pussycatcapehorn.htm (689 words)

	Itinerary - Cape Horn 5 days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DAY ROUNDING CAPE HORN (55°50'S / 67°18'W) "The classic aspect of Cape Horn is the cliff face to the southern headland.
		"Cape of the ultimate challenge" - many destinies and catastrophes have taken place here - symbol for the end of the world.
		At the navy control post we can pick up our Cape Horn certificate - we can make a splendid trekking up to the 'Pico de Bandera' from where we get a tremendous view across the Beagle Channel - we exchange our experiences with the other yachts around - yachtlife.
	www.sarahvorwerk.com /itinerary_cape_horn_5_days.htm (240 words)

	Agamemnon Films - Cruising Cape Horn - article by Fraser Heston
		To navigate a small craft around the Cape and through the islands of the archipelago immediately to the north of it is one of the most challenging and exciting experiences a yachtsman can ask for.
		Having heard all the stories of the most fearsome cape in the world and read all the books about the ghosts of Cape Horn we were so full of Cape Horn legend that I, for one, simply did not know what to expect.
		Off the Horn there are gales Force 8 or more one day in four in spring, and one day in eight in summer.
	www.agamemnon.com /yachting.html (2803 words)

	Horn, Cape on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HORN, CAPE [Horn, Cape] headland, 1,391 ft (424 m) high, S Chile, southernmost point of South America, in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego.
		Alone around the Horn; a Cape Horn kayak expedition was no paddle in the park.
		ETA Cape Horn 3rd January; Hoping to recoup recent losses; Happy New Year.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Horn-C1ap.asp (748 words)

	Funagain Games: Cape Horn
		Cape Horn plays reasonably quickly, but assessing the best route to a particular nautical station is not quite as straightforward as sometimes seems, and caused our group a few cranky moments.
		Author Thorsten Gimmler was probably born of the sea, and Cape Horn might be his lifetime's work.
		The true decision making of 'Cape Horn' is saving and using your 'sail points' at the right time to pounce ahead of your opponents.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=006645/~affil=SUBV (1357 words)

	Rob Duncan's Quest for Cape Horn
		To have rounded the Horn and survived is the ultimate test of a sailor - the nautical equivalent of climbing Mount Everest.
		To get around Cape Horn, it is necessary to descend into the Southern Ocean, into the "roaring 40s" and "screaming 50s" of south latitude.
		In honour of rounding Cape Horn, sailors are "permitted to wear a golden hoop earring in their left ear".
	www.robduncan.net /capehorn.htm (741 words)

	CNN.com - Sailing and surviving Cape Horn - Jun. 4, 2003
		Todd: Cape Horn nears as Europa enters the Drake Passage and a moment of silence is proposed to honor the 10,000 souls who were lost here.
		Proffering his diamond stud earring into the sea, he replaces it with the gold hoop of the Cape Horn sailor, a tradition started when seamen wore the gold hoop to pay for a decent burial if lost at sea and washed ashore.
		Todd: Further, he declares that, traditionally, a sailor of 10 times around the Horn is entitled to red tattoos on the forehead, thus promising the bearer drink at shore-side pubs for his natural lifetime.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/06/03/savvyt.tall.ship (967 words)

	Cape Horn Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Judy has been involved with Cape Horns from the inception and continues to keep track of the yachts and their owners.
		If you are interested in a currently cruising Cape Horn Yacht, Judy usually knows which may be for sale or coming to the market.
		One of our favorites, she was the first Cape Horn we saw and she sold us.
	www.anjumal.com /cape_horn_gallery.htm (297 words)

	Cape Horn -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Similar to the water buffalo of Asia, the Cape buffalo is massive, fl, and sparsely haired, standing up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) at the shoulder, with bulls weighing up to about 900 kg (2,000 pounds).
		In the south the Chono, Alacaluf, and Yámana Indians occupied the whole Chilean archipelago southward to Cape Horn.
		Dana's intention in writing was to show “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is” and to expose the abuses endured by his fellow sailors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041068?tocId=9041068 (806 words)

	Tonite: Cape Horn - Around The World Of Sailing
		As Orange II rounds the Horn, she will also be setting a new record time for the Pacific crossing between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn, set by Peyron's previous boat, Orange I, in 2002.
		Previously he passed the infamous cape on his two winning journeys for the Jules Verne Trophy, in 1993 on board Commodore Explorer and in 2002 on board Orange I. The weather conditions forecast for tonight's rounding of the Horn look clement with 25-knot westerly winds.
		Ushant - Cape Horn in 32 days: Honestly, it is a bit difficult to realise, as in general after thirty days, we would be off New Zealand.
	www.torresen.com /sailing/content_archives/002663.php (1248 words)

	International Association of Cape Horners home page
		The International Association of Cape Horners is for sailors who have rounded Cape Horn.
		The rounding of the Horn will have been part of a non-stop passage under sail of at least 3000 nautical miles.
		Their course must have passed through the latitude of fifty degrees south both west and east of Cape Horn.
	www.capehorners.org (86 words)

	CAPE HORN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cape Horn marks the dividing line between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic to the east.
		The Cape is the southernmost point of a not-very-large island and therefore is not part of the landmass of South America being separated from Tierra del Fuego by the Beagle Channel.
		In the days of sail to have rounded Cape Horn entitled a sailor to put one foot on the table when out drinking.
	www.twinpin.demon.co.uk /capehorn.htm (186 words)

	Cape Horn
		Le Maire had two reasons to be optimistic that there was passage south of the Strait of Magellan between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
		Torres had passed through these waters in the same year as the Duyfken cruise, but his report was buried in Spanish archives and unseen by the remainder of the contemporary sailing world.
		The new path around Cape Hoorn was recognized and the East India Company was ordered to return the vessel and its cargo to the Australia Company, paying all expenses and interest since its taking.
	www.muffley.net /pacific/dutch/maire.htm (780 words)

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