Antarctica - Rounding Cape Horn 

the limitations of the microphone, even with it being high-quality recording equipment, fail to capture the total deafening sound of ocean wind, but they definitely come pretty close.

This is cape horn 😂

No it's just nice hearing the sounds and no music

What?? You don’t like drone shots and crappy techno music over it?

Currently reading The Wager which brought me to this video!

What language were they speaking.

Buck ey Mid-Atlantic Porpoise

@@PurpleObscuration most small boat sailors are familiar with the sound of the water passing by the keel below them. It is easiest to hear when you're a bit forward (down below). The actual sound is identical to a large group of people conversing, like at a party. The "screaming" sound may be the gooseneck, a squeaky sheave or who knows what...but that's the way the thousands of souls who met their end in these waters tend to vocalize. The worse the weather, the more they love to ride along for a spell. Makes it easier to stay awake when you're on watch, too.

Too close.

0:02 the beaten down, weathered look of a man who has gone too far south and misses the warmth of the equator.

You are correct, that is a relatively good day , I have honestly been in far worse just going from Rangitoto to great barrier island in the hauraki gulf in North Island ,NZ. To be fair they were traveling with the weather which is usually easier.

lake superior gets like an ocean during storms also!

@MrGoodkat read an interview with an old salt in a 1948 nat geo issue. he said when they left Australia bound for England loaded with wheat. in the forties the captain put the low side of the deck below the water line and it stayed that way until they cleared south america and headed north to England

@@juliebyrne9131 agree,i always look the DULUTH WEB CAM in the harbour,i saw Superior lake surface with ice,waves,wind as a stormy ocean! Cheers from Italy!!

I've been down there on a rough day. Our destroyer pulled in and let us have liberty, 350 navy ship. It got rough, so rough that the destroyer abandoned us and told us to find a place to sleep and we'll get picked up when it's safe. I was on shore for 2 days. When they came and got us, it was probably still 15 foot swells. We rode back in the ships zodiac, in the swells, it was freaky and a lot of people threw up. I remember the swells were splashing a cliff and on to the highway that lay on top, must have been 100' up to that point.

Bull Hippo More stable than the crew...

@grodhagen running with the wind in these seas is far more unstable than tacking into wind. It is sometimes an out of control sleigh ride. If you rounded up you would be in serious trouble in that sea.

crew's more stable than I would be. that looks too cold and too windy for my tastes, I'll stick with the sub-tropics

That's what she said.

cant you thnk of any thing else?

Yup. To short

That's because those balls of steel became too heavy to hold with one hand

The hospital bed is for me with a head full of my life's adventures... and believe me. there's been plenty

valid point

Aye mate, well said. A toast to you.

Yes we all want that. For most of us it doesn't work out.

I want to both at the same time.

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You just get a glimpse of a deeply reefed main and maybe a furled headsail. Yes, very well balanced.

That's how I usually leave my winch handles too - ready to be used in the winches and not needing to grabbed from somewhere else, put in place in a hurry and likely dropped. Yes, they get in the way somewhat and ropes can get tangled on them, but overall it's better to leave them where they're used than shipping them inboard every time they're not. The folks on this boat know what they're doing.

Why? Fin keel is just as practical.

It depends on which direction they are going around Cape Horn. Against the wind it would even with these conditions not so comfortable.... ;-)

U only want to go with the current around the horn going west is what they call the wrong way

Excellent quote!

pdutube Many thanks, but it came rather naturally, as The Bounty is one of my favourite films and perhaps Sir Anthony Hopkins finest hour....

i posted the same thing before i saw yours ; totally brilliant scene "are you a coward "

morrisonreed1 is that what you are Mr Christian? Or did he ask Adams that question? Totally brilliant dialogue either way 😉

"are you frightened to go around the horn mr Christian are you a coward to sir"

It is relatively shallow in comparison to the oceans either side. Also it's narrow gap between Antartica and the tip of South America and with the predominant winds and currents forced down the west coast through a small space you get the fearsome conditions Cape Horn is notorious for.