True, yes... but imagine what it was like for the 16th century ships, to traverse these seas, below the roaring forties. Drake and others could well tell us something about that...
@wkruit1 Sorry, I was just venting frustration. Not specifically directed at the creator of this video, but there are too many great videos on youtube that have been ruined by a soundtrack.
Ambient sound is something that folks never complain about. It's too bad the music choice was what it is. The debris in the water, 2:50- 3:20 caught my eye, and I was thinking that this is probably one the few near coastal waters, where you don't have to worry about fowling one's prop in crab-pots.
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 Calling me a liar, Champ? well I am calling you a fucking know nothing idiot!!!! Better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to open ones yap and remove all doubt. I am 78. my father was born in 1888, he was at sea at a young age and left when steamships took over. Try a new experience, think before you open you gormless yap.
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 garland rem the turd, unfortunately my reply to you was taken down. Yes my father would be 144 in November if he were alive, no lying, he sailed the Cape many times. I am 78 with a 11 yo daughter, maybe in 50 years time she can say her father shvelled coal on steam locomotives without being called a liar. Your Lol, is that a self desciption? Little old lady?
I'll bet a lot of great stories. All sailors have them. I had the pleasure of sitting next to a merchant mariner on a plane going to catch his ship out of Baltimore. A 2 hour flight felt like 15 minutes he had so many great stories.
Cape Horn National Park, Chile - The most beautiful country in terms of nature. Easter Island and ALMA observatory as well are part of this country. Land of volcanos, glaciers, deserts and geysers.
A delightfully peaceful video, ideal watching just before sleeping. I have no idea why people hate the music 'cos _as soon as I saw the Channel name,_ I put *_MUTE ON_*
Looks somewhat calm to me. On a trip to New York, ship Bremen 12/6/60, we encountered wind force 12. At a table for 12 I was the only customer (I was young then). When the waves came sideways the boat would slide down the wave in 3 steps. Luckily the boat had stabilizers to keep it from rolling side to side. When the waves where head-on it was a roller coaster ride. We arrived a day late.
You were on the Bremen? That must have been amazing. I wish some of the real liners were still around. Was born in the 80s so I missed out on the liner era sadly.
If you passed through the Irminger Sea on that route, it rivals Cape Horn as one of the most treacherous seas in the world and responsible for countless shipwrecks over the centuries. Cape Horn (the region of this video) has lost over 10K sailors over the centuries and named the Ends of the Earth.
@@sstritmatter2158 I don't think we were that far North coming from Bremerhaven to NY. But our entire trip in December was a minimum of windforce 10 starting in the Channel. I marvel at how the pilot got off the ship with the pilotboat disappearing in the swells completely, including the mast.
Personally I like the video with the music. Instead of griping about it, folks, why not simply turn the volume down ( or off ), go find another video without sound, or make your own video? Just sayin... .
I talked to an old merchant mariner about that once. He said he preferred them because he would batten it down and just wait out the storm. I'd be very sick in the cubby going through seas like that for who knows how long being just like inside a corked bottle on the sea. Imagine.
@@sstritmatter2158 Imagine indeed! I think of that guy Bullimore who spent what must have seemed an eternity in his upside down vessel in the Southern Ocean before that extraordinary rescue operation by the Royal Australian Navy.
Why spoil these kind of videos with music. Better to hear the sound of the seas and the boat smashing into the swells. Surely. Makes the experience more realistic.
There was a guy that did it solo and wrote 'racing the ice to anarctica' a book I can't find anywhere. He later went solo in a 14 footer and was never heard from again
Been reading about 18th & 19th century sailing lately, mind blowing this is what they would have had to contend with. How did anyone do it?…list your favorite books, videos below about the old sailing days
Expect you have already seen 'Around Cape Horn' 1929... so interesting. You needed to be fit and strong to cope.. Even the Ship's dog was hard as nails in that footage.
Anson's Voyage Around The World. Their passage around the Horn was terrible. For the few survivors it was worth it, as they captured the Manilla Galleon, and the Prize Money made all of them rich men for life. They lost near on a thousand men to Scurvy though.
Skeletons on the Zahara was very good about a crew out of Connecticut in early American days. They wrecked around the Horn of Africa and were taken as slaves. Amazing true story - worth the read. If you life true adventure give it a go, I am sure you'll like it.
Yes if your boat is big enough to do so....otherwise 1/4ing the waves off the bow port or starboard is dependent on intended direction and boat build.....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠
The Ends of the Earth and among the treacherous seas of the world - over 10K sailors have lost their lives in this sea. I like Gordon Lightfoot's song Ghost of Cape Horn. RIP.
Why do people insist on adding overly loud crap music to their videos? Most of the time you can't hear what people are saying because the sound man has the music level far too high.
.....and you're stuck in your inboard cabin with Covid-19! At this point, life pretty much sucks and the best choice is jumping overboard! Besides, they want me to pay for cocktails!
I've been in the same and worse (a 12, this is a 9, 10 at most) in a full rigged ship, a barquentine and a 4 mast barque in the Atlantic over a 45 year career in sail although a sustained 8 in the Med was the most frightening with very steep seas. That sea looks worse only because he is heading straight into it. yes it's windy but the sea state is manageable. As for the Horn in the 17th century Mr B Weaver, piece of cake West to East! They certainly wouldn't make any progress in this weather the other way!
