"DSK" wrote in message

hard as as it is for the Crab Crusher Mafia to swallow, fin keel boats
have sailed round Cape Horn... in fact I bet by now that more fin keelers
have...


Maxprop wrote:
Doubtful, unless you're discounting the centuries when multi-masted cargo
ships rounded the Horn in lieu of the Panama Canal, which was not yet
constructed.


Discounting them, there's no doubt at all that fin keelers would be in the
majority. Including the old commercial sailing vessels, it might be a
closer call than you think... how many rounded the Horn in a given year on
average?

I really don't have that info, but based on the quantity of East-West trade
during the 1800s and the early 1900s, I'd suspect it was in the hundreds, if
not thousands.

Anyway, it's for sure that no more are going to,

Beyond an occasional "vintage" vessel celebration, this is true.

so it's only a matter of time.

Yes. The fin keel has replaced the full keel in terms of sheer numbers, and
certainly where racing vessels, which comprise a large number of
Horn-rounders, are concerned.

Max

Max