Sailing to Antartica has appeal. The BT Global
Challenge is for fools begging to be parted with
their money.

"John Cairns" wrote
Tell you what, the idea really appealed to me, but there is no way I would
have the time to do it without being retired. Not to mention the fact that
it is a fair deal of $$$, more than I would be willing to spend. I don't
know how you would learn heavy weather sailing without going into heavy
weather and I suspect that a fair # of these paying crew aren't novices.

http://www.sarahvorwerk.com/

Henk used to advertise something called "heavy weather sailing training"
they would sail 250nm? out west of the cape, he doesn't do that any more,
my guess is that he didn't have enough customers. His training trips were
pretty reasonably priced, IIRC. The only comparable thing he has now is
the sail between Stanley and Ushuaia, problem is, it is very difficult and
expensive to get from here to there (Stanley).

John Cairns