Yeah, I sailed with Henk also, was a great trip. Would be greatly interested
in seeing your pics, as I'm sure most of the folks here would. I used a
digital with a handful of 35 mm from a waterproof cam, I inadvertently
erased a whole flashcard worth of images from our last stop, I believe it
was Wollaston, still haven't figured out how I erased the images. Ignore
that commentary from what's his name, post up more pics.
John Cairns
"William K. Spence, Ph.D." wrote in message
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John,

I put the site up in July of 2001, a couple of months after returning from
Ushuaia simply to have a place to document that trip and others that I
have
made. you could have found it using Google. Would have put it up earlier,
but immediately after returning, I spent about three weeks sailing my
boat,
the Wild Goose, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, and then back to Panama
City.
That trip is also documented on the site (the two "Log of the Wild Goose"
links).

As for the timing of the post, I rarely check the news groups unless I'm
looking for information. I made the post the post a few days ago simply to
see if anyone was interested in seeing photos of Cape Horn and the Beagle
Channel because I thought they were worth seeing.

If you read any of the commentary, you'll see that I do mention that this
was a charter and that there were five of us: the owner and captain of the
Sarah Vorwerk, Henk Boersma; my daughter, Tiffany Hanson; Edith, an
Austrian
woman; and Klaus, a German fellow. The site was not to promote this
particular charter captain, although I highly recommend him and his boat.

I also have a video of our sail around Cape Horn taken by Klaus and
provided
to me for reproduction and shipping costs. I had planned to put it on the
site, not for me to watch, but to share some sense of what it is like to
be
there in person. Since I made the post, I've had some good feedback and a
couple of strange comments which, frankly, appear to come from someone
with
an identity pathology.

RE my boat: Although the Wild Goose is classified as an Ocean Racer (on
old
Morgan O/R 45), and has proven to hold up well in really bad weather and
big
seas, it would be foolhardy to take it to that part of the world without
understanding the dangers down there. The Wild Goose is built like a tank,
but it is also made of fiberglass. The Sarah Vorwerk was steel -- and we
did
hit a few rocks and little bergs that would do serious damage to a
fiberglass hull but did nothing to the Sarah V. Also, after running the
gauntlet of breakers and current a couple of times to get through a few
narrow channels to the Southern Ocean, I was damned glad we had a steel
boat
and a 140 hp engine with a 30" prop. Although, if you hit the rocks (which
is all there is adjacent to the Southern Ocean) it wouldn't make much
difference what you were in, your ass would be under water in short order.

Best regards,

Spence