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Old 07-04-2007, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Howitzer View Post
There is a Whitbread video about rounding the horn which I packed away somewhere I should find it and upload it to YouTube.
This ones pretty good:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6703499330176739220&q=rounding+cape+horn&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

The die hard racers are nuts. You round the upwind mark it could be blowing 30++ knots, if one boat pops the shoot everyone does. Then its hang on for dear life so you don't broach. But sometimes you do, then the carbon fiber spinniker pole goes BOOM.
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