Hi Georgs- I don't know any details, and I don't know if the PO will provide them, but I will ask when he is again in communication. He is currently cruising in Alaska on his new Diesel Duck which was built by Townsend Bay Marine in Pt. Townsend. A first for them, I understand. Here is what I do know: Following 8 summers cruising in the Maritimes, Labrador and Greenland, the PO took the boat (then named 10&2) thru the Canal and up to Port Townsend, WA, where she had been launched in 1985 as Brendan. Following a refit at TBM in 2002 which included replacing the 4-71 with a Lugger 668D, she was sea trialed in the Queen Charlottes and along the Alaskan coast. The next summer, 2003, he and his wife and two other couples departed Pt. Townsend and coasted south along the west coast of N & S America. After spending about a month exploring the Chilean canals and fijords they arrived in Pto. Williams and waited for a wx window to jump out and round the Horn. The day they accomplished this the seas were only 6 feet and 20 knots of breeze, but when they arrived back in port it was blowing 60 knots. When they got another window, they went on to the Falklands, and on passage there they ran dead slow for many hours while 20' breaking head seas thumped onto the forward half of the boat and PH. He told me that was the worst part of the entire passage - evidently it is shallow there, hence the breakers. They spent about a month in the Falklands (and loved it) before heading for Brazil. One night while 20 miles off the Argentine coast the port paravane caught the anchor rode of an unlit fishing boat. This woke everyone up on both boats, and after much shouting they untangled and went on their way on one wing, so to speak as the port outrigger was bent in two. (this was due to insufficient foreguys which has since been rectified). On to Brazil and then Trinidad which is where I met them in May of 2004. His home town and mine are the same, and he stopped noticed the hailing port on the Westsail and stopped by to say hello. They went north up the chain to the VI and then back thru the Bahamas to Norfolk where I joined for the rest of the way back to Wickford, RI. This latter part was done thru the Chessie/Delaware and then offshore to New York City and up the Sound. I bought the boat in August of that year. That's about all the details I know. Regards, John "Seahorse" In a message dated 7/27/2007 12:01:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com writes: Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:07:32 -0400 From: Georgs Kolesnikovs <waterworld@rogers.com> Subject: [PUP] Cape Horn passage, was Storm panels over saloon windows To: Passagemaking Under Power List <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Message-ID: <p062408f2c2ce3052a373@[10.0.1.199]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >John of Seahorse wrote: > >That's what the PO did on his C. Horn passage from Washington State to >Rhode Island. When you have some time, John, how about filling us in on the particulars of that long passage? --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Water World Productions, formerly Trawler World Productions Custom Magazines + Special Events + Internet Forums ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour