All hands-- I'm certain Listees Benno and Marlene Klopfer will not mind me sharing an email they sent to George and Gail Buehler today with a CC to me: >Hi George and Gail, >It is time to celebrate. Your design, the Diesel Duck 41, just >rounded Cape Horn from the west to the east today the 19, Feb. 09 at >17:30 hrs. >Diesel Duck behaved wonderfully even in a shitty sea here at the >Horn. She always demonstrated seaworthiness and safety to us. >Diesel Ducks are good boats. You can be so proud of the Duck. We >are very proud of our Diesel Duck and we will drink a bottle of >Martini Spumante as soon as we have the hook down in a safe >anchorage tonight, following with a nice dinner. >We have to say "thank you" to Georgs Kolesnikov too, who hooked us >up with a good commercial boat yard in Canada who built a strong >aluminum duck which withstood a good pounding by working her way >toward Cape Horn. >With best wishes from >Benno and Marlene Site see: http://dieselducks.com/41%20Duck%20EVO.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2009-February/005065.html --GxK