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hbsteve

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Racing around Cape Horn
« on: March 31, 2015, 08:43:16 PM »
Four of the Volvo Ocean Racers sailed around Cape Horn today.  These sailboats easily do 20 knots.  This video is taken from the boats and a helicopter.  Fun, fast, cold and wet sailing.

https://youtu.be/Uwomhabjn3s

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Re: Racing around Cape Horn
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2015, 09:30:15 PM »
I love it. Incredible scene. Awesome boats.

Relatively calm sea conditions that day considering where they were.

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Re: Racing around Cape Horn
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2015, 05:42:01 AM »
ya--that's glassy for the roaring 40's!

love those hulls--they're the first downwind surfers. incredible engineering--surfing with all that tonnage.
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