ROUNDING CAPE HORN.

Evening Star, Issue 21292, 22 December 1932, Page 11

ROUNDING CAPE HORN.

TO THE EDITOR.. Sir —I, doubtless with many other of your readers, was much interested in ■your article of a few days ago dealing with the ‘Romano© of Sail,and-the last remaining fleet of wind-d-yen ships owned by Captain Gustav hrickson. The point, however, that particularly interested me was the experience of one of the fleet, the Grace Harwar, in taking no less than five weeks to pass Cape Horn, heading not west, but east. As all old sailors will remember, this , would have been in no way remarkable had she been heading on a westerly course; in fact, vessels were often beating against the strong westerlies off the pitch of the Horn for three weeks or more, while constantly meeting other, vessel flying before the wind in the opposite direction. I should be interested to hear if any of your sailor readers have ever had a similar experience, or whether for some reason this last year the region of the “ Roaring Forties i.e., between forty and sixty degrees south latitude —showed an exceptional prevalence of easterly winds, as wo certainly experienced here in New Zealand. In closing, may I repeat the great pleasure I derived from your article dealing with this interesting reminder of a glorious past? —I am, etc., H. C. Campbell, December 21. .