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Originally Posted by marki
Man could you imagine attacking seas like that in one of the early sailing ships?? Man those guys must have been either very brave or very dumb. I hate going on boats, always lose my sense of equilibrium but I never yak  .
Ciao Mark |
Hi,
They were very very brave. They all knew the loss rate around Cape Horn for instance.
There is a book "The War with Cape Horn", by Alan Villiers, in which he describes one of those big Cape Horn sailing ships just sailing straight under, and not reappearing, under the pressure of the wind and waves. One minute weathering it OK, the next sailing on for the bottom of the sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufNzu...eature=related
Cheers