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Rough seas around Cape Horn???


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It can be very rough...........or not. We had huge seas out of the Falklands heading for Cape Horn, then it calmed down. If you are a reader, you might check out some stories of the sailing ships of old and their travels around the Horn - imagine having to climb the rigging covered with ice, snow falling, and huge seas - exciting stuff. I was delighted to be in a nice cruise ship with no rigging - the "old" Royal Princess.

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We have been around Cape Horn 3 out of the last 4 years on the Star Princess. Always around the Christmas holidays. We have never had rough seas, last year was the smoothest ever.

 

You take your chances in that part of the world.

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We did Cape Horn in March of 2008 on Infinity. Seas were indeed rough that day. Our planned route was to go round the Cape (we were westbound), but the Captain decided to sail to the point of the Cape, stayed in the calmer waters, did doughnuts in place for about 30 minutes so that all sides of the ship could see, then he reversed course, and went back north and took a protected course north of the island.

Liz

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Great cruise and very nice day around the Cape Horn. It was cold and heavy coat, hat, gloves, long socks etc. were all appreciated. The beautiful part were thousands of birds soaring with bright sunlight on them. Hubby got great great pictures from 8th deck (upper promenade) right by lifeboat 1 of the Star Princess. One of the better days of cruising:D

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The north Atlantic in winter and the area around Cape Horn are probably two of the most notorious places on water for bad weather. Course, that said, this last winter, we had pretty decent weather, little bit of rain/sleet/snow, but seas were flat. Part of me felt somewhat cheated out of my Cape Horn experience :).

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Actually I would peg the odds at around 75%.

 

Keith

 

You have the 3 massive oceans and currents come together. Add a shoal of a underwater mt range and you have more than enough energy. Id say 80 to 90% Its why they built the Panama canal !

 

The currents, where they collide is so powerful that fish from the atlantic cant swim into the pacific And along with the currents come winds, to hurricane force...gale force is common. This is too, like the gulf of Alaska to then north, the place where storms are born.

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You have the 3 massive oceans and currents come together. Add a shoal of a underwater mt range and you have more than enough energy. Id say 80 to 90% Its why they built the Panama canal !

 

Pretty sure that they built the canal to same time and distance, more than for the rough seas.

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