Sailing "under" South America, especially near the infamous Cape Horn, is one of the most feared routes in maritime history. Ships dread this passage due to unpredictable weather, massive waves, ...

Drake Passage sits between South America’s Cape Horn, Chile, and Antarctica’s ... that has killed so many travelers and ...

Captain Bill Pinkney, the second African American man to sail around the world solo and the first via Cape Horn, has died in ... almost got run over by a big ship, it’s all adversity, but ...

The ships in the squadron lost sight of one another while rounding the notoriously deadly Cape Horn, with its “pulverizing ... “It was the great enigma of the Age of Sail,” Grann writes ...

as she tries to outmaneuver the latest storm to cross her path as she approaches Cape Horn. Instead of sailing directly for the tip of South America, she's spent the past day heading north in an ...

There’s lots of big weather descriptions, which endear me to ships at sea books. “It’s galing outside and feels especially lonely. It’s Jan. 5 and we are about 450 miles from Cape Horn ...