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Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn?a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America?is a place of forlorn and foreboding beau.

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I owe thanks to many people for their various and valuable advice and - photo 1

I owe thanks to many people for their various and valuable advice and - photo 2

I owe thanks to many people for their various and valuable advice and assistance. They are, in no special order: Sergio Robinson, R. Natalie P. Goodall, Ernesto Piana, Mario Guerra, Christian Cid Monroy, Maurice van de Maele, Oscar Pablo Zanola, Thomas Goodall, CADIC, Nick Lansing, Wade Leftwich, David Feit, Raymond Aker, Lucy Cross, the New York Yacht Club and William Watson, Sarah Shankman, Michael Carr, Vlad Murnikov, Roy Mullender, Ross MacPhee, John Thackray, Fred Hallett, Kathy Green, Nathan Boylan, Annabella Bushra, Julia Rhl, Hank Buchanan, John Rousmaniere, Erica Goode, Liz Maguire, Megan Hustad, Rick Pracher, Rich Lane, Major John, Skip Novak, Betsy Haggerty, Lydia Wills, Steven Schwartz, Melanie Schwartz, Nick McKinney, Norman Brouwer, Steve Jaffee, Mary Hogan, Robert Hogan, and especially Eugenia Leftwich. Then of course there are my shipmates aboard Pelagic, Dick Drinkrow, David Langhorne, Tim Millhiser, Jonathan Russo, Kate Ford, and Captain Hamish Laird.

About the Author

Dallas Murphy is the author of several novels, including Lush Life and Apparent Wind, and the plays The Terrorists and The Explorers. His column on piloting and boating safety appears in Offshore magazine. Murphy, who lives in New York City, races one-designs (J-24s) on Long Island Sound and sails offshore, preferably to wild places, whenever possible.

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