The last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, talk by Susan Maltin, March 25th.
If you are not going to the David Heathtalk in Horsington Church on Friday 25th March, why not find out more about going round Cape Horn in a sailing ship and come to the Wincanton History Society talk, also on Friday 25th March, at 7.30pm in the Balsam Centre in Wincanton
Imagine being are 200 feet above the sea, hanging on by your knees, furling a sail with a boiling sea below, seeing waves come towering up 60 feet high, black and formidable mountains of water with snarling toppling crests. And this is after your living quarters have been full of water for days, you are wet through and cold, and there are huge hailstones being hurled at you, with danger of icebergs. This is the life of a sailor on Passat, as she approached Cape Horn. Susan Maltin’s talk will reveal all from her father’s diaries.
The sailing ship Passat