We are on the eve of an important moment for the italian sail: two Italian skipper will cross near Cape Horn. Alessandro di Benedetto engaged in the Vendee Globe and Giovanni Soldini in race against time for the record New York-San Francisco.
What is Cape Horn?
Imagine waves as tall as buildings, that run for thousands of miles undisturbed. Suddenly are forced to pass through an imaginary tunnel, formed by Cape Horn itself and Antarctica. The result? A sea aggressive, turbulent and unpredictable.
Imagine an inhospitable coast consists of black cliffs that offer shelter and the cold wind coming from the south pole.
Imagine finally reaching this point, exhausted by tens of days at sea, thousands of miles away from the earth, out of the trade routes, where each issue is a potential tragedy.
The Horn portrays the end of all this, you enter in the Atlantic, you put the arrow to the left and go up north.
There are still many days of sailing on arrival, but the bow facing house, the sun, the air warmer every day make the skipper euphoric and combative.
Sergio Frattaruolo