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Article: Cape Horn beckons round-the-world sailor to the site of disaster. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 1, 1995
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When he sails past Cape Horn at the tip of South America a couple of weeks from now, Steve Pettengill will spend some time reminiscing with his old dog, Frodo, who for 15 years was his partner in adventures ranging from cross-country flying trips to building a business.
The last time the former Belding, Mich., trucking company owner rounded the famed and feared Cape in 1990, he scattered Frodo's ashes on those same seas that once floated another famous puppy: the good ship Beagle that carried Charles Darwin around the world and gave rise to an idea that was to shake science and theology alike, the modern concept of evolution.
At 4 p.m. last Saturday _ 8 a.m. ...