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Article: Fedor Konyukhov plays Russian roulette at Cape Horn.(news)
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- Offshore Yachting
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Cape Horn certainly lived up to its reputation on March 12 as Russian adventure sailor Fedor Konyukhov swept through Drake's Passage, pushed by 50-65 knot westerlies. The infamous Cape marks the spiritual half way stage in Fedor's trail-blazing solo circumnavigation around the Antarctica Cup Racetrack and these storm-force winds, coupled with the 135 million cubic metres of water that run each second through the 500-nautical mile wide funnel that divides the South Pacific from the South Atlantic, makes these the most feared waters in the world.
"The storm came upon me very suddenly and very hard," said Konyukhov. "I knew it was coming and hoped the winds would ...