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Article: Storm splits Cape Horn club New wave Britons rebel against `die- hard' sailors
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 10, 1996
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THE MOST intrepid branch of the international sailing community
is split. British yachtsmen in modern boats who have rounded Cape
Horn have formed a breakaway movement to celebrate their
achievement - to the fury of traditional "square riggers".
Some 200 British sailors have been consistently refused entry to
the elite International Association of Cape Horners because they
voyaged on modern vessels.
The band of "new Horners" had been paying annual membership to
the British section of the IACH, which backed their right to be
members. But the international committee has repeatedly refused to
accept them.
When their final appeal for membership was turned down at the
recent annual general ...