April 13, 2009
Sailing Around the Cape
Powerline's John Hinderaker posted this video of Irving Johnson's 1929 passage around Cape Horn in a clipper ship, noting that it gives a filmic glimpse of a long-gone era, where, apart from the motion picture camera, everything else about the voyage was straight out of centuries past.
Hinderaker points to the enormous seas that batter the Peking as it rounds the Cape, but I'm just as impressed by the devil-may-care training regime Johnson demonstrates at the film's beginning, especially the measures to ensure he'll not be paralyzed with fear when atop the towering masts.
Well worth a watch for sailors and other scurvy types.
Posted by Mike Lief at April 13, 2009 07:55 AM
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