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The Reasons Leading Toward Cape Horn.
June 21, 2026 · 9 min · 3K views
What this video covers
Sven Yrvind, now 87, outlines a plan to sail a new 5.6-meter boat to Cape Horn and through the Drake Passage, targeting a January 2028 rounding.▶ 0:12 The current boat — 5.3 meters long, 1.4-meter beam — has hatches and bulkheads too small for the voyage, so he is designing a replacement: 5.6 meters long, 1.2-meter beam, described as a better-layout version of the existing hull.▶ 5:05 The tentative itinerary runs from Sweden to Vigo in summer 2026, then to Porto Santo, Madeira, and Uruguay in 2027, with a stop at Periapolis (between Montevideo and Punta Arenas) before the Cape Horn push.▶ 8:28 Yrvind notes he rounded Cape Horn in June 1980 aboard a 19-foot aluminum boat — winter in the Southern Ocean, with no satellite navigation — and cites that passage as proof small boats are capable there. iPhone GPS now replaces the celestial navigation he relied on in 1980.▶ 5:51 The Drake Passage leg is estimated at roughly three weeks.▶ 3:35 After the rounding, the plan is to return to Sweden and build the next boat, referred to as X-Lex.▶ 8:52
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