Polish yacht - North West Passage and Cape Horn in a single journey



9:21 PM Mon 4 Apr 2011 GMT
'Solanus achievement - Polish sailors celebrate their rounding of the Horn' .
Last year the steel expedition yacht Ocean Watch completed a circumnavigation of the Americas, clockwise, and at the time it was thought they were the first yacht to achieve such a challenge. Now a Polish yacht is on its way to achieving the same challenge, anti-clockwise, and has just rounded Cape Horn. The yacht Solanus has three permanent members of crew, the skipper Bronislaw Radlinski, along with two crew, Nowak and Kantak. Other crew have joined them from time to time. Leaving Dkansk in Poland in May 2010 from their yacht club, the Polish Sports Club ...


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by Nancy Knudsen





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