I was quite surprised to find Irving Johnson’s classic video on Youtube of his trip around Cape Horn on one of the last commercial tall ships. Its the only video left showing the harsh life (and death) of sailors working the tall ships. Irving Johnson was a legendary sailor/adventurer and this was his first trip working the classic tall ships at sea. He was determined to film this disappearing way of life. Amazingly he climbed right up into the top of the rigging to film the ship taking a pounding in 100 mile an hour winds rounding Cape Horn. This full video starts in ‘the storm of the century’ in the North Sea and shows The Peking’s trip around the Horn to Chile. The film is 36 minutes long so if you want to cut to the chase the storms off Cape Horn start at 24:00. He dryly narrates that when he showed the film in London to sea captains they said they had never seen a ship so awash with water to not just sink! http://www.4shared.com/video/IqQMDWHh/around_cape_horn_-_irving_john.html
Nope. If they closed the bowling alley they would have had to close the cocktail lounge. That wasn't going to happen.
Tongue-in-cheek to point out that going 'round the horn in a modern vessel is nothing like doing so in a sailing ship.
