JV Jumble–Geronimo Is Around The Horn: Olivier De Kersauson and his crew, frozen, frustrated and French, finally rounded Cape Stiff yesterday, and are headed north in the Atlantic. They passed this last major milestone in their voyage about 10 hours ahead of Orange 2002, but 48 hours behind Cheyenne’s world record pace. Here’s a handy-dandy little travelogue from the Geronimo website:

“At sea off the coast of Patagonia in 1840, you would have seen a landscape dotted with crosses. Every bay and every headland had its graveyard. Twenty seafaring nations had lost entire crews here. The Bretons were the most numerous in these terrible latitudes and hold the sad record for the most shipwrecks. In the waters off the well-named Desolation Island, it is still possible occasionally to see the top yardarms of sunken 3-masters standing above the waves like symbolic crucifixes…”

At least Geronimo didn’t become one of them…



Fossett (Red) Is Way Ahead…