The voyage of the full-rigged ship "Susanna", captained by Christian Simon Jürgens from Föhr, is considered by experts to be the toughest documented sailing voyage ever. 10 Beaufort means rough weather, storms are the rule. As soon as the ship has made up a few miles to windward, it is thrown back again by the forces of nature. This creates a course line that looks like the track of a drunken spider: forwards, backwards, sideways - for days, weeks, months.
Three men lost their lives during this time at the end of 1905. Anyone who reads the logbooks will say: only three men.
The documents were discovered in a Hamburg archive. YACHT has sifted through them and reconstructed the events, enriched with the eyewitness accounts of a British sailor who was a cadet on the "British Isles", which was in the Cape Horn area at the time. A gripping piece of maritime history.
Now in the new YACHT 1/2012.
