December 4 Friday Day 16, average speed 6.75 knots
I spent the night watch reading in our pilotbok of Chile, all the way
from Puerto Montti to Tierra el Fuego, it is about 1000 NM. There are
thousands of berths in the fiords. There is a place 310' south of P
Montti called Laguna San Rafael, where are you in a lagoon at a
glacier and there are dolphins, penguins and sea lions. Sounds completely
fantastic. Further names Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego,
Cape Horn, names that have always attracted me ever since I read Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World. He had problems with the indigenous population during his voyage around Tierra del Fuego; when he anchored for the
night he laid out thumbtacks on the deck so that no one would come on board.
Times have changed, thumbtacks no longer needed, but the magnificence of nature
remains.
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