Friday, January 2, 2026 – In less than four days, we’ll reach Cape Horn!
Last night, the women of The Famous Projects CIC successfully navigated around the north side of an active low-pressure system.
Without breaking a sweat, precise in their timing and efficient in their trajectories, Alexia Barrier, Dee Caffari, Annemieke Bes, Rebecca Gmür Hornell, Deborah Blair, Molly LaPointe, Támara Echegoyen, and Stacey Jackson have, with a series of gybes, moved from the south wind to the north-northwest flow ahead of this low-pressure center, which will now propel them straight towards the Chilean coast and, in the short term, Cape Horn.
This morning, they left Point Nemo, the “maritime pole of inaccessibility,” on their port side. This geographical position, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, marks the point furthest from any land.
At their current speed, 1,900 miles, or less than four days of sailing, now separate them from the famous Horn, synonymous with a return to the Atlantic and an exit from the land of shadows. Four days of rough and disorderly seas, strong winds, cold, and even snow.
Alexia Barrier words
“We are experiencing a very physical Pacific. The wind is stronger, sometimes very irregular, with violent gusts of up to 50 knots, and above all a cross sea that shakes us constantly. The waves are high, 5 meters, powerful, not always well organized, and the boat is moving a lot. It requires constant vigilance, reducing speed, accelerating again, anticipating. We have to stay in the right tempo. We mustn’t get trapped by high pressure, we need to catch the right systems without going too far south.
We still have a few very difficult hours ahead of us, then it will calm down as we approach Cape Horn. It’s too early to know how it will turn out. Cape Horn is not conquered by attacking head-on, but by consistency.”
Excerpt from an article by The Famous Project CIC
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