[BITList] Fwd: [BIship] Re:Not Receiving Digests

[Michael Feltham]

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From: "Robin Knoxjohnston" <rknoxjohnston at clipper-ventures.com>
Date: 6 April 2009 08:30:11 BST
To: <BIship at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [BIship] Re:Not Receiving Digests
Reply-To: BIship at yahoogroups.com

The Top Dogs film was inaccurate in one respect.  We sailed from  
Ushuaia but
had to go east to Puerto Williams which is 20 miles along the Beagle
Channel, to enter inwards for Chilean territory.     The Beagle Channel
become entirely Chilean about 15 nautical miles west of Ushuaia.     
Normally
the Chileans do not allow foreign vessels to go through the western  
entrance
to the channel, but I contacted their Naval Attache in London and  
asked for
dispensation which was granted.

Filming was done from another yacht.      Cape Horn island was  
particularly
interesting as we had a relatively calm day and were able to land.     
The
radio station is manned by a Chilean Navy Petty officer, who has his  
family
with him and the children are educated via the Internet.     They are
re-supplied every two months, so gifts of fresh fruit and meat are  
welcome.
You cannot wander too much on the island as there are still minefields  
left
from the last confrontation with Argentina.     The only fly in the  
ointment
was the appearance of three large cruise liners which circled the  
island and
then disappeared east.   Then it was abck to Puerto Williams to clear  
Chile
and on to Ushuaia to enter inwards which took 2 hours.

The last in the series, crossing Frobisher Bay in Baffin island this
January, is due to be shown on the 17th April.     As none of us have  
been
allowed to see any of these films before they are shown, I cannot tell  
you
what it is like.

Knox



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