Hazard spot
Cape Horn: storm zone: Severe storms
Cape Horn: storm zone: Here the Southern Ocean swell runs unbroken around the globe and piles up over shallower ground. Gale risk all year, and every passage needs its own plan.
- Cause
- Severe storms
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 55° 54,0' S 067° 18,0' W
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Cape Horn: storm zone: how the place works
At the cape the way between South America and Antarctica narrows to a few hundred miles, and the Southern Ocean swell runs onto shallower ground there. Lows pass through all year, and the window for a rounding is measured in hours, not days.
Cape Horn: storm zone: what breaks there
What happens here is structural damage: superstructure, windows, rig, and in the worst case a capsize. The damage is not the problem; the distance to any help is.
Cape Horn: storm zone: what this means for your policy
A rounding of Cape Horn is in no standard policy. It needs a separate agreement, usually with conditions on boat, crew and equipment, and not every insurer writes it at all.
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And what applies right now?
This page shows what always holds here; live official warnings are on the warning map.
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