ON THE WIND
Cape Horn in a plywood proa
American sailor Ryan Finn has become the first yachtsman ever to sail around Cape Horn in a proa. He completed his New York to San Francisco solo record attempt on his 36ft proa Jzerro on April 21, after 93 days at sea.
Finn set off from Brooklyn, New York, in mid-January, attempting to set a new record over the historic 13,000-mile course, which follows the great California Gold Rush of the 1840s-1850s from the eastern
