Cape Horn too dangerous for a Type 42!!!????

Good Grief!!   What is the world coming to?   If 200-ton wooded sailing ships can do it and 7-ton (and smaller) yachts too for that matter, what the hell's the matter with a 4000 ton steel warship?

You wouldn't get Chichester, Rose, Knox-Jonston or even MacArthur going through the Magellan Strait - AND it's the easy way round. Don't let THAT get into the papers, after the CORNWALL fiasco!

(btw, did anyone hear the item about that, accompanied by a parody of 'Drunken Sailor' on R4 this morning?)

Steve
(who's never been nearer than 10 000M to Cape Horn!)