> the German Flying P-Liners Amazing beauties, shame there's only a few of them left. > He said that once they failed to pass Cape Horn for 100 consecutive da

> the German Flying P-Liners Amazing beauties, shame there's only a few of them left. > He said that once they failed to pass Cape Horn for 100 consecutive days. IIRC those Flying P-Liners were used a lot on the Chilean guano trade. So they had to go round Cape Horn against the prevailing winds on the way out. And with a square rigged ship not being the best for beating against the wind, it sounds believable.