Sail boats
Sailing trips to Antarctica,
Cape Horn, Chilean Glaciers and
Fuegian Chanels

There are regions that simply mentioning them, like the Cape Horn, Antarctica, States Island or the Darwin Mountain Range glaciers, generate curiosity on our adventurer spirit.

Due to the draught and the length of these boats, it is possible to reach really beautiful landscapes, and to access to small bays or deep water creeks, that assure a refuge and a protected anchorage to us from the winds, that are really strong sometimes.

Who can take this tour??

Could be an experienced sailor or not, age is not important, physical status is important, and most important " to feel the spirit " to make it.

What is important to consider?

The captain is the maximum authority on board, he knows the best course and the best place to overnight safely. Their experience, in other seas and the different trips he did in this zone, eliminate any doubt.

From the moment that is on board of the sailboat, all will be crew members, all are welcome to cooperate with the tasks developed, keeping the the order, help in the kitchen or the tasks of the outter deck, to learn some marine knot or to be at the helm; the team spirit must be always present, to share, to forget anxieties forget and to enjoy an excellent navigation.

Sailboat Features

The capacity varies between 4 and 10 passengers. The cabins are double or quadruple.

Equipment, Ketch or Sloop type- Material, aluminum.

All the boats are equipped with the following security elements.

Radar - VHF Radio, HF, BLU - Sattelite Navigator - GPS - Automatic Pilot - Zodiacs - Life Vests - Harnesses and Life boats - watertight Port.

The boat also count with hot and cold water, hot Water Shower - central Heating - Library - Music.

Sailor bag ( Do not bring suitcases )

Waterproof jacket and trousers, rubber boots, sleeping bag, thermal underclothes (type Helly-Hansen, Patagonia, Musto, etc.) - wool gloves and cap, sun glasses, solar protection cream filter, comfortable footwear to use inside, sweaters.

Trip Duration

A sailboat can be rented, for a navigation of 1 day through the Beagle Channel, 3 days sailing Beagle Channel and Port Williams, 8 days for the Cape Horn or Darwin Mountain range glaciers, 28 days to Antarctica, 45 days for South Georgias.

What is included?

In the case of the navigation of 1 day, lunch on board with drinks, in the navigation of 3 days or more, full board with drinks.

Transfers: Airport / Yatch Club / Airport.

Trip Descriptions

Darwin Mountain Range Glaciers

Duration: 8 days / 7 nights

We will aboard the sailboat at the Yatch Club, to start the trip. We will sail towards the east through the Beagle Channel, will see its magellanics cormorants, imperial cormorants, giant petrels and sea wolves. The Light House Les Eclaireurs will indicate to change our course towards Port Williams (Chile). Docked at the Micalvi Yatch Club, we will spend our first night in the sailboat.

The life on board will allow us to learn the diverse tasks that are developed, from the kitchen, the order, to take care of the water until controlling and knowing some marine knots reason why the spirit of collaboration always will be present and this will help us to release the anxiete of knowing what will happen the next day.

After this first night in Port Williams, where we will be able to make a long walk we will prepare ourselves to depart towards the Glaciers area, west course through the Beagle Channel we will be sailing this area fro six days, which offers safe bays or creeks to us for the anchorage at night allowing landings to enjoy the landscape and long walks.

We will appreciate the Glaciers Holland, Italy, Germany, Romanche, and we will sail inside a fiord without name where we will find a glacier in each bay, sailing between small ice blocks. The feeling sailing this zone is hard to describe, the mountains, the glaciers ending at the sea, the different greens, the birds, the silence, shows the less known nature of Tierra del Fuego.

Cape Horn

Duration: 8 days / 7 nights

It is the same route up to Port Williams (Chile), as we do when we go to the Glaciers, although to sail in the Beagle Channel always surprises us. After the inmigrations procedures we will leave Port Williams for some days, sailing towards the east, alongside the Navarino Island coast to meet with the Picton and Lennox Islands, then we will enter we will enter the waving Nassau Bay, in the direction of the Wollaston islands, the marine fauna is extraordinary. We will experience the Williams winds. And this is the moment, under good weather conditions to reach the mythical Cape Horn.

States Island

Sailing towards the east alongside the south coast of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) through the Beagle Channel, we will begin this navigation towards one of the most inhospitable places of the area. We will see in our trip some of the Tierra del Fuego Estancias, Remolino, Harberton, and Moat. The landscape will be changing, is the end of the Andes MOuntain Range and the beginning of the steppe, the Mitre Peninsula. After bordering this Peninsula we will enter the Le Maire strait, that separates both Island, Tierra del Fuego and States Island. This island is marine refuge for the penguins and wolves procreation. Also called by the Yámanas Indians land of the abundance (Chuanisin) by its vegetation.

Antarctic Peninsula

It is a trip to a new world: a mineral and iced world, huge and spectacular, that releases in summer some rocky strips to allow to the coriácea animal and vegetal life to keep their procreation cyclend, and to get the sailboats closer.

We depart from Ushuaia, but the shutdown in Port Williams facultative and subject to the weather conditions.

With good weather conditions three or four days sailing should be enough to reach the first safe area at South Shetlands after crossingr the Drake Passage, half day sailing away from the Antarctica Peninsula. From there. the boat will sail down alongside the west coast of the Peninsula, as far as the ice and the weather allow it, stopping every night in bays or creeks because it is still much to discover. The return towards the north will be from the northern most point needing five or six days to end the trip.