The Galileo sailboat, led by the survivor of the General Belgrano Cruise Nilo Navas, set sail on Monday morning from the city of Ushuaia with the aim of reaching Cape Hornwhere the Argentine military vessel passed during the Malvinas war in 1982.
The sixth nautical journey undertaken by the ex-combatantwho already traveled to Isla de los Estados in 2019 and to Argentine Antarctica in 2020, began with a mild day in the Tierra del Fuego capital, with temperature records of 15 degrees, although with gusts of wind from the southwest of 50 kilometers per hour.
the galileo it began to go up the Beagle Channel to reach first Puerto Karelo and Puerto Almanza, and then Puerto Willians, already in Chile.
The expedition will pass near the Picton, Lennox and Nueva Islands before turning south in search of Cape Horn, where a landing is scheduled, depending on weather conditions.
Navas told, before leaving, that The trip has historical connotations because they will seek to reach the place where the Belgrano cruise ship was positioned “between April 26 and 28, 1982 to intercept British ships during the Malvinas warsomething that ultimately did not happen,” he explained in dialogue with Télam.
In addition, the economics teacher and radio host intends to navigate one of the most dangerous places in the world for navigation.
Other ship expeditions
The same boat belonging to the Malvinas Argentinas Foundation, from Bahía Blanca, made a trip to the site of the sinking of the Argentine Navy cruise ship in 2017where an act of tribute to the 323 deceased was carried out.
A 2019 expedition It served to create the “Heroes de Malvinas” thematic library, in the San Juan de Salvamento lighthouse (or End of the World Lighthouse) on the Isla de los Estados, another one in 2020 took them to different national Antarctic bases, and in 2021 they returned to the mythical archipelago where Jules Verne’s book takes place to pay homage to Commander Luis Piedrabuena.
The crew of the sailboat will be made up of the “usual team” made up of captain Andrés Antonini, boatswain Mario Monserrat and skipper and head of navigation Jorge “Jota” Patoco, to which in this case the navigator Ernesto Niedzwiecki will be added.
Nevertheless, The novelty of this journey will be that for the first time two women will join us: Verónica Varas and Cynthia Burna, both navigators from Buenos Aires.
