Sailing around the world, in his father's footsteps

Team AkzoNobel - Volvo Ocean Race © James Blake / Volvo Ocean Rac

Long before Peter Blake was killed by a Brazilian pirate in the Amazon in 2001, he talked at the dinner table with his young son James about the privileges that came with successfully sailing around the world.

"He always told me that you couldn't put your elbows on the table until you've gone around Cape Horn," James Blake said.

Blake, now 31, has joined the club at last: rounding "the Horn" this year during the Volvo Ocean Race, the grueling round-the-world event that his father competed in five times — and won once — when it was called the Whitbread.

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