Over eight months, competitors face a 39,000-mile battle against the elements, braving rough water and stormy weather.
Known for the stormy weather and rough seas encountered there, the cape is situated at the convergence of the warm Mozambique-Agulhas current from the Indian Ocean and the cool Benguela current from Antarctic waters.
The British, Scottish and local governments have promoted its stormy coast and rough open seas, accessible by boat within an hour, as ideal places for testing innovations in wave and tidal energy generation under extreme conditions.
i.e. Merrimack, Fort Darling, etc. Stanchions were also installed around the perimeter of the freeboard with a rope strung through each making it safer to walk about the deck amid stormy weather and rough seas.
But Coleridge hit on the intimacy and delicacy of the connection between the albatross and the rough ocean environments that may seem as robust as stormy seas but are actually as delicately balanced as an albatross skimming low across cresting swells, kissing the foam with its wingtips.
The Isaurian followers of Tarasicodissa, who was to survive a stormy reign as the Emperor Zeno (474 491), were rough mountain folk from southern Anatolia and culturally probably even more barbarous than the Goths or the other Germans.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stormy sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, it's time come at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
When we are interacting in this way, our kids see us as steady and reliable, and they relax in the knowledge that we are able to navigate their stormy seas without leaping over the side of the ship when the going gets rough.
A newer and rougher take on clowns is provided by Bruce Nauman's sinister video piece of 1987, "Clown Torture (Dark and Stormy Night With Laughter)," starring Mr. Nauman himself.
(Stormy applause, all rise).
