The second stage will include the circumnavigation of Staten Island thus completing a total of 220 nautical miles, navigating the hazardous waters where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans converge resulting in one of the harshest seas in the world for every sailor in what is known as the gateway to Cape Horn.The island is the final part of the Andes mountain range emerging from the sea and for this reason presents a very rugged and rocky coastline with long stretches of cliffs of 20 to 50 m high, and only a very few accesible beaches constantly battered by waves. The climate is hostile and extremely humid on the island, hit by strong winds which according to the direction may bring snow, rain at any season of the year. It is very unstable, perhaps the hardest challenge both at sea and on land.

The kayakers - all born in Tierra del Fuego - are strongly motivated to go after the spirit and the steps of the Yahgan canoers, indigenous people of the region. Today we know that the Yahgans or Yamanas crossed the dangerous Strait of Le Maire in their fragile bark canoes to Staten Island; testimonies of these visits were recorded in 1982 by archaeologists and anthropologists in Crossley Bay.

Our main objectives are to perform an ecological and environmental survey of the coasts of this historical ecological reserve, take a photographic and audiovisual record of the island to spread the knowledge of this area in Argentina and the world and to pay tribute to marine Luis Piedrabuena through a plaque of recognition, a true gentleman of the sea who saved many human lives from many different shipwrecks during the nineteenth century in these violent seas.”