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Can you, though? You'd have to squeeze through the narrow English Channel first, and that would probably require some turns.
Yes
Never mind the English Channel, Drake Passage will probably kill you.
How bad can it be, really. I've got a boat. I can swim. We're good.
"This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone." -Lansing
Below 40 degrees south there is no law; below 50 degrees south there is no God -sailing proverb
You can go north across the arctic ocean (not sure if it gets ice free enough) and through the bering strait, but you end up around 500 kilometres away from new zealand.