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Moitessier: A Sailing Legend (Paperback)
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Moitessier: A Sailing Legend (Paperback)
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List price R440
Loot Price R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
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In 1968 during the Golden Globe, the first solo non-stop race
around the world, Bernard Moitessier sent the following message
with a slingshot onto the deck of a freighter, 'I am continuing
...' With this unbelievable decision to turn his back on glory and
money, when he had victory in his grasp, and continue sailing to
the Pacific Islands after seven months at sea, he became a guru for
all small boat sailors. Jean-Michel Barrault was his friend for 36
years. He met him when Moitessier, having survived two shipwrecks,
went to Paris in search of work. He got him to start writing about
his adventures, which Moitessier did beautifully. More adventures
followed, a trip from Tahiti to Spain via Cape Horn as a honeymoon.
After finishing 'The Long Way', his most famous book, Moitessier
and Joshua, his 39-foot ketch spent many years in Polynesia where
he built his own house, planted coconut trees and transformed his
atoll into a speck of green in the middle of the South Pacific. He
lived in the United States for a time, lost his boat in Cabo San
Lucas during a hurricane, and spent his last years in France, where
he wrote his memoirs. Shortly before his death, Tamata and the
Alliance was published to great acclaim. Moitessier, the
internationally known sailor, writer and ecologist, became a legend
in his own time.
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