Part One
Chapter 1: Full Sail
Chapter 2: Clear Light
Chapter 3: Sunday at Trinidad
Chapter 4: Muchos Pocos Hacen Un Muncho
Chapter 5: Played and Lost…Played and Won
Part Two
Chapter 6: Good Hope
Chapter 7: A Saw-tooth Wake
Chapter 8: The Days and the Nights
Chapter 9: The Long Way
Chapter 10: The Rule of the Game
Chapter 11: Christmas and the Rat
Chapter 12: The Time of the Very Beginnings
Part Three
Chapter 13: My Elder Brother
Chapter 14: Joshua against Joshua
Chapter 15: One Night…
Chapter 16: One Day…and a Night
Part Four
Chapter 17: True Dreams—and False
Chapter 18: Time to Choose
Chapter 19: The Turning Point
Chapter 20: Listen, Joshua…
Chapter 21: Time to Choose—Part II
Chapter 22: The Second Turning Point
Appendix
Glossary
Bernard Moitessier was born in 1925 in Indochina and much of his sailing knowledge was gained during time spent at sea with the fishermen of the Gulf of Siam. One of the greatest ocean voyagers, he became a legend in his time. He was also a gifted writer and wrote four books describing his seagoing adventures. He moved to France where he spent the last years of his life working on his memoirs, Tamata and the Alliance (Sheridan House, 1995), the story of an unusual man and an exciting life. Bernard Moitessier died in the summer of 1994.
Moitessier is better known as one of the greatest ocean voyagers
and was a legend in his time. Last month we reviewed the last book
he wrote Tamata and the Alliance. This book is about his Round the
World Race for singlehanded yachts. For Moitessier, the race
finished in mid-Pacific after he had passed the three Capes and
crossed his outward track, leading, and with the hardest sections
behind him, he decided to forfeit the race and continue into the
Pacific again, to anchor finally among friends in Tahiti. His
actions were never explained by the news media; they could not have
been, for the voyage had always been seen by Moitessier as
something other than a sponsored, publicized, competitive event. It
was on the ocean, alone with his boat, that Moitessier began to
regard this as a voyage that could not end for him with the reward
of those whose values were not his.
*Sailing Inland & Offshore*
One of the world's most famous ocean sailors, Moitessier had sailed
for more than a year from Plymouth, England to the Indian Ocean
when he inexplicably abandoned the lead in the 1968-1969
Round-the-World single-handed race. He sailed to Tahiti, dropped
anchor and dropped out. Until the publication of this book, only
Moitessier and a few friends knew why. Most of the book is a diary
of that voyage with philosophical side trips into modern
civilization. There is also a 60-page appendix that can stand alone
as a small reference volume of details such as route planning, sail
repair, the problems of sail and line chafe, rigging and hull
construction, self-steering, freak waves and weather, plus much
more. Altogether a strange, fascinating, and informative book.
*Boat U.S.*
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