Talk:Bernard Moitessier
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Neal376@aol.com - Tuesday February 28th, 2006
This article is disturbingly short. A man of such stature warrents a longer write up. I will help anyone who is willing to commit.
This comes mostly from the article about Moitessier in the French Wikipedia. The titles and dates for his books are the original French ones. The English translations of the titles are from the English editions. This could use more about his family and personal history (he fought against the Viet Minh, I think). Binkymagnus 07:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] completed circumnavigation or not?
The article seems to say that he didn't finish the circumnavigation (and thus the race) but then says:
- Moitessier circumnavigated the world and sailed almost two-thirds of the way round a second time
This seems to contradict and should be clarified. --Singkong2005 tc 05:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Moitessier did not complete the race, but turned around in the Atlantic, went past the Cape of Good Hope a 2nd time and finally stopped in Tahiti. Amazingly he did this without resupplying or contacting the outside world, if I remember correctly he could not even get a message off to his loved ones while passing the Cape and was assumed lost at sea. I agree that this article is "disturbingly short" as this man influenced the world of sailing/yachting immeasurably.
