• Bernard Moitessier (April 10, 1925 – June 16, 1994) was a French sailor, most notable for his participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race...
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  • Moitessier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Moitessier (1925–1994), French sailor Madame Moitessier This page lists...
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    Sailing in the South Pacific he met singlehanded sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti, leading to Rodarmor's first book translation: Moitissier's...
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    Without Port of Call, by Bernard Moitessier. Sheridan House, 2003. ISBN 978-1-57409-154-0 The Long Way, by Bernard Moitessier; p. 141. Sheridan House,...
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    covered 31,166 nautical miles (57,719 km). In his book The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier tries to express the significance to a sailor of the great capes:...
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  • circumnavigation in late 1967 was the French sailor and author Bernard Moitessier. Moitessier had a custom-built 39 foot (11.9 m) steel ketch, Joshua, named...
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    Horn on 17 January 1969, 20 days before his closest competitor Bernard Moitessier. Moitessier had sailed from Plymouth more than two months after Knox-Johnston...
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    sometimes suffered damage caused by cyclones. In the late 1970s, sailor Bernard Moitessier lived on Ahe for two years. Population of Ahe: Ahe Atoll belongs to...
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    Arthaud, during the 1970s, which published the memoirs of sailors Bernard Moitessier and Éric Tabarly. Arthaud started sailing at a very young age with...
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    Colas Clarisse Crémer Michel Desjoyeaux Jean Le Cam Armel Le Cléac’h Bernard Moitessier Jean-Luc Van Den Heede Olivier de Kersauson Citations Biographie Éric...
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    2023. The other contestants were Robin Knox-Johnston, Nigel Tetley, Bernard Moitessier, Chay Blyth, John Ridgway, William King, Alex Carozzo and Loïck Fougeron...
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  • Starring Donald Crowhurst Clare Crowhurst Simon Crowhurst Bernard Moitessier Françoise Moitessier de Cazalet Robin Knox-Johnston Ted Hynds Donald Kerr Ron...
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    famous in the 1968 Golden Globe Race, was the French sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in his custom-built 39-foot steel ketch Joshua. She had a tall rig...
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  • 1992 produced by Panther Software Joshua, sailing ketch in which Bernard Moitessier and his wife Françoise made the longest nonstop passage by a yacht...
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    long-distance sailor Bernard Moitessier christened his 39-foot (12 m) ketch-rigged boat Joshua in honor of Slocum. It was this boat that Moitessier sailed from...
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    the first person to sail the clipper route single-handed non-stop. Bernard Moitessier withdrew from the race after rounding Cape Horn in a promising position...
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    II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock. During the 1970s - 1990s Robin...
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  • committed suicide. "Joshua" is an instrumental telling the story of Bernard Moitessier, another competitor in the Golden Globe Race, who abandoned the race...
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  • Prix Avenir de l'Institut Français de la Mer[citation needed] Prix Bernard Moitessier 2011 Mention speciale du Prix de la Toison d'Or du livre d'aventure...
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  • Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Tristan Jones Sam Llewellyn Czesław Marchaj Bernard Moitessier Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer Mike Peyton Libby Purves Joshua...
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    Colas Clarisse Crémer Michel Desjoyeaux Jean Le Cam Armel Le Cléac’h Bernard Moitessier Éric Tabarly Jean-Luc Van Den Heede Olivier de Kersauson Port-Christmas...
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  • attempted to fake a circumnavigation, went insane, and committed suicide Bernard Moitessier completed a circumnavigation, rejected the race's (and society's)...
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  • Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux, 84, French-Argentine racing driver. Bernard Moitessier, 69, French sailor, prostate cancer. Kristen Pfaff, 27, American musician...
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  • at the last moment to continue on around the world a second time (Bernard Moitessier), one contestant threw himself into the ocean (Donald Crowhurst) and...
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  • Écrivains bretons for Itinéraire de Paris à Kernascléden and the Prix Bernard Moitessier for Spectralement vôtre. His book Itinéraire de Paris à Kernascléden...
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  • anarchist at heart, he rejected organized regatta and racing – Not unlike Bernard Moitessier, the famous ocean vagabond – and wrote a biting satire of yachtsmen...
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  • 14 June – Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (born 1922) 16 June – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (born 1925) 27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer...
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    harness. His method was then copied by fellow racers Loïck Fougeron and Bernard Moitessier. King started the race on 24 August 1968. During the race, King lived...
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  • boat, a used 25 ft wooden sloop in Alicante, Spain – where he met Bernard Moitessier who introduced him to the art of astronavigation – and renamed it...
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    the longest non-stop voyage on the ocean by a man and a woman since Bernard Moitessier and his wife Françoise completed a 126-day voyage in 1966, from Tahiti...
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