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{{a|author|}}Author of {{br|The Long Way}} and man who decided, when about to win a single-handed round-the-world yacht race, to hang it all and go round the world again. Eventually settled on an atoll near Tahiti. | {{a|author|}}Author of {{br|The Long Way}} and man who decided, when about to win a single-handed round-the-world yacht race, to hang it all and go round the world again. Eventually settled on an atoll near Tahiti. | ||
Just the sort of extreme personality who might have got on — or might ''not'' | Just the sort of extreme personality who might have got on — or might have ''not'' got on — with Klaus Kinski, you rather think. Imagine if they met! | ||
Well, sure enough, they ''did'' — they sailed together, to Mexico — ''of course!'' — and a characteristic trail of destruction ensued. | |||
We’d like to think the “sailing film” Kinski was preparing for was ''Fitzcarraldo'' but, alas, the dates don’t quite match ( | {{quote|In December 1982, Kinski chartered Moitessier and his yacht ''Joshua'' to help prepare for a forthcoming role in a sailing film. | ||
While the pair were anchored off the beach at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico a freak onshore storm blew up, ''Joshua'' dragged her anchor, collided with another yacht, lost her mast, and then beached along with 25 other yachts, eventually filling with sand. | |||
Moitessier spent days trying to dig her out but the salvage costs were too great, so sold her as a wreck for $20. }} | |||
We’d like to think the “sailing film” Kinski was preparing for was ''Fitzcarraldo'' but, alas, the dates don’t quite match (''Fitzcarraldo'' was released nine months before the accident) and it seems that Kinski never made his sailing film. But the story of ''how'' the accident happened is deserves a film of its own. | |||
Moitessier’s official story, repeated in his autobiography, is that as the storm blew up, and Moitessier struggled to save the situation, Kinski became quarrelsome, Moitessier order him off the boat, Kinski refused to go — well, you can just imagine, can’t you. Did Moitessier pull a flare-gun on him? | Moitessier’s official story, repeated in his autobiography, is that as the storm blew up, and Moitessier struggled to save the situation, Kinski became quarrelsome, Moitessier order him off the boat, Kinski refused to go — well, you can just imagine, can’t you. Did Moitessier pull a flare-gun on him? | ||
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They don’t make ’em like that any more. Either of them. | They don’t make ’em like that any more. Either of them. | ||
(Happy ending: the ''Joshua'' was fully restored and is now berthed at the Maritime Museum in La Rochelle.) | |||
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