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Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor who decided, when about to win a single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968, to hang it all and go round the world again. Eventually settled on an atoll near Tahiti. Hw wrote a memoir of the experience called {{br|The Long Way}}, which is also to be memorialised in {{Author|Stewart Brand}}’s forthcoming {{Br|The Maintenance Race}}. | Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor who decided, when about to win a single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968, to hang it all and go round the world again. Eventually settled on an atoll near Tahiti. Hw wrote a memoir of the experience called {{br|The Long Way}}, which is also to be memorialised in {{Author|Stewart Brand}}’s forthcoming {{Br|The Maintenance Race}}. | ||
===When Bernie and Klaus went sailing=== | |||
Moitessier’s the sort of extreme personality who might have got on — or might ''not'' have got on — with Klaus Kinski, you rather think. Imagine if they met! | Moitessier’s the sort of extreme personality who might have got on — or might ''not'' have got on — with Klaus Kinski, you rather think. Imagine if they met! | ||