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{{a|author|}} | {{a|author|}}Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor who decided, when about to win a single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968 — the one with [[Donald Crowhurst]] — 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! | |||
Well, sure enough, they ''did'' — they sailed together, to Mexico, of course — and a characteristic trail of destruction ensued. | |||
Well, sure enough, they ''did'' — they sailed together, to Mexico | |||
{{quote|In December 1982, Kinski chartered Moitessier and his yacht ''Joshua'' to help prepare for a forthcoming role in a sailing film. | {{quote|In December 1982, Kinski chartered Moitessier and his yacht ''Joshua'' to help prepare for a forthcoming role in a sailing film. | ||
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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. | 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 | Moitessier’s official story, repeated in his autobiography, is that as the storm blew up and he 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? | ||
The reality, as retold by Charles Doane,<ref>[https://wavetrain.net/2013/12/05/bernard-moitessier-what-really-happened-to-joshua/ ''Bernard Moitessier: What really happened to the Joshua'']</ref> was that when Lyn and Larry Pardey fetched up in Cabo San Lucas to cover the incident for ''Sail'' Magazine, Moitessier | The reality, as retold by Charles Doane,<ref>[https://wavetrain.net/2013/12/05/bernard-moitessier-what-really-happened-to-joshua/ ''Bernard Moitessier: What really happened to the Joshua'']</ref> was that when Lyn and Larry Pardey fetched up in Cabo San Lucas to cover the incident for ''Sail'' Magazine, Moitessier admitted that he and Kinski had been up in a hotel room “partying their brains out” while the ''Joshua'' was driven ashore untended, but later managed to persuade them to go with the fictional account, which makes much better copy!<ref>The Pardeys later set the record straight in the chapter “What happened at Cabo St Lucas?” in ''The Capable Cruiser'' (1987)</ref> | ||
They don’t make ’em like that any more. Either of them. | They don’t make ’em like that any more. Either of them. | ||