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You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

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Bernard Moitessier

Bernard Moitessier

Born: April 10, 1925
Died: June 16, 1994 (aged 69)
Bio: Bernard Moitessier, a French national born and raised in Vietnam, was a sailor most notable for his participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first round the world yacht race.
Known for:
  1. The Long Way (1973)
  2. La Longue route (1971)
  3. Vagabond des mers du sud (1960)
  4. A Sea Vagabond's World
  5. Sailing to the Reefs

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