A documentary about a man and a race around the world, alone, a boat. Fuckin mindbending. His unravelling and descent into insanity is severely disturbing. Great film though.

I'll watch this.

i read something like this once, only it involved a cruze and palpable pleat lust

Touching the Void is excellent.

how many voids have you touched, broom lifter?

There are two stories going on in this film, the other one is even more impressive but I can't remember the fellas name as he was a Frenchman who was part of the race and after having gone round the whole wrold, on the home strip, relatively speaking, turning round the bottom of Brazil, decided to keep going around again. it's a wonderful film but really disturbing too.

Not enough to fill the empty cavern that is my heart

The main guy this film focuses on is fascinating, but this guy is who I meant in the previous post, and his is an even more fascinating story. They couldn't be more different people.


Bernard Moitessier
Although he abandoned the race, Moitessier still circumnavigated the world, crossing his path off South Africa, and then sailing almost two-thirds of the way round a second time, all non-stop and mostly in the roaring forties – a total of 37,455 miles in 10 months. Despite heavy weather and a couple of severe knockdowns, he contemplated rounding the Horn again. However, he decided that he and Joshua had had enough and sailed to Tahiti, where he and his wife had set out for Alicante, Spain, a decade earlier. He thus completed his second personal circumnavigation of the world (including the previous voyage with his wife) on 21 June 1969. He then started work on his book.
It is impossible to say whether Moitessier would have won if he had completed the race, as he would have been sailing in different weather conditions than Knox-Johnston; based on his time from the start to Cape Horn being about 77% of that of Knox-Johnston, it would have been an extremely close race. His book, The Long Way, tells the story of his voyage as a spiritual journey as much as a sailing adventure and is still regarded as a classic of sailing literature.

Just dvr'd it. It's on IFC 6/6 10:45am EST.

good timing

Driving to Los Angeles by myself was terrifying enough. I always wanted to test my will power and endurance in other areas of life. Going across one ocean in a small boat is one of them. Nothing like ol' Don though.

Yeah I'm scared to death of the open ocean.

After watching this, and listening to his cassette logs, I am too.

Excellent!! Really great to read it. I am sharing it to my followers on twitter. Thanks!

spread the word, Tos.

Watched today...very good.

I want to find out more about Moitessier, the one who just kept going. There's a book you can get of his diary of the trip. gotta get it.