Bernard Moitessier was one of the worlds great small-baot sailors. He wrote four other books, all classics of nautical literature. Sailing to the Reefs was Moitessiers first book. The Long Way covered the famous Golden Globe race that he abandoned to "save [his] soul." A Sea Vagabonds World is a practical book and Tamata and the Alliance, finished shortly before his death in 1994, is the magnificent autobiography of this uncommon man.
Description
Foreword
Part I. Birds of Passage
1. My Paper Boat
2. Like a Well-trained Monkey
3. Like a Lost Dog
4. The Wheel Turns
5. Afloat at Last
6. Towards the Tropics
7. In the Open Sea
8. The Fickle Trades
9. Meeting Place of Ocean Birds
10. Atlantic
11. The Great Turning Point
12. Panama--Galapagos
13. A World which Fear has Spared
14. At the Gates to Polynesia
15. A Dream at a Price
Part II. The Logical Route
1. Preparations
2. A Start...Like any Other
3. A Whole Gales
4. In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the Game of the Little Squares
5. Cape Horn to Port
6. On the Look-out for Icebergs
7. The Horse Latitudes
8. Trade Winds...from the West!
Part III. Appendices
Designers Notes
Authors Notes
A true classic by and about one of cruisings best known authors.
— Latitudes & Attitudes