Long Way
by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor · first published 1995
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I cannot recommend 'The Long Way' by Bernard Moitessier & 'The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst' highly enough. Both books cover how 2 contestants in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race could have won but did not, for rather interesting/different…
on “Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor ” ↗…these: Everything and More, David Foster Wallace Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell Antifragile, Nassim Taleb The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Rene Girard The Wu-Tang Manual, RZA Meditations, Marcus Aurelius Essays, Michel de Montaigne We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Joan Didion
on “Ask HN: What are some good books?” ↗…just keep sailing instead of finishing the race. A Voyage for Madmen is a great read about the race, as are Bernard Moitessier's and Robin Knox-Johnston's books about their experiences in the race (The Long Way and A World of my Own). There are some interesting books about Crowhurst but they are mostly conjecture and speculation since we don't have much to go on there and I ultimately felt A Voyage for Madmen…
on “"They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did"” ↗