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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
Skipper, is your mate Bernard Moltessier really Eric Cantona?
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Not sure, possibly a remote second cousin perhaps?
Bernard was an interesting character who entered the first single handed Round the World yacht race in 1969. (That one that Robin Knox - Johnston won.) He enjoyed the solitude so much, that instead of returning to the start/finish line, he went round again. His yacht was a steel hulled, heavily rigged vessel called Joshua.
If he had finished the race, he might have kung - fu drop kicked a spectator for no obvious reason though!
