Thats a book, by Pierre Auboiroux. Has anyone read it? I was able to find a sample on google and read the first bit. Maybe Ill get my hands on the book someday.
But I kinda got the picture of it. He set sail in the mid 60s I believe (From the cover where it reads 1964-1966).
The man was an inlander. He wasn't very familiar with the sea, let alone sailing. Then he read the classic tales of the sea; "Alain Gerbault, Sloculm, Le capitaine Bernicot, Bardiaux, Moitessier" (p.19).
Then he decided that he would sail around the world. Remember there was no GPS back then. And he did it, despite the fact that he didnt really know what he was doing. I guess he was bound to be ridiculed, until he proved successful.
He did not receive much help. That was probably because nobody but himself had enough conviction and faith to believe he could do it.
Today there are plenty more resources readily available to the neophyte. But then, why is it that we dont hear more of such voyages? Even more so for it has been proven possible ... ? The world population has doubled since and its achievements, it seems to me, are not twice as impressive, but rather the contrary. Is it the hormones they put in our food that shrink our men's balls so small they are not men anymore? Or is it the high-tech brainwashing? When a wild lion stops shacking his cage, you know he has been broken.
Was Auboiroux being sensible? If he set the bar high, should we sit down and look at it, or try to move it up again? Is death to be feared with such zeal? Are we worthy of the name Man?
But I kinda got the picture of it. He set sail in the mid 60s I believe (From the cover where it reads 1964-1966).
The man was an inlander. He wasn't very familiar with the sea, let alone sailing. Then he read the classic tales of the sea; "Alain Gerbault, Sloculm, Le capitaine Bernicot, Bardiaux, Moitessier" (p.19).
Then he decided that he would sail around the world. Remember there was no GPS back then. And he did it, despite the fact that he didnt really know what he was doing. I guess he was bound to be ridiculed, until he proved successful.
He did not receive much help. That was probably because nobody but himself had enough conviction and faith to believe he could do it.
Today there are plenty more resources readily available to the neophyte. But then, why is it that we dont hear more of such voyages? Even more so for it has been proven possible ... ? The world population has doubled since and its achievements, it seems to me, are not twice as impressive, but rather the contrary. Is it the hormones they put in our food that shrink our men's balls so small they are not men anymore? Or is it the high-tech brainwashing? When a wild lion stops shacking his cage, you know he has been broken.
Was Auboiroux being sensible? If he set the bar high, should we sit down and look at it, or try to move it up again? Is death to be feared with such zeal? Are we worthy of the name Man?