From Charles Doane's blog Wave Train. Interesting side note from the comments following the post, after Moitessier lost JOSHUA on the beach in Cabo, she was brought back to Port Townsend for several years. Anyone have any stories on that to share? Bernard Moitessier is remembered primarily for his famous 1968-69 Golden Globe voyage, in which he blew off a chance to win the first non-stop singlehanded round-the-world race and kept on sailing halfway around the world again to Tahiti to "save his soul." But he is also remembered for wrecking not one, but three different boats during the course [...]