Title : Memories of the Sea - Eric Tabarly - book

Summary :

On June 12, 1998, Éric Tabarly disappeared in the Irish Sea. In his Mémoires du large , he, the silent one, comes out of his reserve and speaks. He recounts his childhood, his years of apprenticeship, the Naval Academy, Morocco, Indochina… But above all that day in the spring of 1938 when, for the first time, he climbed aboard the Pen Duick , which his father had just bought.
This old, half-rotten cutter would transform his life. Éric Tabarly would fight for years to restore it to its former glory. But the Pen Duick saga also included Pen Duick II , aboard which he won his first race in 1964; Pen Duick III , which introduced aluminum hulls... A succession of victories and setbacks, technical innovations, crossings whose crew members were called Lamazou, Kersauson, Poupon, Coste, Colas...
Carried by the breath of the open sea, these Memoirs are the sincere portrait of a man who, against all odds, lived in the service of a passion and an ideal.

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