To those interested and those who think his views naive i recommend an incredible read, Tamata and the Alliance. This book fully explores this Legendary yachtsman's approach not only to sailing but to his incredible life and achievements. The world needs those as bold, fearless, thoughtful, inspirational and intelligent now more than ever. Bernard Moitessier thank you.

He inspired so many of us to go to sea alone. I came to understand that there is a place where you keep your own company and learn to be pleased with yourself. Merci Bernard. Merci.

A humble man. Truly the best sailor in his time. Fame, fortune and trophies were unimportant to him. Ahead in the Golden globe race by a wide margin he decided to forego finishing the race and turned back out to sea.

What a human being. Thank you Monsieur Bernard.

There is a difference between simplicity and naivety. Society at large has a naive faith in the efficacy of "progress" and specialization. We tell our history as a story of that progress and ignore the detriments to the environment, the extermination of cultures, the perversion of our psychology... I think Bernard Moitessier was an incredibly wise man. I wish I could have met him.

Thank you so much for posting this. I never heard him speak English. If anyone had more of him speaking in English please share.

It is such a blessing to get a brief glimpse into the rarest of the rare in our species - a real, honest, truthful, ethical and moral human being, unencumbered and truly alive!

this should be first thing taught to the children of the world ! Cheers

A wonderful and tasteful memorial to Bernard Moitessier, who alone enjoyed the thoughts and music of his mind in tune with Nature. May we ALL find such comfort and share with the world this pleasure here viewed and then achieved.

It's like hes describing the present moment. I've read his books so many times and was infatuated with him. The older I get the more I wish I could have hung out with him. Thanks for adding to my life Bernard.

"There were so many beautiful days on a beautiful boat that it really meant that time changed dimension".

This is easily worth a good movie! He was clearly a man ahead of his time.

I have long ago read of his sailing exploits and also in my very own small way built a boat and sailed a total of 25000+ sea miles in 5 years in the Atlantic. Was not so well read in his philosophy but have through time came to very much the same conclusions. We as a specie are our own worst enemy, and the fundamental is that we are breeding ourselves out of existence. Today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing where great expectations was expressed for the human race but seen in the greater context we have failed miserably even with the great technological achievements. We must fundamentally re exam our place and destiny on this planet and start to realise that it is not infinite but a very fragile Eco system that we are busy raping for a very silly purpose. A human set of values pertaining to wealth and a need for artificial comfort and a surety in the future that does not really exist.

Salus You are 100% correct ive devoured all of his books and am in the process of going back through them. Well worth the read. You either get it or you dont

Bernard Moitessier, Robin Knox-Johnston and Chay Blyth. Absolute legends who will NEVER be equaled. The true Legends of sailing.

Not monkeys...sheep...doing what you're told, allowing a small group to run everything...EVERYTHING!!!

And in 2022, we still are a bunch of monkeys

Wow, powerful interview. Thank you for this gem

After growing up with my father mother sis and brother on our 16m Tai junk, had my own 16m steel sailing ketch. After some years of ups and downs I got rid of the engine, sailed around the globe E to West no engine no radar, eco, etc. Eyeballing at all times, built a stirring sail ,and had GPS, and paper maps. 3 years +- 1000 days. you know what happened ?,. Firstly, l learned really how to sail, especially light winds. Changing sails up to 6 × a day in the Pacific. secondly, nothing broke down, which meant more time, more money, more fun, and fuck less work. Became a weather expert from looking all the time. I did ram a tanker in capetown harbour, very softly no damage, but sailing to the R.C.Y.C .is not a good plan. So Moitessier is rightly in saying monkey this and monkey that. I say only if you LET IT get you..

Awesome!

His ideas sound naïve or innocent today, I'm sure that's just what we need.

Legend.

Very inspiring!

Bernard name is misspelled : it’s MOITESSIER. Read his book, it’s inspiring !

legend

Respect

Indeed

The United Fruit company waged bloody war on anyone that tried to hustle in on their racket. Imagine everyone planting fruit trees? There would be civil war. An inspirational man nonetheless.

indeed indeed

Thanks for sharing

Lonely man in the sea.

Appreciate your precious human birth.

Though it sounds naive its more a romantic veiw of the world yet he is right when he says man doesnt care . The downfall of man will be his arragance the sad thing is he will take the rest of the world down with him .

Thanks for sharing, but please fix the title so that more people can enjoy it.

Please can anyone give me a hint how to find what music it is (sounds like 2 different songs),playing in the background? I love it so much (like Moitessier and his books too), and cant find anywhere...

Is that Keith Jarrett on the piano I hear?

Moitessier, not Motessier.

Very interesting fellow-I read all his books and studied him and his childhood in Vietnam under french rule.The sea however is a wild cruel witch to be married too and destroyed all three of the boats he put blood and sweat into.What a cruel harlot.Joshua was filled with sand and ruined during a hurricane.I don't think he ever got over her.He cancered out.I've wondered if it was from chlorine in the water tanks,be careful of that.Use it very sparingly and carefully.

Alas that a steel yacht needs smelters, rolling mills, welders, welding rods, electrical power, copper cables, turbines, generators, lubricant, paint and of course coal mines, mines for limestone, mines for copper, mines for bauxite, chemical factories for dacron and and and........... Sorry; you can't escape the industrial world, whatever your philosophy, and it's a world where a lot of people have to work very hard in unpleasant conditions so some of us can enjoy sailing.

His wife elaine? His wife's name is Francois

2:03 4 x Head'ls

Bernard Moitissier*

Solar cells? B/S!

Rubbish. There was no trophies waiting for him, in his own words he was 2000 frigging miles behind RKJ. I wish idiots would stop perpetuating this myth and stick to facts. The man was truly a legend in his own right though and the focus should be on what he DID do not what he didn’t!

I have a motorboat with 4 ×250cv mercury hahahahahahah useless sailors!