Olivier de Kersauson
The last of the giants?
As second in command to Eric Tabarly for more than 10 years, and a pioneer of the foils on Pen Duick IV in 1979, Olivier de Kersauson is one of the last of the giants of multihull ocean racing and the era of the great epics when GPS was in its infancy and modern cartography methods did not yet exist. A record-hunter on all the world’s seas before he finally hung up his oilskins in 2008, settling on a coral atoll in the Tuamotus, “a thousand leagues from all the noise“. The sailor has also published numerous books.
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