by Eric Tabarly · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877062992
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«Mémoires du large» is the memoir of French sailor Eric Tabarly, published by Fallois in 1997 in paperback (347 pages, in French).
Tabarly wrote these memoirs at sixty-six: he reviews his childhood, his relationship with the yacht Pen Duick and his victory in the 1964 solo transatlantic race. The account spans three decades of sailing, the technical challenges he drove forward and sailors he trained, such as Olivier de Kersauson and Alain Colas.
Published by Éditions de Fallois in Paris, the work appeared in French in 1997. The author disappeared at sea on 13 June 1998.
It will appeal to those who enjoy adventure memoirs, ocean sailing and biographies of sportspeople.
Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly was a French naval officer and yachtsman, a naval architect and boat designer too. He developed a passion for offshore racing very early on and won several ocean races such as the Ostar in 1964 and 1976, ending English domination in this specialty. Several of his wins broke long standing records. He owed his successes to his exceptional mastery of sailing and of each one of his boats, to both physical and mental stamina and, in some cases, to technological improvements built into his boats. Through his victories, Tabarly inspired an entire generation of ocean racers and contributed to the development of nautical activities in France.
