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wrack

Emmanuel (#rip) and Maximilien Berque were twins. They are also among the greatest watermen — surfing pioneers, small-boat ocean sailors, instrument-less navigators, boatbuilders — you've never heard of.

livethelife.tv/a-65-year-long-

Inside Outside is their self-produced documentary of a trans-Atlantic crossing in a 6.5-metre wooden proa, with no navigational instruments, no electronics, no charts, no books, no radio, no liferaft, only the most basic food and no sponsors.

dailymotion.com/video/x5wyei0

A photographic portrait of Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque.
The Berques in a mid-Atlantic gale in their tiny monohull yacht Miicromegas 2.
The Berques building the 6.50 metre proa, Micromegas 3, at their home in south-west France.
The Berques at sea atop their tiny home-built proa, Micromegas 3.
7 Jul 2022 at 15:15 | Open on merveilles.town
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Devine Lu Linvega

@ccohanlon We don't have enough bandwidth to watch any of these docs, I'm looking forward to the fall when I can catch up on these.

7 Jul 2022 at 15:21 | Open on merveilles.town
wrack

@neauoire Have you read the Smeetons' The Misty Isles – similar route to your North Pacific adventure (including Japan)?

7 Jul 2022 at 15:28 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@ccohanlon I've only read the one when they get pitch poled. I'll have a look for it :)

7 Jul 2022 at 15:29 | Open on merveilles.town
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