The Pacific islands convinced him to leave France and sail away
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The Pacific islands convinced him to leave France and sail away
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On July 21, 1929, a battered 39-foot sloop called Firecrest sailed alone into Cherbourg harbor, closing out a voyage of 700 days and 40,000 miles. Within months of that hero's welcome, the man aboard was already drawing plans for a new boat to sail away again. What made a decorated war hero and French tennis champion choose the islands of the Pacific over the life waiting for him at home?
In this episode, we follow Alain Gerbault from a tennis court in France to the decks of two boats he sailed alone across every major ocean, asking what a man discovers about home once he has spent seven hundred days trying to get back to it.
Person: Alain Gerbault
Location: Bora, French Polynesia
Date: December 16, 1941
Case: the circumnavigation and disappearance of a French solo sailor into the Pacific
Status: died of tropical fever in Dili, East Timor; buried six years later on Bora
- Gerbault sailed Firecrest, a 39-foot Dixon Kemp-designed sloop built in 1892, single
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