# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-moitessier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:14:18.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-moitessier"
name: "Bernard Moitessier"
slug: "bernard-moitessier"
description: "Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor, most notable for his participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race. With the fastest circumnavigation time towards the end of the race, Moitessier was the likely winner for the fastest voyage, but he elected to continue on to Tahiti and not return to the start line in England, rejecting the idea of the commercialization of long distance sailing. He was a French national born and raised in Vietnam, then part of French Indochina."
tagline: "French boat navigator and writer (1925–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Bernard_Moitessier_Golden_Globe.jpg/330px-Bernard_Moitessier_Golden_Globe.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-04-10"
deathDate: "1994-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             0.4477611940298508
  historical:           9.838176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B5"
    title: "Бернар Моатесие"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Bernard Moitessier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitissier"
    title: "Bernard Moitissier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712565"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump