The Weekend Sailor | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The 1973 story of a Mexican captain's impulsive decision to enter the first regatta to circumnavigate the globe. | dG1fQm11eVBwUk8wOGs

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00:3217 yachts from 7 nations are setting out on the world's longest ocean race.

00:377 months and 27,000 miles of hard sailing.

00:48Sayula is the most international boat in the race.

00:51Built in Finland to an American design

00:54and skippered by her Mexican owner, Ramon Carlin.

01:13They went through something 40 years ago that is completely unique.

01:17Yachting at that time was very nationalistic.

01:20They went for English boat or French boat.

01:23They couldn't use any foreigners.

01:25The English have always considered themselves the masters of the sea.

01:29All the best sailors in the Navy.

01:32They proposed the idea of launching this race

01:35with the absolute certainty that they were going to win.

01:40The French government designed a special sailboat,

01:43very powerful, very fast,

01:46with a good crew.

01:50They sort of said,

01:52Mexican, what the hell are you doing in a race like that?

01:55That is nothing for you.

01:58Before the departure in England,

02:01the English newspapers made fun of us.

02:05They put Mexicans with these wide hats

02:08and made caricatures,

02:10going around the winch, the sailboat,

02:13without knowing what to do,

02:15making balls with the rope of the sails.

02:27And I just said to him,

02:28I never start a race without intending to win it.