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.