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# Jean-du-Sud

The ordinary tales of an extraordinary sailboat.

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [Jean-du-Sud in Practical Boat Owner](https://en.jeandusud.com/jean-du-sud-in-practical-boat-owner/) - Jean-du-Sud can be seen in an article about windvanes. The article mentions Caphorn products. There is a deep history connecting Jean-du-Sud to CapHorn products. You cean read about it here.
- [Au Large](https://en.jeandusud.com/au-large/) - Here is a great video from la Fabrique Culturelle on sailboat production in Québec (french only). We can see Jean-du-Sud for a few seconds.
- [Four Inches](https://en.jeandusud.com/four-inches/) - This is what four inches of paper maps look like.

## Pages

- [About Jean-du-Sud](https://en.jeandusud.com/) - Jean-du-Sud is the 399th hull of the Alberg 30 model. She is known for her circumnavigation in the movie « With Jean-du-Sud Around the World » by Yves Gélinas.
- [How to Use Magick Byrd](https://en.jeandusud.com/how-to-use-magick-byrd/)
- [How to Weave A Magick Byrd](https://en.jeandusud.com/how-to-weave-a-magick-byrd/) - Connect the Pilot Oizo-Matick Cut four stips into two lists of Magick Paper Or use fronds of Magick Coconut if you are already underway. Weave two wings Identick one into the other To shape the body, fold back and weave again. What comes out atwarthships, reroute fore and aft Pull tight Knot a head, Curl a
- [Epilogue](https://en.jeandusud.com/epilogue/) - Note: Excerpt from a speech by Yves Gélinas given April 17 1985, at a meeting of school directors. You have asked me to talk about the values I have discovered during this 282-day single-handed voyage. I spent some time asking myself what I could tell you : I did not have any visions… I had
- [Magick](https://en.jeandusud.com/magick/) - In the early seventies, I had read several books on spirituality; The Adventure of Consciousness, by Satprem (the most important, recounting the experience of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother), as well as many others, including those by Carlos Castañeda, describing the teaching of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.From these many readings, I had concluded that
- [Jean-du-Sud and the Magick-Byrd](https://en.jeandusud.com/jean-du-sud-and-the-magick-byrd/) - After a few cruises between Québec and the West Indies, then a sail to Europe, I felt the need for a long voyage around the Great Capes, alone aboard my Alberg 30 Jean-du-Sud. I knew its hull was strong and seaworthy, but it would need a stronger mast and rigging, new sails, self-steering... I had
- [](https://en.jeandusud.com/1644-2/) - Awards received by the film Jean-du-Sud (part one) (Narrates the first leg of the voyage, 52 min.) La Rochelle International Film Festival (France, October 1983) Palme d'Or (unanimous jury) Prix de la Presse Jean-du-Sud (part two) (Narrates the second leg of the voyage, 52 min.) Toulon International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival (France, June 1984)
- [The Making of the Film](https://en.jeandusud.com/the-making-of-the-film/) - Note: Article published in French, in Format Cinéma No 47, January 1986. When this was written, video equipment did not attain the quality it does nowadays. As soon as I made the decision to work at preparing this single-handed non-stop voyage from Saint-Malo, in France, to Gaspé, Québec, the other way around the world by
- [Introduction to the Movie](https://en.jeandusud.com/introduction-to-the-movie/) - Presentation by Yves Gélinas at the Joshua Slocum Centennial Dinner (June 27 1998) It is a great honor for me,at this occasion of the celebration of the Slocum centennial,to be invited to present to youmy personal contributionto the art of sailing a small boatsingle-handed around the world. A few years ago, I was in Saint-Malo,
- [The « Performance » of Yves Gélinas](https://en.jeandusud.com/the-performance-of-yves-gelinas/) - As Yves Gélinas was sailing around the world, people were talking of a new art form called “Performance” which combined disciplines in various fields of expression. In attempting to sail non–stop between Saint-Malo and Gaspé through the Roaring Forties and around Cape Horn alone aboard his boat Jean-du-Sud, Yves Gélinas would add his personal share
- [The Movie « Jean-du-Sud Around the World »](https://en.jeandusud.com/the-movie-jean-du-sud-around-the-world/) - Gélinas was an actor and filmmaker before he went sailing. His goal was to create a work of art that would paint a moving picture of his voyage and become his "masterpiece". Jean-du-Sud was awarded the Palme D'Or twice at the prestigious La Rochelle International Sailing Film Festival: in 1983 for Part One, the story
- [Cruise of Jean-du-SudOct. 2015 – April 2016](https://en.jeandusud.com/cruise-of-jean-du-sudoct-2015-april-2016/)
- [Biographical Notes and Cruises aboard Jean-du-Sud](https://en.jeandusud.com/biographical-notes-and-cruises-aboard-jean-du-sud/) - Born Jan. 17, 1939 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Studies in Montréal. 1958-61 : Trained professionally as an actor at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique du Québec. 1961-70 : Actor, director and producer for stage and television. 1963-66, Summer cruises in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf as crew and skipper on various boats. 1967 : Purchased 24
- [My Destiny as A Sailor](https://en.jeandusud.com/my-destiny-as-a-sailor/) - Note: Published in Blue Water Sailing, July 2010. During his last single-handed ocean passage, Yves Gélinas, aged 69, reflects back on his destiny as a sailor I just sailed out of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago, headed for St-Martin in the West Indies. This passage marks the term of a seven summer cruise in
- [Meet the Sailing Inventor Who Circumnavigated in an Alberg 30](https://en.jeandusud.com/meet-the-sailing-inventor-who-circumnavigated-in-an-alberg-30/) - Note: The following article was written by Karen Larsen and published in the Good Old Boat magazine, Issue 30 (May/June 2003). Words fail the writer who would describe Yves Gélinas. Maverick? Free spirit? Innovator? Genius? Adventurer? Dreamer? One who achieves his dreams? He deserves all of these appellations and more. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Yves
- [Forty Years later, I Would Still Choose an Alberg 30](https://en.jeandusud.com/forty-years-later-i-would-still-choose-an-alberg-30/) - This article was written by Yves Gélinas in 2016 for the 40th anniversary of Jean-du-Sud. It refects her configuration of the time and his part of Jean-du-Sud's history.
- [50 Years](https://en.jeandusud.com/50-years/) - Itinerary and Crew of the First Fifty Years of Cruising of Jean-du-Sud Yves Gélinas I purchased an Alberg 30, hull 399, named Gump from Philip Calnan in July 1973 based in Port Hope ON, renamed it Jean-du-Sud and sailed it from there to Lake Champlain. In the fall, I continued south with Alain Arsenault (Alain
- [About Yves Gélinas](https://en.jeandusud.com/about-yves-gelinas/) - You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all. Benoit Moitessier Yves Gélinas is an award winning sailor, inventor, cinematographer, writer and manufacturer best known for his solo circumnivagation with Jean-du-Sud in the years 1981-1983. He was Jean-du-Sud's skipper from

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