Longest Continuous Voyage

Interesting article from the Nymag about a man who decided to set the world record for continuous sailing, over 1000 days at sea. He was originally joined by his girlfriend but she had to stop due to chronic sea-sickness (which turned out to be pregnancy). The whole thing is very readable. The guy is kind of an odd duck, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to suggest that he wasn't really a part of society even before he left.
The article is interspersed with quotes from Bernard Moitessier, who was kind of a sea going mystic. My favorite is:

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, and it is as simple as a ray of sunshine, as normal as the blue of the sky.

Which sounds totally cool until you remember the people left behind.