Mo Zhai, the first one-man unpowered global navigator in China, was born in Xintai, Shandong Province, 1968, a navigator and artist. In 2009, he moved one of the top ten people in China.
He has lived in France and New Zealand, held many solo exhibitions, studied the history of western art and indigenous culture in the Pacific and Africa, and held exhibitions in Auckland Art Center.
He is a man who lives under the sky, above the sea, between the land and the island and enjoys the baptism of the sun, the sea and the wind.
He voluntarily fled the land and traveled around the world in a sailboat. There, there is neither a country nor a city, only absolute freedom, harsh nature and absolute loneliness.
Some people say that he makes people think that he was not conceived in his mother's womb, but a monster that broke out of a hard-boiled egg. He is like a leaf, still floating on the sea.
He said: He sailed for adventure, not adventure. So I always thought I could come back, not by luck.
He is a very unprofessional sailor, a mountain dweller in Tai 'an, and suddenly becomes a fisherman. However, his professional experience is more than his major, which is beyond the understanding of the Institute of Navigation.
He once said: sailing must consider the value of life, so you will master what you can as soon as possible.
He once said: shallow water is blue, deep water is gray-black, and the deeper it is, the darker it is. The beauty of the sea is bipolar, calm and stormy. As a sailor, you can't feel the charm of sailing without bad weather.
The most common sailing on the sea is sunrise and sunset, full of stars. He joked that he should have seen the most stars.
Of all the means of transportation, the boat is the most convenient and economical. You need a visa to drive, and you can go ashore anywhere by boat, as long as you go through simple customs clearance procedures. Sailing boats don't need fuel or shelter. If you master the way of ocean circulation, you will be free and simple to go anywhere. Life on the ship will also become very primitive.
The more dangers you experience, the more you expect to experience more dangerous situations next time. Sometimes people will enjoy the pleasure of exploring their endurance, which is the limit of self-abuse.
He once said: excessive fear is cruel, but this fear is his own choice. If someone forced him to sail around the world, he might have gone crazy. Every time I go to sea, I wish I could come back alive. Losing arms and legs is cruel, but it is normal for him. In this sense, extreme sports is self-abuse.
Experienced wind and rain, touched life and death, he will also yearn for the pastoral life of herding sheep in the east and releasing horses in the west, and his wife and children will be hot.
2. Resume
From February 2000 to August 5438+0, 2006, I sailed in New Zealand for a week, inspected the local Polynesian indigenous culture, and held an art exhibition in Auckland Art Center in September of the same year.
In September of 200 1 2000, he set off from Auckland, New Zealand, crossed the Madek and Tonga trenches in the South Pacific, and traveled all the island countries in the South Pacific.
In 2002, I moved into Renzhuang painter village in Songzhuang. On March 8, 2003, a self-driving sailboat set sail from Dalian. After 55 days and nights of sailing, with a voyage of more than 7,600 nautical miles, it arrived in Sanya, Hainan, and successfully completed the "China Maritime Miles".
From June 6th, 2007 to August 6th, 2009, Zhaimo set sail from Rizhao, China. After eight seasons of rotation, it leaves the country along the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, passing through Jakarta, Seychelles, Cape of Good Hope and Panama, crossing the Mozambique Strait and the Caribbean Sea, crossing the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and passing through Asia and the Pacific.
On August 16, 2009, China Sailing and Windsurfing Association awarded Mo Zhai the honorary title of "the first person to sail around the world in a single unpowered sailboat in China".
On September 9, 2009, the State Oceanic Administration hired Mo Zhai as the "Ambassador of Marine Public Welfare Image".
February 10, 20 1 1, was elected as the top ten people who moved China in 2009.
Sailing around the world alone is a thrilling and arduous journey, which greatly challenges people's limits on their own viability. After five days and five nights of storms in the Indian Ocean; Hold the rudder by hand 120 hours, reaching the edge of collapse; Illegally broke into the military restricted zone during the voyage and was taken to the island by American soldiers guarding the island; Being followed by pirates for three or four hours at sea ... Mo Zhai fought the wind and waves with strength, will and wisdom, and overcame death and loneliness.
Mo Zhai's voyage around the world showed the world that after Zheng He's voyage to the West, China people ended the long history of more than 600 years of unmanned navigation. This is not only the personal glory of Mo Zhai, but also the pride of the country and even the pride of friends around the world. Mo Zhai, driving an unpowered sailboat with the flag of China, once again proved the courage, pride, belief and wisdom of the people of China in the face of the sea with his own actions; It fully embodies the great national spirit of China people's perseverance and self-improvement.