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Place of Birth: Santander, Cantabria, Spain
About Vital Alsar
- Vital Alsar RamÃrez (born on August 7, 1933, in "Calle Alta" in Santander, Cantabria, Spain) is a sailor and scientist who has made several extremely long sailing expeditions.
- His entire life has been linked to nature and the sea.
- He became professor of economics, although he never acted as such. During his Military service in Morocco, Alsar read a book about the Kon-Tiki, the expedition that Thor Heyerdahl conducted a balsa raft on the Pacific.
- Reading this account led to his interest in duplicating the feat, to sailing 3,770 nautical miles (6,980 km; 4,340 mi). After his military service, he lived in France, Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Canada.
- It was in Canada where he met Marc Modena, who became his traveling companion.
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