Donald Crowhurst Aboard the Teignmouth Electron

Silent film shot by Donald Crowhurst aboard the Teingmouth Electron during his ill fated voyage as part of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race in 1968-69. The narration is a dramatic reading of his logbook. The Teignmouth Electron was found abandoned and logs, shown in this film, indicate that Crowhurst had violated the rules of the race by stopping to make repairs to his boat, and then began sending in false position reports. Crowhurst's writing becomes increasingly detached from reality, suggesting that he suffered a psychological crisis which may have led him to commit suicide by jumping overboard. My grandfather, Stanley Best, was Crowhurst's main sponsor.

Видео Donald Crowhurst Aboard the Teignmouth Electron канала Ann Murdoch