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Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 – July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race.
Soon after departing, his ship began taking on water and he wrote it would probably sink in heavy seas. He secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, in an attempt to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually doing so.
Trail Talk with Rocket and Stump - The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Rocket and Stump (and a couple of unnamed friends) head off trail and into the ocean as they share the strange, sad tale of Donald Crowhurst and an around-the-world sailing race. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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The Vanishing Sailor: Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe Race Mystery
In 1968, an amateur sailor named Donald Crowhurst set out from England in a homemade trimaran to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race—the first ever solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. But what began as a bold quest for fame and fortune soon turned into one of the most baffling...
989 - Teignmouth
Series 11 Episode 9 - TEIGNMOUTH (# 989 Visited 14/04/2025)Devon, England : Population 15,597 (Rank # 652)We pay homage to doomed single-handed sailor Donald Crowhurst as we, like him, wave goodbye to England for the final time.MUSICSailing By - Ronald BingeThe Deception - iLiKETRAiNSEternal Fath...
The Vanishing Sailor: Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe Race Mystery
In 1968, an amateur sailor named Donald Crowhurst set out from England in a homemade trimaran to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race—the first ever solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. But what began as a bold quest for fame and fortune soon turned into one of the most baffling...
Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 2
Donald Crowhurst is a brilliant inventor with a failing business. When he hears about the Golden Globe Race offering publicity and cash to the fastest to sail around the world, it feels like the perfect solution. Betting his business and his home on success, Crowhurst sets off in a high-tech trim...
A Solo Race, A Fake Journey, and a Breakdown No One Saw Coming
This week on The Creep Dive, Sophie brings us the truly bananas story of Donald Crowhurst, a hobbyist sailor, inventor, businessman and possible Olympic-level bluffer, who entered a solo round-the-world yacht race despite having a boat that was barely ready, a business that was collapsing, and a ...
Donald Crowhurst | The Man Who Faked a Voyage Around the World | SALVAGE SEA STORIES
In July 1969, a cargo ship discovered a small sailing vessel drifting in the North Atlantic. There was no sign of the man who should have been on board.
Donald Crowhurst had left Teignmouth eight months earlier to compete in the Golden Globe Race — a non-stop, solo sail around the entire world. H...
Ep. 18: Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – Solo Circumnavigation, Clipper Race, and the Spirit of Adventure
In Episode 18 of The Sailing Podcast, host Theo Stocker sits down aboard the iconic Suhaili with a man who needs no introduction: Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE. He is arguably the greatest sailor of all time.
As the first person to sail solo and non-stop around the world (1968 Golden Globe Race), S...
Donald Crowhurst - Sailing Into Silence
On June 30th, 1969, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, a sailing boat named Teignmouth Electron drifted alone. No lights were operational. No communication coming from its radio. And no sign of its captain onboard. When rescuers boarded her, they found no indication of a struggle or an accident...
Donald Crowhurst and the 1968 Golden Globe Sailing Race
In 1968, nine men set out to do something no one had ever done before: sail alone, nonstop, around the world. What followed became one of the strangest and most chaotic races in sailing history.It was a group of wildly different men who faced brutal weather, failing boats, isolation, obsession, d...
