Donald Crowhurst Story -- Deep Water

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Ereiss
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Donald Crowhurst Story -- Deep Water

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I was completely unfamiliar with the story of Donald Crowhurst and his quest to win the 1968 single handed around the world race. The video (in 9 parts) is on youtube and quite stunning.

Beautiful and powerful. I just had to share this.
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Ed,

I think that you forgot the link. Anyhow, here's a link that will return the video parts:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... +2006&aq=f

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I remembered this story from long ago. I was a Sabot sailor in Newport Beach, Cal as a young kid and recall hearing about Crowhurst's suicide. When I bought my Freedom 30 12 years ago and began singlehanding her I became a fan of the great Moitessier and his decision to abandon the race and sail on. I'm one of those oddballs that can completely relate to his decision. I wish I had one one hundredth of that guy's skill.

I had heard of the movie Deep Water but never watched it. Thanks so much for posting the link, it was a fantastic documentary.

The fate of Crowhurst's boat is particularly haunting. She lies broken up, ashore, on Cayman Brac. You can see a rough outline of the boat on Google Earth. Some folks have added pictures of the wreck. They are viewable if you enable the appropriate layer in Google Earth. There's a stark, tragic quality to the tableau.
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The film Deepwater is available on DVD from Amazon.

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