Topic: Donald Crowhurst

In 1967, the UK Sunday Times sponsored a yacht race. A British merchant marine officer, Robin Knox-Johnston approached the Sunday Times for sponsorship to undertake the voyage non-stop singlehandedly and to beat the time set by Chichester. leaving Knox-Johnston, Moitessier, Tetley and ...

7 Disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an infamous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico that has been the location of strange disappear?ances throughout history. Who said that the Bermuda Triangle ...

DVDs of the week

Brit rom-com Starter For 10, The Best Of Saturday Live, Ghosts, and the true story of an English eccentric's quest to sail round the world, are all released on DVD this week. Ghosts Tartan Video, 15, ??19.99 *** For his first ...

Chicanery on the high seas

A well-crafted documentary about Donald Crowhurst's abortive attempt to win the single-handed round-the-world yacht race of 1968, Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell's film answers every question you might have, except exactly how the sailor died. We do know that he ...