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4 unusual facts about Donald Crowhurst


Arthur Piver

Nigel Tetley was sailing a full-cabin version, Donald Crowhurst was in a Cox Marine flush-decker similar to Kelsall's 35' "Folatre."

Cayman Brac

The Teignmouth Electron, the boat in which Donald Crowhurst attempted to sail round the world single-handed in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, has been left to decay on the south coast of Cayman Brac.

Crowhurst

Crowhurst, Donald (1932–1969), English businessman and amateur sailor.

Donald Finkel

Some of Finkel's best-known poems include his 1968 work Answer Back about Mammoth Cave, Adequate Earth a 1972 book of poems about Antarctica, and his 1987 work The Wake of the Electron which was inspired by the story of sailor Donald Crowhurst, who died in 1969 while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.



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