{"id":29845,"date":"2018-01-31T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29845"},"modified":"2018-01-31T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:27:35","slug":"donald-crowhursts-tragic-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/donald-crowhursts-tragic-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Crowhurst’s Tragic End"},"content":{"rendered":"

The are many famous sailing stories that have enchanted and inspired sailors and stirred their longing to go to sea. Most are tales of triumph over the challenges of the sea\u00a0 and end with safe landfalls. But one sailing story stands out from the rest and is more like a Greek tragedy than a sea story, full of delusions, deceptions and demons.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst was a best seller and now the tale has been made into a movie staring Colin Firth. Here’s an article published in <\/em>The Mirror that tells the real-life story behind new film <\/em>The Mercy: How sailor’s lies about epic voyage around the world led to a tragic end.<\/p>\n

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When inventor and sailing enthusiast Donald Crowhurst convinced himself he could complete the arduous Golden Globe Race, he began down a path that would take him to the edge of madness and ultimately his untimely death.\u00a0\u00a0The deluded\u00a0 Crowhurst was an inventor by profession and his bid to win a round-the-world yacht race turned into the biggest fabrication of all.\u00a0He convinced himself that he could triumph but his crazy attempt would never, not in a million years, be plain sailing.\u00a0For while weekend boater Crowhurst had a passion for\u00a0sailing\u00a0his sloop, he was no ocean-going expert and his leaky vessel was barely seaworthy.\u00a0When it was obvious his mission was doomed \u2013 and faced with mounting financial worries \u2013 he resorted to cheating. Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The are many famous sailing stories that have enchanted and inspired sailors and stirred their longing to go to sea. Most are tales of triumph over the challenges of the sea\u00a0 and end with safe landfalls. But one sailing story stands out from the rest and is more like a Greek tragedy than a sea story, full of delusions, deceptions and demons.\u00a0 \u00a0The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst was a best seller and now the tale has been made into a movie staring Colin Firth. Here’s an article published in The Mirror that tells the real-life story behind new film The Mercy: How sailor’s lies about epic voyage around the world led to a tragic end.   When inventor and sailing enthusiast Donald Crowhurst convinced himself he could complete the arduous Golden Globe Race, he began down a path that would take him to the edge of madness and ultimately his untimely death.\u00a0\u00a0The deluded\u00a0 Crowhurst was an inventor by profession and his bid to win a round-the-world yacht race turned into the biggest fabrication of all.\u00a0He convinced himself that he could triumph but his crazy attempt would never, not in a million years, be plain sailing.\u00a0For while weekend boater …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29846,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions\/29846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}