This Man Might Change What 'Liar' Means to You

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst entered the first-ever Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop sailing race around the world. He had put his home and his failing business at risk to be there. He could not afford to fail. Within weeks at sea, he realized his half-finished trimaran would never survive the journey. So he did something no one expected. Instead of turning back and facing financial ruin, Crowhurst stayed in the Atlantic and began sending false position reports while secretly remaining thousands of miles from where the world believed he was. For months, it worked. The world began to believe he might win. And that became the one thing he could no longer afford. This documentary tells the true story of Donald Crowhurst, the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the trimaran Teignmouth Electron, the logbooks that revealed one of history's most extraordinary maritime deceptions, and how an ordinary man became trapped by a lie he could no longer escape. ⸻ 📖 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Royal Museums Greenwich — Alone at Sea: Donald Crowhurst and the story of solo yacht racing https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritim... Wikipedia — Donald Crowhurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_... Wikipedia — Teignmouth Electron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teignmo... Tomalin, Nicholas & Hall, Ron (1970) The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Deep Water (2006) Directed by Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell Golden Globe Race — Official History https://goldengloberace.com/the-history/ ▶ If you want more: The Mercy (2018) Directed by James Marsh, starring Colin Firth. #DonaldCrowhurst #GoldenGlobeRace #TeignmouthElectron #MaritimeHistory #Sailing #TrueStory #History #Documentary