The mystery disappearance of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst during his attempt to sail solo around the world gripped Britain almost half a century ago. Now the tragic tale of how an inadequate ...

The scene is a grand seafront hotel in a West Country resort. The date is October 30, 1968. The master suite has just been vacated by The Beatles, no less, but tonight is occupied by a more unlikely ...

Simon Rumley unnervingly details the mental collapse of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst in the first of two current films on the subject Dir Simon Rumley. UK. 2017. 99 mins. In 1969, while competing in a ...

In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he was completing the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe. Then his boat was found, empty and adrift in the Atlantic.

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Why are film-makers obsessed with the story of doomed British sailor Donald Crowhurst? Two new films explore the mystery of the businessman and sailor who disappeared during the 1969 Golden Globe race ...

Little more than fibreglass and plywood remain of the Teignmouth Electron, which since 1988 has remained on the south-western end of the island where it has succumbed to a succession of hurricanes and ...

For Gambit, 2019 yields a new Crowhurst album, a new musical project, and an appearance at Roadburn... and that's just the beginning. Jay Gambit has been putting his time into extreme music for going ...

For the past week, Britain has been in the thrall of an extraordinary sporting challenge. Within 24 hours of the start of the Velux 5 Oceans, a three-stage solo round-the-world yacht race starting in ...

There’s something rather endearing about Simon Rumley’s small budget biopic in which he details the mental unravelling of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, just before his disappearance whilst trying to ...