The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall

Author:Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 1969-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

ENJOYED ROUND THE HORN SAILING TOWARDS TRINIDAD WITH LAST SOUTHEAST TRADE AND BRAZIL CURRENT

Hallworth rightly worked out that ‘round the Horn sailing’ meant round-the-Horn-type sailing. And he realised that Crowhurst could not mean he was en route to Trinidad in the West Indies. But somehow in the exegesis that appeared in various newspapers over the following week, Crowhurst was said to be approaching (and soon afterwards passing) Tristan da Cunha. Crowhurst had never mentioned Tristan in his telegrams, and it can only be assumed that out of a mixture of euphoria, optimism and innocence, Hallworth had selected it as the most likely correction for ‘Trinidad’.

Tristan, it should be explained, is on the clipper route but 1,800 miles further on than Trinidade, the island to which Crowhurst meant he was heading. Trinidade, in turn, was 350 miles beyond the position marked on Crowhurst’s fake route. And that, in its turn was 550 miles ahead of where Crowhurst actually was.

From this point, the Press coverage of the voyage became absurd. The only journalist to emerge with credit was the Observer’s yachting correspondent, Frank Page, who, perhaps puzzled by the reports, ‘presumed’ Crowhurst to be somewhere in the South Atlantic. (He was just right: Teignmouth Electron had crossed the Equator into the South Atlantic only five days previously.)

Crowhurst also, that Christmas Eve, got out his BBC tape recorder, as he had done in previous moments of crisis, and began talking into the microphone.

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