Donald Crowhurst

Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst was a British electronics engineer, businessman, and amateur sailor who disappeared while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968–1969. He secretly abandoned the race some weeks or months after departing, remaining in the Atlantic Ocean for seven months while reporting false positions. Contemporary reporting focused on his fraudulent reports and emphasised his actions as a hoaxer or "con man". However, with the passage of time, his story has tended to be reappraised as more of a maritime tragedy that, according to one recent author, "raises essential questions about the ethics of competition, solitude at sea and the psychological limits of sailors".

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