Single-handed sailing
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The sport and practice of single-handed sailing or solo sailing is sailing with only one crewmember. The term usually refers to ocean and long-distance sailing and is used in competitive sailing and a
A sailor tethered to the boat for safety as he reefs sails.
Bernard Gilboy and his 18 ft schooner Pacific
Donald Crowhurst
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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-wo
Crowhurst in 1968
Tribute to Crowhurst, New Quay Inn, Teignmouth
Part of one of the bows of the trimaran Teignmouth Electron. When photographed in March 2011, little identifiable as a boat remained of the wreck above a beach on Cayman Brac. Showing the name Teignmouth and part of the hole where a souvenir hunter has removed Electron.