There were no signs that it had been catastrophically damaged by a.

Trimaran teignmouth electron. The pioneering computerised steering system wasnt ready and the hull was far too vulnerable to leaks. The boat that sailor Donald Crowhurst hoped would win. His experimental trimaran the Teignmouth Electron much of which he built himself left England on the last possible day leaving him weeks behind the rest of the fleet.

Crowhursts boat was ill prepared for the voyage which claimed his life and left his wife Clare a sea widow and his children fatherless. On the back of the main body are the other controls including a frequency selector volume control and switch for the lamp. On inspection the trimaran was deserted and a subsequent US Air Force search for Crowhurst followed to no avail.

The earpiece plugs into a socket on the bottom of the handle. Donald Crowhursts Teignmouth Electron was discovered mid-Atlantic 1800 miles from England at 750am on 10th July 1969 by the Royal Mail vessel Picardy that was en route from London to the Caribbean. Even her name was missing some souvenir hunter had sliced the Teignmouth out of the port side of the bow and the Electron off starboard no doubt to adorn some art project somewhere.

This was a trimaran sailboat owned by Donald Crowhurst and employed in his 1969 attempt to sail around the world solo and nonstop as part of the Sunday Times Gold Globe Race. By clicking OK you are confirming that this image is only to be used for the rights in the. He limped across the Atlantic making it as far as the coast of Brazil before surrendering to mechanical failure.

Racers were to leave the UK by October 31 1968 and Crowhursts trimaran Teignmouth Electron faced a race against time to be ready. The black and white photograph was taken from an aeroplane flying over the. You cannot download or purchase for any new licenses.

Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron Cayman Brac 16th of September 1998 features the decaying husk of a beached trimaran which was abandoned many years before by its owner and which has succumbed to the elements and rotted over time. The Mercy follows Donald Crowhursts disastrous attempts to win the 1968-69 race in his 41ft trimaran Teignmouth Electron. Actress Rachel Weisz gets a piggy-back ride on the beach at Teignmouth Devon during filming for a new biopic based on sailor Donald Crowhurst.