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.

Trimaran teignmouth electron. M17F8N RM Teignmouth Devon UK. The new film The Mercy starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz tells the story of the doomed voyage. Donald Crowhurst was in over his head before even leaving the dock.

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. It has previously been bought for a multiple re-use license which is still valid. The boat that sailor Donald Crowhurst hoped would win.

By clicking OK you are confirming that this image is only to be used for the rights in the. The earpiece plugs into a socket on the bottom of the handle. 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.

Crowhursts boat was ill prepared for the voyage which claimed his life and left his wife Clare a sea widow and his children fatherless. 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. The black and white photograph was taken from an aeroplane flying over the.

The wreckage is all that remains of Teignmouth Electron the yacht on board which Donald Crowhurst intended to complete the round-the-world race for the Sunday Times 5000 prize in 1968. The Mercy follows Donald Crowhursts disastrous attempts to win the 1968-69 race in his 41ft trimaran Teignmouth Electron. Quest provided support for the filming of The Mercy which involved road transport of the recreated trimaran Teignmouth Electron from specialist boat builders Heritage Marine at Maldon in Essex to Portlan.

Im not really sure how long it has been lying on the beach near the Kidco Dock but since at least 1988 when Hurricane Gilbert hit Cayman Brac as this was the. The pioneering computerised steering system wasnt ready and the hull was far too vulnerable to leaks. 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.