Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Reminder (Aisling tipped you off on Friday!), tonight on Channel 4 (UK) at 21:00hrs you can watch Deep Water.

The stunning true story of the fateful voyage of an amateur yachtsman who in 1968 enters the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

I’ve read about this story in Chris Bonnington’s ‘The Quest For Adventure’, a fantastic book I reviewed back in 2005.

It recounts the true, tragic story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor drawn dangerously out of his depth when he signed up for a sailing competition for the first ever single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. Not able to take the strain, Donald lies about his position in his logbooks and circles off the coast of South America for several months with the plan to re-join the race when the rest came back up the Atlantic and claim he’d also completed the trip. It’s a strategy that drives him slowly mad before he commits suicide by jumping overboard, by memory, leaving the boat on course for the finish.

Compassionate, tragic, troubling; this extraordinary documentary recounts one of the sailing community’s legendary stories.

Right now I’m currently watching “The Gadget Show” on ‘Five’ (UK) which is reviewing rugged camera, testing them in helicopters in Iceland over steamy volcanoes for vibration, easy of use in gloves, screen brightness & temperature capabilities.

-Robin-

(Image Credit: Front Cover of “Quest for Adventure” Book by the Author)