WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: Donald Crowhurst 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:16.079 Thinking Sideways. I don't know. You never know stories of 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.160 things we simply don't know the answer too. Hi there, 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.840 Welcome to another hard hitting episode of Thinking Sideways, the 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:32.159 podcast that takes No prisoners. I'm Joe, joined as always 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.440 with my lovely co host and Steve. Yeah. I get 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.080 to be the lovely one this time, you do. They're 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.360 just being nice to me today. It's fine if you're 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.600 quite attractive. Yeah. So we're gonna like, we're gonna solve 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.159 another mystery today. So you guys ready, Yeah? Okay, Well, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.320 let me start from the top. This is about a 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.240 guy named Donald Crowhurst, British guy. And before I go 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.080 any further, I want to give a shout out to 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.720 our listener Karen, who suggested this, So thanks Karen. Yeah, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.679 this one's been in a hopper for a while. Yeah, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.800 it's been on a hopper for a long time. Karen, 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.920 who knows she might not even be listening anymore, of 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.640 course she is. We've betterr addicted. Okay, let's talk about 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:21.160 Donald Crowhurst. October thirty one nine, Mr Crowhurst sets sail 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.200 from the town of Tyne with England to sail his 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:29.479 forty foot single massive Trymaran Trymaran the Tynemoth Electron around 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.200 the world as part of the contest. So let me 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.920 give you a back some backgrounds to when this began. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.600 In the spring of nineteen, the Sunday Times of London 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.520 announced to challenge, which they called the Golden Globe NonStop 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.880 around the World yacht race. They challenged volunteers to come 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.160 forward and tackle this because it was no not just NonStop, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:53.000 but by yourself single handed. Yeah, so go figure only 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.640 nine people actually step forward to take part of this offer. Yeah, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.400 I know, the first band to make a home would 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.880 win the Golden Globe whatever that is. And I assume 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.920 it's different from the Golden Global Awards we have here, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.760 so it's definitely different. Yeah. And then there was also 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.000 a five five thousand pound prize, which five thousand pounds 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.120 is about eighty thousand pounds today, which roughly about a 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.280 hundred and sixty right around there, So five thousand dollar 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.640 prize for whoever had the fastest time or in the world. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.079 So yeah, their nine step forward, but five of the 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.679 nine dropped out early, so I'm not gonna bother telling 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.240 you their names. But oh and if you're wondering why 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.480 the Sunday Times decided to do this. They there was 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.960 a guy at Francis Chichester who had done this the 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.120 year before under the sponsorship of another British paper, and 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.919 it was a big, big sensation. Uh, it really bumped 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.920 into the paper sales and stuff like this, and so 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.959 they thought it then a little, a little, a little 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.240 bit of invitation would be good. So Chichester did it, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.359 and he did it in a fairly decent amount of time. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.200 And he did but he stopped on the way. Yeah, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.200 you just stopped to make repairs exactly. What's just like 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.760 when you think about it, getting around the world NonStop 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.440 without going on shore to get supplies and make repairs. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.200 I mean, it's like, well, and I think what people 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.280 need to keep in mind is that the route that 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.360 these guys are taking is there. They're sailing from England 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:22.280 south then going around the Horn of Africa and basically 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.600 staying in Do they call it the Roaring forties? Is 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.280 that the latitude where that's yeah, that's roughly the Roaring forties, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.119 But if you when you go around Cape Horn, you're 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.600 you're in the Furious fifties, Yes, which are terrible sea. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.760 I've actually been at Tierra del Fuegos, you know, and 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.080 I've experienced that win and that was in January, which 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.320 is their summertime, and it was incredibly ferocious, unbelievable, So 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.400 no wonder that, you know, as he's sailing through that area, 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.960 and then he rounded the tip of South Africa. I 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.880 think that's where he stopped to make repairs. Is that correct, Joe. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.440 I don't remember where he stopped, or you might have 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.080 stopped in Australia, which but he had to stop because 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.960 or something. But this, this is the thing that really 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.840 kind of nestifies me about this particular race, is why 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.360 they had them go to the route that they did. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.960 Because the Roaring forties and the Furious fifties basically circumnavigate 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.840 the South Pole. They go around there and theything the 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.400 they go around it from west to east. And so 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.920 when you're in a sailboat, you want to and you're 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.040 in really gusty, strong winds like that, you want to 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.640 be heading into the wind and not running off the wind, 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.400 because if you're running off the wind and a sudden 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.200 huge gust hits you and you've got a lot of 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.919 cloth out, then it can rip your rip your mast off, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.280 whereas if you're heading into the wind, then your boat 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.159 just lays down and it comes back up again. So 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:45.880 so you're saying that they should have had them go 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.760 the opposite way around. They should have had them go 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.520 the opposite way around. Yeah, that's what I would do. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.120 I'd sneak to Panama. Yeah, of course these guys are. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.200 But of course you've got two guys in this race 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.200 who were doing raymer Rands and a tramar Ran going 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.520 into the wind around Cape Horn, for example. I don't 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.599 know how well that would do. They probably would just 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:12.159 flip right over and is a three whole boat essentially exactly. Yeah, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.520 I was going to talk about the tremor Ran in 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.360 the second here. But so anyway, the times, we're kind 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.080 of going all over the place here, but the times 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.120 essentially that was a motivation for doing this was publicity. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.400 And as I said, they got nine takers there then 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.880 five of them dropped out early. So the remaining four 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:34.520 were a French sailor named Bernard Monteschier, a former British 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.480 former merchant seaman named Robin Knox Johnston, and a former 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.280 naval officer named Nigel Tetley. I like that name. Is 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:46.000 so British. Yeah. And also the fourth guy, guy named 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.080 Donald Crowhurst, who was an amateur. I mean, he was 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.680 a guy. He's a guy that's like sailed in the 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.440 English Channel and stuff. He's not he'd never actually made 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:58.200 an ocean crossing the sailboat. He's a weekend yeah yeah, yeah, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.120 a competent enough sailor. But now he was he was 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.200 he was taking out a big project here. Yeah, So 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.719 a little bit about Donald Crowhurst. He was an entrepreneur 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.920 and an amateur sailor, and he had started a small 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.960 computer business which was called Electron Utilization Limited. He and 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.080 he invented. He was an inventor and tinker, and he 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.800 invented device called the Navigator, which is a radio direction 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.039 to finding device that actually I don't know if it 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.919 was actually the Navigator or the lore m, but it 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:30.080 eventually became widely used. And so it basically triangulated on 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.920 radio signals from shore to tell you what your position 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:38.960 replace the compass. Yeah, and we're talking this is GPS 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.080 is night. We got to have something. Yeah, so in 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.520 those days, yeah, I mean it's a lot of people 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.520 in those days were still using Sexton's of course, but 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.080 to know he thought this would be a really cool, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.080 spiffy way too, and he was he was not really 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.280 into navigation that much, so I think it appealed to 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.960 him to have something that would be easier to use 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:01.360 and the old traditional you know, mapping this. Yeah you know, yeah, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.800 I mean so that like sextondance and charts in the list, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.760 So you know, I think that's why he invented this thing. Um. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.640 But the problem was is he thought it was gonna 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.720 make him a lot of money, but as so far, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.480 he wasn't selling many of them at all, and so 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.320 when the Golden Globe race was announced, he was in 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.040 pretty dire financial straits and I think that he thought 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.920 the cash prize would keep him afloat until he finally 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.560 got his business off the ground. And so that was 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.040 his big motivation. And maybe he liked attention to maybe 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.520 feel maybe you don't like that would be a way 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.960 to call attention to his business. He would get all 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.280 this notoriety and he's going like, yeah, hey, you know that, 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.400 you know why just by the way, I've got this 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.200 device called the navigator. Well, especially if like maybe he 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.000 made use of it to like win this competition, right 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.000 if you say, oh, you know, I couldn't have done 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.160 it as quickly if I hadn't been using this invention 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.200 that I had, you know, because I would have been 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.480 so tied up trying to navigate by the stars, and 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.400 I wouldn't have done it nearly as fast. So you 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.200 know that's also as ability. Yeah, I don't really have 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.320 any information on that about whether he actually used his navigator. Yeah, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.400 he didn't. I don't think he had had to actually 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.360 use it. I think he could have just said when 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.800 he won, and I used this thing. Yeah, I don't 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.520 remember ever seeing any but it's really hard to say, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.520 but I don't remember seeing anything saying he was using it. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.560 Hard to know what his plan was upon return, Yeah, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.520 I don't know. Okay. He unfortunately didn't have the kind 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.560 of money that he needed to buy himself a big 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.640 old boat to the world, and so he persuaded a 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.920 local millionaire named Stanley Best to sponsor his entry and 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.760 buy him a boat, and they commissioned a boatyard to 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.760 build this trimar Ran, and the millionaire Best bank rolled 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.640 the trimar Ran, but he made Crowhurst sign an agreement 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.040 which stated that if he backed out of the race, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.120 or if he dropped out early, he'd have to buy 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:55.319 the boat back, and he mortgaged. He Crowhurst mortgage his 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.560 house and his business against this boat, everything everything he 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.280 had against his boat. And so yeah, he was he 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.040 was committed. He was extremely committed. He also hired a 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.280 publicistem Rodney Halworth, who was a former crime reporter for 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:14.199 a couple of British newspapers, and Halworth was instrumental actually 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.160 and kicking up. He did a really good job back 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.920 at home and taking any any dribbles of news that 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.680 he got from Crowhurst and and get disseminated to the 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.760 media and whipping up a frenzy of excitement about this 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.160 whole thing. Yeah, race fever. But the deadline was leaving. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.560 I didn't mention the deadline for leaving England, did I? 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:38.559 Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, the deadlight for leaving 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.400 was Halloween. It was October thirty one, which was the 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.120 last I think that was because it was the last 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.480 day they figured anybody could safely get around the whole 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.000 around the Cape of Good Hope. Yeah, yeah, exactly, So 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.800 they figured that that is a safety measure, and then 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.360 they would have and also you got to kind of 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.040 have a cut off. You can't have somebody like leaving 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.720 a year later. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't work. That doesn't 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.280 really work, right. Crowhurst actually did not get his trim 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.480 ran until pretty shortly before the race deadline, and he 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.720 said he only had about four weeks to outfit the 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.199 boat and get all this gear together and get ready 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.480 for this voyage. So, needless to say, he was kind 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.200 of behind all the other ones who had already left 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.240 long before. And uh so he wind up leaving on 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.760 the day of the deadline, October thirty one. And was 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.920 it fastest in time or like the first person back 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.199 first person back at the Golden Globe? Okay, and whoever 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.680 whoever of the four would get the five thousand pounds 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.240 if that was fast, So they counted like how many 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.760 days it took them, not like who was back first exactly? Okay, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:51.600 exactly okay? Yeah, So so Crowhurst if if, say too, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.679 if all the guys ahead of him beat him in 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.920 and he still came in after them, he could still 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.720 have won that prize right with less days? Yeah okay, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.439 But anyway, let's go back to October thirty one. That's 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.679 the day he set out from Tynemouth, England. And now 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.120 I'm going to depart again. I'm gonna get to do 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.679 a little travel like stuff. Time with is a quint 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.800 little sea coast town on the English Channel. I took 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:18.400 a tour of it on Google Street. I ran over 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:23.040 several pedestrians and that's what I love about that. I 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.800 think I started at least a hundred cars. Yeah, so sorry, Timemouth. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.079 I apologized, But I do want to say, if any 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.120 of our listeners are from Time with You, people really 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.959 do have a picturesque little town, and would that be 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.400 a great I want to write to Google and say 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.120 I want something to want to run over to somebody 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:45.560 in Google Streets. I got a yell or screw for it. Yeah, Okay, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.240 back back to our sea boydge. Enough of that. So 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.720 Crowherst estimated that the Tynemouth Electron could sell two twenty 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.959 miles a day. Why did Why did he name it? 0:11:55.040 --> 0:12:00.960 The time? I can't say, Yeah, and his company was 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.880 when I've just been sitting here thinking about what a 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:11.480 dumb name that, But I get it now. Yeah, But 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.320 it turns out that his claim that it could do 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.360 two twenty miles a day was pretty optimistic. And here's 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.560 what I'm gonna talk about trying a runts a little bit. There. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.480 They are fast boats. There's threethold boats. They're faster than 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.320 mono hole boats by long ways because they have less 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.360 wedded surface, but they have a tendency to capsize when 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.720 sailing close to the wind unfortunately, and they also can't 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.520 sail all that close to the wind, which really cuts 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.800 down in your progress. There was a guy named former 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.800 davy guy I think, or maybe even current nating guy 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.560 named Peter Eden. So he sailed with Crowhurst from a 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.360 town of cows to time from work from what you departed, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:52.000 and he reported that the time with electron was very fast, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.720 but it could get no closer to the wind than 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.480 sixty degrees. So that means when you're lucky enough to 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.960 have a tail wind, you can make good time. But 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.240 if you're sailing into the wind, you're gonna be tacking 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.440 so hard and so far out of your course that 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.719 you're gonna make very very slow progress. I feel like 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.400 I'm just sitting here smiling and nodding because none of 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.160 this makes any sense to me. Here's here's Here's what 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.000 it means is tacking out of the wind means you're 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.440 kind of doing a zigzag and correct me if I'm 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.160 wrong here, Joe. But you're you've got a direction, so 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.440 you're going to go forward, you kind of hang a 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.079 bit of a ninety degree and then you come back 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.079 into force. Attacking make sense to me. It's the rest 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.480 of this is just you know, it's all sailors apologize. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.240 I'm so used to stuff. But yeah, attacking. For those 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.640 of you who don't are not aware of what that 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.080 is is a sailboat cannot obviously not sailed directly into 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.880 the wind, into the oncoming wind, and the oncoming wind, yeah, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.440 it has, So that's what you have to do what's 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.920 called tacking. And depending on your boat, your boats design 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.640 and everything, and the kind of sails that you have, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.480 you can get pretty close to the wind. And close 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.560 to the wind means if the wind is at zero degrees, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.320 and say you can get as close as say thirty degrees, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.959 and that means you're at thirty degrees one side or 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.320 the other. Your s is that way, your boat is, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.560 your boat is in that in that direction. So and 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.960 what you do is and the way and the way 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.560 the sailboats work is when you're running off the wind, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.679 you're getting pushed by the wind. When you're running into 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 the wind, then your cell is sort of you know 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.880 how flu set, it's kind of curved, and you stretch 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.600 it out real good and everything, and then that oncoming 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:29.000 wind is going right across that sail, and in the 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.600 Bernoulli effect, you know what that is, Okay, the Bernulli 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.600 effect create a low pressure thing, and a low pressure 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.080 zone is created on the outside of the sail, and 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.040 the sail is pulled forward so that when it's when 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.360 you're sailing into the wind and the sailboat, you're not 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.600 being pushed, You're being pulled by the wind. I feel 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.240 like we just did a tiny little episode of how 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:51.000 how stuff works. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, so that's sorry, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.600 sorry for the board, but that's what a tacking is 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.960 very helpful. Yeah yeah, and so it's so what you 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.240 do is you go, you go a little, you go 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.920 aways in one direction and then the hells when you 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.000 I was out ready about and all the hands like 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.000 they loosened up the jib and and then you swing 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.920 the tiller over the side and you and you go 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.560 across your your line of direction that the line of 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.160 directions were literally Yeah, I think many of us just 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.120 need to like ye, fall into the calm, deep voice 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.560 of Joe and just like just just kind of jump 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.360 on board and say, all right, he knows what he's 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.760 talking about, and it doesn't really matter that much. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.120 I guess it doesn't really matter. But just just to 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.000 say that if you can't get any closer than sixty 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.080 degrees to the wind, and you're gonna have some pretty 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.880 slow going when you've got houtcoming wind. So this guy, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.200 Peter Eden uh said that Crowhurst had a tendency to 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.000 fall overboard. And they were in the town of Cows 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.280 apparently fell overwards several times. Three times. Yeah, yeah, And 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.640 and when they were getting aboard the boat to go 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:53.240 to Tynmouth, he fell aboard as abard he fell overboard. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.280 But otherwise Eden said that Crowhurst was a pretty good sailor. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.720 He did say that he was a bit sloppy about navigation, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.920 but he was definitely was actually a pretty good sailor. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.960 But Crowhurst, we should not, as we've not it already, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.240 didn't have any open ocean sailing experience, and it's totally different, right, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.920 pretty much. I think that you when you see a 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.160 lot more stuff can happen, you know, Yeah, you don't get. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.440 You don't get crazy big waves and stuff like that. Yeah, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.360 when you're when you're in the channel or sailing close 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.440 to close to shore and the storm shows up, you know, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.360 you just go home real fast. Yeah yeah. You can't 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.520 do that when you're in the open ocean. Yeah yeah. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.840 So any way, he left and he was sending back 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.120 occasional radio messages. But according to his logs were read 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.680 later on and after a few weeks to see heat 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.640 average no more than a hundred thirty miles a day, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.280 and he had barely passed the coast of court Portugal, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.000 So that not far at all. Really, do you think 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.800 about two weeks and he's only made to Portugal and 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.800 at this point and he's all he's also radio going 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.000 back some some somewhat dishonest accounts of his speed. He's 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.080 actually exagger reading his position and the speeds that he's 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.399 attaining a bit back on the boat. According to his logs, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.879 it's apparent that he was starting to realize that he 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.640 was way out of his depth, and he actually wrote 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.639 in his log that he he estimated his odds of 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:20.159 surviving around the world trip at so I feel like 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.720 that may even be optimistic though, like from everything that 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.359 we know about him, like if he had the tendency 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:30.840 to fall overboard, like you're alone in the middle of 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.000 the ocean, well, and think about this too, and he's 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.840 if he's off the coast of Portugal, that's in a 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.359 fairly temperate zone, the weather is not too harsh, and 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.080 he's got to be thinking. So if he's already having 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.480 second thoughts, he's he's thinking, oh my god, the weather 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.240 when I'm passing the capes is going to be brutal, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.080 and my odds of survival are pretty slim. So yeah, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.920 because running those caps is tough. And also another reason 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.480 for his low spirits is the boat is sprung a league, 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.960 So that's random boat. Yeah, well that was a problem 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.119 in the boat had never been tested. It was a 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.320 new design, and I'm sure Joe did and I don't know. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.760 Did you see the pictures of his boat. It's actually 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.280 really cool looking because it's super flat on the top. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.040 It's just got this eitty bitty window that's you know, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.399 it looks like it sticks up maybe a foot off 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.720 of the top of the boat. Very streamlined, very cool 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.720 looking boat. It was a new design, they never tested 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.320 it and you know, the only way he could get 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.560 water out because he sprung a leak is that the 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.760 thing didn't have pumps, so he used a bucket to 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.720 go open it up and bucket the water out and 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.000 then seal it back up. It's gotta be it's gonna 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.320 be hard on morale. Well, and think about it again. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.880 It's just like you said, he's in good seas when 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.480 he's doing that. Yeah, And when you're in bad seas 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.560 run in the cape. Are you gonna have time to 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.119 to go out and go down and you're gonna be 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:57.760 able to leave the till and go down and do 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.639 some bailing. Yeah. Yeah, So he's that he's got to 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.000 have that on his mind. Well, and did you I 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.320 don't know if either of you came across the reason 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:10.679 that he chose the design. Yeah, why he chose You 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.159 said they were they were faster. Well, they're faster, but 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.360 they also will tip in a situation like the see 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.639 talking about. He thought he had to work around for that. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.719 So his workaround was and he wasn't an inventor kind 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.200 of guy, so his idea was to have a big, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.080 big bladder that could fill with their at the top 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.080 of the mast because one of those things go over, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.879 of course they're gonna completely capsize. The idea was that 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.440 this bladder when I think he had like leveling mechanism 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.399 like detectors, maybe mercury switches on on the deck, something 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.840 like that. And the idea was it when it started 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.080 to go over, that thing would activate and boosh, it 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.040 would fill it with air or CEO two or something 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.040 and inflate that thing and stopped the boat from capsizing. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.440 And then he had he had come up with an 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.320 idea to put some pipes and tanks in the outer 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.480 in the outer holes, and that way he could pump 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.600 water into whatever hole is sticking up highest. Yeah, and 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.080 he put and make it heavier, and then just count 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.920 on wave action like an oncoming wave would once he's 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.119 got once he's got enough weight in that in that 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.080 upper hole, an oncoming wave would raise the top of 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:17.840 the mast high enough to cause the whole boat to 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.840 just raise out of the water and tip back down. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:21.800 The problem is, of course, again he didn't have the 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.720 boat long enough. As far as I know, he never 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.639 got those things in. No, No, he didn't. So and 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.960 and by the way, when he gave himself the odds 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.920 fifty odds were if he got his safety gear all installed. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.159 he was. He had a big delomma here because he 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.600 realized that he needed to drop out of the race 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.400 or die. But if he dropped out of the race, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.879 he'd lose everything he owned. That's tough, yeah, very tough choice. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.879 So apparently he hatched a plan. He would just noodle 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.399 around to the South Atlantic for a while, occasionally radio 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.080 false positions telling say I'm in the Indian Ocean and 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.720 you know, hey, I'm in the Pacific, things like that, 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.840 and uh, and keep something and also keep false logs, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.480 and then just hang out there and monitor everybody else's 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.560