Mi sono commosso in vedere la barca di Crowhurst lasciata all'abbandono. Se solo avesi una minima possibilità di prenderla farei il possibile per ristorarla. Basta pensare a quanto avrebbe da "raccontare" questa figura inanimata!
for all those who are quick with their diagnosis of Crowhurst tend to overlook one important aspect...empathy. let's see how you hold up if you manage to be manipulated into a situation beyond your control...in my eyes Crowhurst had an extraordinary courage...being human.
What's all this about Don Crowhurst being a hero then?? He was clearly a deranged man who tried to cheat and was driven mad by the ocean. Good story but by no means a hero at all. Far from it in fact.
I can't help thinking this is kind of butterfly effect applied to human mind, or rather occuring in human mind : first the decision to enter a sailing race being an inexperienced sailor leading to decisions each time more dreadful because of events he couldn't foreseen (Moitessier decision to keep sailing and Tetley's sinking)... All that because he wanted to to something big with his life. Well, he did eventually (big hoax indeed)... but not what he had planed !
I love sailing and the sea more than anything. I'm a reserve Naval officer and an experienced yacht and dinghy sailor, I've endured my share of bad weather at sea but I would never ever have what it takes to circumnavigate the globe single handed and non stop. Even today, with all the satellite systems, GPS etc. Nothing could ever persuade me to do it.
No matter what he did, hands up to Donald Crowhurst for trying. RIP.
There is no reason for harmful.. judgements... (and I won't judge him)...
One thing I don't understand, and that puzzles me, is why he didn't also sink his boat one night, and get in the liferaft. He could have ditched all the evidence right there and then, and never completed the race.
I believe he simply grew tired of having to keep covering up. His integrity is what killed him ultimately. He should have come back to his family, no matter what, that is the tragic part for me.
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again.. It is also the story of Friendship. His best friend never let him down..
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again.. It is also the story of Friendship..
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again..
Great documentary- very well done. This is a true homage to the human spirit in all its complexities. I don't think it is about heroism and all that, it is simply that we face this great universe alone and some of us, like our friend here, paint ourselves into a corner and cannot escape.
How can you be sure that Donald Crowhurst DIDN'T meet something, out there in the far wastes of the ocean? Something too big for the human mind to comprehend - perhaps that's what REALLY broke him.........
What is a shame, is that this rather well done film was made, not of the great achievements of the rest of the sailors but instead focuses such great creativity and heaps such praise on the one person, who -after all- did not run a good race. The inner working of the human mind is interesting, but personally, I would far more have prefered to have seen this work about ANY of the other participants, who tried but were pummeled and worn to a dignified submission at the overpowering hand of nature.
Perhaps He Really Tried His Best...And Although All Did Not Turn Out As Expected He Did At Least Try...there Is Still hope And Kindness In This Story...
Very moving documentary. In particular the moment when Moitessier chooses to go round again and the fact that Knox-Johnston donates his money to Donald's family. A fascinating look at the amazing strength and frailty of man and the fact that these can co-exist. No matter what anyone says I think his family can be very proud of him.
@OriginalMindTrick Maybe the world was harsher back then, but was also a society with a clearer sense of right and wrong. Crowhurst's adherence to this code was obviously was a factor in his breakdown. You can imagine how events would pan out nowadays:
Crowhurst sails to port and gets the money. Then he is rumbled. Cue an interview with Martin Bashir in which he blubs like a baby that he never got over his father's death and only did it because he loved his family boo hoo hoo
@TomthatiscalledTom After a while, he sells his story to a Murdoch tabloid and although he has to give the prize money back, he gets to keep his house with the proceeds. Within a year, Crowhurst is making good money as the compere of a reality show set on a tirmaran (I'm a Land Lubber: get me to Port!) where Christopher Biggins, Bill Odie, Lisa Stansfield and Tracey from Coronation Street have to learn to sail. That's the difference between that era and now: integrity wasn't a joke
he might have watched it but he certainly didnt understand anything or listen; simple minds come to simple conclusions ... writing in all caps with the name mtothamuthafuckink, what can you expect? just another pleb
Good Docco. Hard to compare it to the book of course. Our minds imagine more when reading! The book was called "the strange last voyage of donald crowhurst"
Why hasn't anyone brought Crowhurst's boat home? It should be here in Britian taking pride of place at The National Maritime Museum. What he did was a very British thing in my mind.
Iv just finished watching this marvelous film. Im going to bed now to dream of the Ocean and its great waves and my wife and my dauhter whom are so far away.
Thank you for posting this. It has to be one of the best things I have ever seen uploaded. What a good documentary. One of the most moving human stories I have heard.
He leído varios libros sobre esta regata y hazaña, y sin duda para mi Moitissier era el mejor....lo siento muchísimo por la familia de Donald Crowhurst, es una tragedia...Y ver su barco al final, abandonado en una isla perdida me llena de tristeza. Que bonita aventura.
Incredible that dark horse/rank outsider, the mystery man who was barely able to even launch on the last day and had troubles the first few hours on the water, who faced sinking and death within the first few weeks at sea due to leaking hatches, who potted around the Atlantic idly while others boldly circumnavigated the globe, would eventually become the fastest of all just days from ultimate victory, but for it all being a fraud. It's better than Shakespeare.
Sometimes, when the cosmos comes calling, comets reach out to grasp one's hand in unexpected ways. Who can stand that great and truthful explosion? Who cannot go blind with the illumination of it? Who can resume life unchanged or at all when damaged in such a marvelous way?
It just seemed like that was the situation.You're at a crossroads, and the sheer immensity of coming to understand what REALLY exists at the center of being relegates all else to nothingness.The Frenchman rode the wave, but returned ever changed...
Crowhurst crawled in it's mouth and disappeared. When some men come to understand why God neither punishes or saves, they become dissolute or mad. Others
wait patiently to join the infinite engine that powers all.
Donald Crowhurst is my hero. I weep copiously no matter how many times I watcht his. Please buy the whole DVD. Thanks for uploading, but really, please buy it. This was a small production with no money in it. He saw the truth that we are horribly alone and there is nowhere we can go.
I wonder what would have happened If all his gear he ordered had arrived on time before he was forced to leave with out all his equipment he had planned to make it work....
Gutted for the sad end!
All these sailors are heroes.
Mtoantony 1 week ago
Mi sono commosso in vedere la barca di Crowhurst lasciata all'abbandono. Se solo avesi una minima possibilità di prenderla farei il possibile per ristorarla. Basta pensare a quanto avrebbe da "raccontare" questa figura inanimata!
ferdiolivei 3 weeks ago
for all those who are quick with their diagnosis of Crowhurst tend to overlook one important aspect...empathy. let's see how you hold up if you manage to be manipulated into a situation beyond your control...in my eyes Crowhurst had an extraordinary courage...being human.
alexxenophon 2 months ago
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I feel bad for Crowhurst's wife.. she must have some blood on her hands too for not stopping him. She must feel responsible. Such a sad story
paisleyjames2009 3 months ago
I feel bad for Crowhurst's wife.. she must have some blood on her hands too for not stopping him. She must feel responsible. Such a sad story
paisleyjames2009 3 months ago
What's all this about Don Crowhurst being a hero then?? He was clearly a deranged man who tried to cheat and was driven mad by the ocean. Good story but by no means a hero at all. Far from it in fact.
TheLastFraudster 5 months ago
@TheLastFraudster A cheat and possibly deranged, but I think the term 'tragic hero' was meant for people like him.
dezboss 5 months ago
I can't help thinking this is kind of butterfly effect applied to human mind, or rather occuring in human mind : first the decision to enter a sailing race being an inexperienced sailor leading to decisions each time more dreadful because of events he couldn't foreseen (Moitessier decision to keep sailing and Tetley's sinking)... All that because he wanted to to something big with his life. Well, he did eventually (big hoax indeed)... but not what he had planed !
19Edurne 5 months ago
I love sailing and the sea more than anything. I'm a reserve Naval officer and an experienced yacht and dinghy sailor, I've endured my share of bad weather at sea but I would never ever have what it takes to circumnavigate the globe single handed and non stop. Even today, with all the satellite systems, GPS etc. Nothing could ever persuade me to do it.
No matter what he did, hands up to Donald Crowhurst for trying. RIP.
dezboss 6 months ago
If you've been moved by this beautiful but sad documentary you must read "The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst".
dawaone 7 months ago
The stress and fear of being at sea alone is unimaginable, unless you have done it.
PC3900 7 months ago
This is extremely sad... and I already knew the ending. I don't look down upon him at all he has more balls than 99.9% of us.
Bouchon211 7 months ago
a big sad storie... minute of silence to donald
cortezamental 8 months ago
There is no reason for harmful.
skeena42 9 months ago
There is no reason for harmful.. judgements... (and I won't judge him)...
One thing I don't understand, and that puzzles me, is why he didn't also sink his boat one night, and get in the liferaft. He could have ditched all the evidence right there and then, and never completed the race.
I believe he simply grew tired of having to keep covering up. His integrity is what killed him ultimately. He should have come back to his family, no matter what, that is the tragic part for me.
shades2 9 months ago
..there is no reason for harmful....Rodney Hallworth SOLD the log book. Apalling treason.. Kerr was indeed party to this disaster.
caroleastrid 9 months ago
..there is no reason for harmful....Rodney Hallworth SOLD the log book. Apalling treason.
caroleastrid 9 months ago
..there is no reason for harmful....
caroleastrid 9 months ago
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again.. It is also the story of Friendship. His best friend never let him down..
caroleastrid 10 months ago
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again.. It is also the story of Friendship..
caroleastrid 10 months ago
This film is worth seeing and REMEMBERING: it is the Humans game.... With his adventure, Donald Crowhust taught us all the illusions that keep us playing the game... the game. Thank youtube for allowing us to see this film again and again..
caroleastrid 10 months ago
Stunning film.
Norm1011616 10 months ago
Brilliant documentary. Has meaning for all of us.
croydonrudeness 10 months ago
crowhurst felt so much pressure... i salute him for the courage he had, but his story was bloody sad,...
kino261988 11 months ago
so his body was never found?
He obviously went on to the next realm after finding the truth and hes now a cosmic being.
DeadEndFrog 11 months ago
Great documentary- very well done. This is a true homage to the human spirit in all its complexities. I don't think it is about heroism and all that, it is simply that we face this great universe alone and some of us, like our friend here, paint ourselves into a corner and cannot escape.
WalkAboutPro 11 months ago
What the name of the spng on at the end credits????
edman1988 1 year ago
nice film . i wont forget crowhurst
blagit23 1 year ago
isolation can bring realization.
tonypar9 1 year ago
His perception of God was way off...
ShannonCole888 1 year ago
@ShannonCole888 How do you KNOW?
How can you be sure that Donald Crowhurst DIDN'T meet something, out there in the far wastes of the ocean? Something too big for the human mind to comprehend - perhaps that's what REALLY broke him.........
gaspode18 9 months ago
better to have tried and failed than to have never given it a go
alexander211974 1 year ago
What is a shame, is that this rather well done film was made, not of the great achievements of the rest of the sailors but instead focuses such great creativity and heaps such praise on the one person, who -after all- did not run a good race. The inner working of the human mind is interesting, but personally, I would far more have prefered to have seen this work about ANY of the other participants, who tried but were pummeled and worn to a dignified submission at the overpowering hand of nature.
svprovidence 1 year ago 3
Perhaps He Really Tried His Best...And Although All Did Not Turn Out As Expected He Did At Least Try...there Is Still hope And Kindness In This Story...
LoveMe24HoursADay 1 year ago
Very moving documentary. In particular the moment when Moitessier chooses to go round again and the fact that Knox-Johnston donates his money to Donald's family. A fascinating look at the amazing strength and frailty of man and the fact that these can co-exist. No matter what anyone says I think his family can be very proud of him.
rainmanhk 1 year ago 4
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HE IS NOT A HERO, HE LIED THEN KILLED HIMSELF WITH A WIFE AND CHILDREN AT HOME. HOW SELFISH WAS THAT. TRUTH.
MtothamuthafuckinK 1 year ago
@MtothamuthafuckinK
The reality is obviosly more complex then what you claim it to be.
OriginalMindTrick 1 year ago 14
@OriginalMindTrick Maybe the world was harsher back then, but was also a society with a clearer sense of right and wrong. Crowhurst's adherence to this code was obviously was a factor in his breakdown. You can imagine how events would pan out nowadays:
Crowhurst sails to port and gets the money. Then he is rumbled. Cue an interview with Martin Bashir in which he blubs like a baby that he never got over his father's death and only did it because he loved his family boo hoo hoo
TomthatiscalledTom 1 year ago 3
@TomthatiscalledTom After a while, he sells his story to a Murdoch tabloid and although he has to give the prize money back, he gets to keep his house with the proceeds. Within a year, Crowhurst is making good money as the compere of a reality show set on a tirmaran (I'm a Land Lubber: get me to Port!) where Christopher Biggins, Bill Odie, Lisa Stansfield and Tracey from Coronation Street have to learn to sail. That's the difference between that era and now: integrity wasn't a joke
TomthatiscalledTom 1 year ago 2
@MtothamuthafuckinK
Did you even watch the documentary?
supereliptic 1 year ago
@supereliptic
he might have watched it but he certainly didnt understand anything or listen; simple minds come to simple conclusions ... writing in all caps with the name mtothamuthafuckink, what can you expect? just another pleb
GauntV 1 year ago
@MtothamuthafuckinK He was self-destructive. Not selfish.
richardcadbury 7 months ago
crowhurst's wife was really pretty.
onespeed1664 1 year ago
Good Docco. Hard to compare it to the book of course. Our minds imagine more when reading! The book was called "the strange last voyage of donald crowhurst"
ozskipper 1 year ago
Why hasn't anyone brought Crowhurst's boat home? It should be here in Britian taking pride of place at The National Maritime Museum. What he did was a very British thing in my mind.
Excellent documentary !
Freakster1970 1 year ago 2
Read Jonathan Coe's new book - The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim. It is hugely linked to Donald Crowhurst. Also a fantastic read.
bumjester75 1 year ago
RIP Donald Crowhurst x
spookyboo22 1 year ago
Iv just finished watching this marvelous film. Im going to bed now to dream of the Ocean and its great waves and my wife and my dauhter whom are so far away.
ludzikmarudzik 1 year ago
I wonder if the Cosmic being had any words for Nigel Tetley (who died, in tragically strange circumstances, just a couple of years later).
krakenwave 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this. It has to be one of the best things I have ever seen uploaded. What a good documentary. One of the most moving human stories I have heard.
marshhen 1 year ago
It is the mercy!
nw8000 1 year ago
He leído varios libros sobre esta regata y hazaña, y sin duda para mi Moitissier era el mejor....lo siento muchísimo por la familia de Donald Crowhurst, es una tragedia...Y ver su barco al final, abandonado en una isla perdida me llena de tristeza. Que bonita aventura.
Gracias
peiko26 2 years ago
Oooohhhhh I like that!! Wow... You have anymore?? ..
macmuhnpro 2 years ago
So many HEROs!!!! Only 600 and some views for such an amazing true story..
Yet Kanye West gets all the attention.. WAY TO GO MY FELLOW VIEWERS - I'm sure it changed many of your lives too!!
macmuhnpro 2 years ago 4
Incredible that dark horse/rank outsider, the mystery man who was barely able to even launch on the last day and had troubles the first few hours on the water, who faced sinking and death within the first few weeks at sea due to leaking hatches, who potted around the Atlantic idly while others boldly circumnavigated the globe, would eventually become the fastest of all just days from ultimate victory, but for it all being a fraud. It's better than Shakespeare.
avidalocan 2 years ago 4
Sometimes, when the cosmos comes calling, comets reach out to grasp one's hand in unexpected ways. Who can stand that great and truthful explosion? Who cannot go blind with the illumination of it? Who can resume life unchanged or at all when damaged in such a marvelous way?
1EAGardener 2 years ago 15
@1EAGardener Wow .. are you a writter?! Shakespeare would be proud...
@ avidalocan
macmuhnpro 2 years ago
It just seemed like that was the situation.You're at a crossroads, and the sheer immensity of coming to understand what REALLY exists at the center of being relegates all else to nothingness.The Frenchman rode the wave, but returned ever changed...
Crowhurst crawled in it's mouth and disappeared. When some men come to understand why God neither punishes or saves, they become dissolute or mad. Others
wait patiently to join the infinite engine that powers all.
1EAGardener 2 years ago
Donald Crowhurst is my hero. I weep copiously no matter how many times I watcht his. Please buy the whole DVD. Thanks for uploading, but really, please buy it. This was a small production with no money in it. He saw the truth that we are horribly alone and there is nowhere we can go.
cancerparty 2 years ago 14
I totaly agree 100%..
Support the great production of small but great movies by buying the dvd..
I wish there where some better way though, couse when all the expencies of a dvd is done there is not much left for the creators to go with..
OriginalMindTrick 2 years ago 4
@cancerparty I second that!! Thanks for the comment.. I had the same words..
macmuhnpro 2 years ago
because of his diary....for me it opened a whole new perspective about how deep a mind of a person really is....
3205365 2 years ago 2
I wonder what would have happened If all his gear he ordered had arrived on time before he was forced to leave with out all his equipment he had planned to make it work....
Teflonmonkeyjumps 2 years ago
I caught the end of this doco on foxtel and i got a little freaked out by his diary bullshit.
KillaPython 2 years ago
yeah im watching it for the first time on youtube and u should hear what else he does!
IsBreaLiomCapall 2 years ago