Sunday Times Golden Globe race of 1969 is an iconic sailing event and some of the most striking images from the archive relating to this race are the grainy photos of Donald Crowhurst and Nigel Tetley setting out in their trimarans - and respectively. One look at either of these somewhat tenuous craft and you can't help but think, well, dear God. Crowhurst may have been eccentric but he was sane enough to realise that his command was wholly incapable of dealing with the Southern Ocean. What he did next in faking his own voyage while slowly unravelling mentally was unfortunate to say the least. The forgotten tragedy behind this tragedy is that Nigel Tetley, having braved the Southern Ocean, pushed too hard in the north Atlantic - largely because he thought Crowhurst was on his tail - with the result that his plywood trimaran broke up 1,200nm short of the finish.
