Word: teignmouth
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...last drizzly day of October 1968, 36-year-old Donald Crowhurst set sail out of Teignmouth, England, the tail-end starter in a single-handed nonstop sailboat race around the world. Eight months later, newspapers reported Crowhurst on the last leg of his voyage making excellent speed and sure to finish with the fastest time. Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic...
Crowhurst had embarked on a passage that he was largely unequipped to complete-morally or materially. When, three weeks out of Teignmouth, he realized that his leaky boat would never weather the full voyage around Cape Horn, he had too much of himself and his fortune invested in the project to return, and was gradually forced into fraud. He sailed slowly through the deserted South Atlantic, doctoring his log and dispatching radio messages of his progress round the world...
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