A Race Too Far Audiobook (Free)

In 1968, the Weekend Situations organised the Golden Globe race – an unbelievable test of endurance never before attempted – a across the world yacht race that must be finished single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification.

This remarkable challenge inspired the daring to enter – with or without sailing experience. A Competition Too Far may be the story of the way the competition unfolded, and exactly how it became a tragedy for most involved.

From the nine sailors who started the about A Race TOO MUCH race, four realised the madness from the undertaking and pulled out within weeks. The remaining five each possess their own exceptional tale. Chay Blyth, refreshing from rowing the Atlantic with John Ridgway, acquired no sailing experience but were able to sail across the Cape of Good Wish before retiring. Nigel Tetley sank whilst in the business lead with 1,100 nautical kilometers to go, making it through but dying in tragic circumstances two years afterwards. Donald Crowhurst started showing signs of mental disease and tried to false a round the globe voyage. His sail boat was uncovered adrift within an obvious suicide, but his body was under no circumstances discovered. Bernard Moitessier forgotten the race whilst in a solid position and carried on to Tahiti, where he resolved and fathered a kid by an area woman despite having a wife and family in Paris. Robin Knox-Johnston was the only person to total the race.

It has undoubtedly become the most legendary of modern stories of men pitting themselves against the sea. Forty years on, Chris Eakin recreates the dilemma of the epic race, talking to all those touched with the tragedies surrounding the Golden World: the survivors, the widows and the children of those who died. It really is a book that both evokes the primary wonder of the experience itself and shows on what it offers come to suggest to both those involved and the rest of us in the forty years since.