A Voyage For Madmen (41 page)

Sunday Times

Daily Mirror

Sunday Mirror

The Kent Messenger

J. R. L. Anderson,
The Ulysses Factor

Chay and Maureen Blyth,
Innocent Aboard

Charles A. Borden,
Sea Quest

Francis Chichester, Gypsy Moth IV
Circles the World

Adlard Coles, Peter Bruce,
Heavy Weather Sailing, 4th Edition

Tacita Dean,
Teignmouth Electron

Richard Henderson,
Singlehanded Sailing, 2nd Edition

Eric Hiscock,
Voyaging Under Sail
, etc.

Hydrographic Office of the British Navy,
Ocean Passages for the World

Bill King,
Capsize

Robin Knox-Johnston,
A World of My Own

Bernard Moitessier,
The Long Way; Tamata and the Alliance; Cape Horn, the Logical Route

Jonathan Raban,
The Oxford Book of the Sea

John Ridgway,
The Road to Ardmore

Nigel Tetley,
Trimaran Solo

Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall,
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works:

From
A World of My Own
by Robin Knox-Johnston, copyright © 1969 by Robin Knox-Johnston. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of Robin Knox-Johnston.

Bernard Moitessier, translated by William Rodarmor,
Tamata and the Alliance
, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House Inc., 1995.

Bernard Moitessier, translated by William Rodarmor,
The Long Way
, Dobb's Ferry, NY: Sheridan House Inc., 1995.

Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall,
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
, copyright © 1995 by the authors. Reproduced by permission of Hodder and Stoughton Limited and The McGraw Hill Companies.

All photographs copyrighted by the News International and the
Sunday Times
, except for the photograph
Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac, 1999
, copyright © 1999 by Tacita Dean,
for which the author thanks Tacita Dean, the Frith Street Gallery, London, and the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; and photograph of
Suhaili
, taken by Peter Nichols.

All maps by Samuel F. Manning, copyright © 2001.

Moitessier's
Joshua
. Made of boilerplate, like her skipper.

John Ridgway. He had no love of the sea. The voyage was simply an ordeal to endure.

On departure day, Chay Blyth did not yet know how to sail.

Ridgway aboard
English Rose IV
moments before collision.

The forging of a strong bond. From
left to right
: Tetley, King, Moitessier, Fougeron aboard King's
Galway Blazer II
at Plymouth. Rivalry was put aside and the sailors became close friends.

Robin Knox-Johnston. A psychiatrist who saw him before he sailed found him ‘distressingly normal'.

Knox-Johnston's
Suhaili
leaving London, low in the water with a year's supply of corned beef.

Knox-Johnston on
Suhaili
's bowsprit. He didn't like to wear a saftey harness.

Bernard Moitessier. He went to sea to save his soul, but found himself in a race.

Moitessier demonstrates his chosen form of communication at sea.