Donald Crowhurst.

[OceanSpec]

To compound the whole tragedy of the event if I recall correctly Nigel Tetley lost everthing when his boat and home broke up as a result of Crowhursts deception. The result being that Tetley took his own life by hanging himself in Exmore.

 

[jhr]

Nigel Tetley

Yes, he committed suicide. He'd built another tri, with the insurance proceeds from his previous boat. His widow, Eve, lived on the boat for some time afterwards, moored near my old man's boat in the mudberths at Mercury. I used to chat to her from time to time but "why did your husband kill himself"? never seemed like an appropriate question to ask, so I don't know if he was depressed about the outcome of the race, or whether there were other factors at work.

Can't have been anything to do with Eve; she was lovely.