In March 1968 The Sunday Times announces the Golden Globe Race for the first non-stop solo circumnavigation of the world. Electronics engineer and amateur sailor Don Crowhurst enters along with sailors, Chay Blyth, Nigel Tetley, Bernard Moitessier, John Ridgeway, William King, Alex Carozza, Loïck Fougeron, Bill Howell and merchant navy officer, Robin Knox-Johnston. Failing to buy Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV, Crowhurst builds a trimaran, the Teignmouth Electron.