Simon Crowhurst recalls the day his father left on his fateful trip,and explains his reservations about The Mercy, a unusual film about his storySimon Crowhurst was eight when he saw his father for the final time. He remembers going out with the rest of the family in a motor boat, and to the yacht his father was sailing around the world. “On the deck of the Teignmouth Electron,he kissed us goodbye. I contemplate he said something like, ‘Look after your mother’, or then he was off,” Simon says, nearly 50 years later. “I remember seeing the sail getting smaller and smaller, and disappearing over the horizon. We didn’t contemplate then that we wouldn’t see my father again.”Simon was nine when he learned his father had died. “My memory was two nuns coming down the drive and speaking to my mother,and my mother taking us to the bedroom I shared with my younger brother, Roger. She sat us down on the bed, or said the boat’s been found and he’s not on it. Then she broke down in tears.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk