The Mercy Page #3

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Well, how would you suggest I do that?

(Woman) 'No, not from dreaming.

Dreaming's one thing.'

But leaving in a boat on some sunny day

is quite another.

Well, I have complete faith

that he will wake up from this dream

before that sunny day actually arrives.

- 'He usually does.'

- 'You think he'll change his mind?'

Well, that's what I admire about Don.

He has a mind that's

capable of change.

You want to build a boat?

This boat, it'll be a trimaran.

A three-hulled vessel

based on the Piver design.

It'll feature a treasure trove

of technical innovations,

all pioneered by Electron Utilisation,

incorporating the Navicator

and a dozen other major innovations.

It'll feature an inflatable buoyancy

device at the top of the mast.

So, if she gets into trouble,

the CO2 cartridge is triggered

by the capsizing event,

shoots up the mast,

and inflates the buoyancy bag at the top.

So if she goes over,

she'll just pop back up again.

Without question,

it'll be the fastest boat in the race.

We enter it in the Golden Globe.

The biggest sailing race ever

becomes our advertising campaign.

"We" enter it?

I didn't come here

asking for charity, Mr Best.

I'm offering something new.

- Who pilots the boat?

- I do.

You? Have you ever done anything

like that before?

No, but that's the point.

That's the business proposition.

If I can do it, then so can the bloke

who stares at the horizon in wonder.

If I'm putting in the money...

...what are you putting in?

Everything else.

(Hallworth) So you're not really a sailor?

(Crowhurst) Seems to me

the act of sailing makes one a sailor.

How about you, Mr Hallworth?

How did you come to be a press agent?

Oh, I was a reporter for a time.

A crime reporter.

So your experience as a press agent

appears to rival that of mine as a sailor?

Touch, Mr Crowhurst.

But, you see, publicity can be done

from the safety of a desk chair

whereas your competitors have a great deal

more experience at the helm of a boat.

Nobody has experience of sailing round

the globe single-handed without stopping.

And the proof of that is the simple fact

it has not been done before.

(Chuckles) It's a good point, that.

Yes, but then there's, you see,

for example, there's this Frenchman.

- Moitessier.

- Moitessier.

Now he sailed from Tahiti to Cape Horn,

through the Southern Ocean.

Two of these other bastards rowed

a bloody boat across the Atlantic.

Another commanded a submarine

in the war.

Moitessier, Knox-Johnston, Tetley and

the others, they're accomplished sailors.

- But when I win the Golden Globe...

- You can't think you're going to win?

Making it out to sea

is a feat for you, isn't it?

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