11-10-2017, 01:28 PM
This smells like a modern version of the Brit sailor Donald Crowhurst story..... Crowhurst had entered the race in hopes of winning a cash prize from The Sunday Times to aid his failing business. Instead, he encountered difficulty early in the voyage, and secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, in an attempt to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually circling the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst