Timeshift — Season 1, Episode 4: The Sailing Sixties

Episode synopsis

In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revolution that was kick-started by waterproof glues developed for bomber aircraft led to a whole generation of DIY dinghy builders, and ended in tragedy with the suicide of amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst.

About Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Grunwick Strike
• E2The Cannabis Years
• E3The Writer's Trade
• E5Attenborough: The Controller Years
• E6he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
• E7A Shadow Over Europe
• E8Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
• E9Notting Hill Riots
• E10What Have the Germans Done for Us?
• E11Greenham Common Changed My Life
• E12Car Crazy
• E13The Magic Roundabout Story