30 Years On The Race is Finally Over
by Nick Ward
appears in Sailing and Nonfiction.
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the 600mile course of the UK?s Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within 48 hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea. By the time it had passed, it had thrown one of the world?s most prestigious races into bedlam and taken the lives of fifteen sailors. Ward?s b...
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