"Fastnet, force 10"

This is a sea story, and it is true. It is the story of how fifteen people died, not in wartime, or on a hunt for whales, or in a typhoon in the South China Sea, but during a yacht race only seventy miles off the coast of England.

First sentence: When the gale swept over Ireland during Monday night, it seemed like any other summer storm that catches a few boats out in the Western Approaches to England.

Year

1980

Language

English

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Editions

1

Pages

304

ISBN

9780393340327

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