"Fastnet, Force 10"
By: John Rousmaniere.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; Norton
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Heavy Weather Sailing
Genres: Sailing
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.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [279]-280.
Includes foreword, index, appendixes (3), maps and photographs.
Table of contents: title: The Search For The Grimalkin; title: Grimalkin: An Orderly Boat, a Disorderly Storm; title: Toscana: To the Westerly Approaches; title: Toscana: Battle Scene; title: Trophy: Slipping Away; title: The Seas: The Most Fearsome Things; title: The Rescuers: Asking the Impossible; title: Ariadne: The Unluckiest Boat in the World; title: The Finishers: Retreat and Refuge; title: Lessons Learned and Unlearned