Fastnet Yacht Race Disaster
How and why did it cause such a catastrophic disaster. There was nothing in the forecast at the start of the 1979 fastnet race to indicate a storm but a storm came with devastating effect. Book Review Left For Dead Just Retiring Over 300 yachts competing in a prestigious british yacht race dont know they are sailing headlong into a force 10 atlantic gale. Fastnet yacht race disaster . A worse than expected storm on the third day of the. The fastnet disaster. Only two out of a total of five aboard the american yacht ariadne survived the race. Forty years on from britains fastnet race disaster that left 19 yachtsmen dead amid 60ft waves the survivors relive every shattering moment. After being rolled pitchpoled battered and half drowned and believing the rest of the crew to be. This day in 1979 saw the worst disaster in the 100 year history of ocean yacht racing as a freak storm hit the fastnet race leaving 15 crew members dead...