Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing - Softcover

Rousmaniere, John

 
9780393308655: Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393308650 ISBN 13: 9780393308655
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a speed that confounded forecasters, slamming into the fleet with epic fury. For twenty hours, 2,500 men and women were smashed by forty-foot breaking waves, while rescue helicopters and lifeboats struggled to save them. By the time the race was over, fifteen people had died, twenty-four crews had abandoned ship, five yachts had sunk, 136 sailors had been rescued, and only 85 boats had finished the race. John Rousmaniere was there, and he tells the tragic story of the greatest disaster in the history of yachting as only one who has sailed through the teeth of a killer storm can. With a new introduction by the author.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Rousmaniere has sailed in over 35,000 miles of offshore voyaging and racing. He crewed on the 48-foot Toscana in the fateful Fastnet Race of 1979.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393308650
ISBN 13 
9780393308655
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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