550°N 6.971°W / 50.550; -6.971 The 1979 Fastnet Race was the 28th Royal Ocean Racing Club's Fastnet Race, a yachting race held generally every two years since...

The Fastnet Race is a biennial offshore yacht race organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) of the United Kingdom with the assistance of the Royal...

noted for its performance during the legendary, and tragic, 1979 Fastnet race. The 1979 Fastnet was besieged by a series of storms, resulting in 15 fatalities...

index of 115 required for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Six UFO 34s competed in the 1979 Fastnet race, which experienced winds averaging 50 to 55 knots...

was the only yacht in the small boat class to finish the disastrous 1979 Fastnet race, in which 15 people died. Production by the Jeremy Rogers boatyard...

"Fastnet Race 1979: Life and death decision – Matthew Sheahan's story". Yachting World. Retrieved 10 November 2024. Compton, Nic (18 May 2022). "1979 Fastnet...

Earthquake" – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake "Fastnet Yacht Race" – 1979 Fastnet race "Iran Hostage Rescue" – 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis "The Sinking of...

yachts registered to begin the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht race were: 1979 Fastnet race, a yacht race severely affected by a rapidly deepening extratropical...

ballast. The formula came into being after the 1979 Fastnet race in England where a storm shredded the race fleet. The Cruising Club of America (CCA) put...

Fame in 1993, and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011. In the 1979 Fastnet Race, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered the S&S-designed...

careers. For example, Deirdre was one of the vessels involved in the 1979 Fastnet race rescue operations, assisting the crews of two yachts. In 1990, during...

knots for 6 hours with virtually no damage. During the ill-fated 1979 Fastnet race, of 300 yachts, 158 chose to adopt storm tactics; 86 "lay ahull",...

"Clipper Race fatality: Great Britain crewmember washed overboard". Retrieved 18 November 2017. "An Update on John Fisher". Volvo Ocean Race. Retrieved...

in 2002. Williams crewed for Ted Turner aboard Tenacious for the 1979 Fastnet race, which was the event of the largest yacht racing disaster in modern...

weather and wind, and some luck. The Fastnet race, and particularly the 1979 Fastnet race (the disastrous race that changed yacht racing for all time)...

McKinsey and Co. Banham was an avid sailor, participating in the 1979 Fastnet race, on a Contessa 34 when the yacht was hit by Force 11 winds some 90...

contemporary of Condor of Bermuda and a participant in the tragic 1979 Fastnet race. Kialoa V was a Germán Frers designed maxi; and fierce competitor...

during the large rescue operation required after storms struck the 1979 Fastnet race. Broadsword took part in the 1982 Falklands War. On 25 May 1982, she...

Noekk SV Grimalkin, a yacht that competed but failed to finish in the 1979 Fastnet race Grimalkin, a witch assassin in the Spook's series by Joseph Delaney...

incidents. In August 1979, several Nimrods were involved in locating yachting competitors during the disaster-stricken 1979 Fastnet race and coordinated with...

- was believed to impact safety, and was cited as a factor in the 1979 Fastnet race disaster. In theory, the IRC avoids these problems. IRC can apply...

in the rescue of racing yachts caught in a severe storm during the 1979 Fastnet Race. Holland was decommissioned on 30 September 1996 and moored with the...

1971 – while prime minister – and also captained the team in the 1979 Fastnet race. He was a member of the Broadstairs Sailing Club, where he learnt to...

Weathers Left for Dead, a 2007 book by sailor Nick Ward about the 1979 Fastnet race "Left for Dead", a 2004 episode of the American television drama series...

replaced by the twin turbine-powered Wessex HU.5 in 1979, when it was involved with the 1979 Fastnet race rescues. During the Falklands Conflict all of 771...

racing yacht owned and skippered by Ted Turner and winner of the 1979 Fastnet Race Tenacious (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse Tenacious Records...

Dorey was lost at sea in a sailing accident whilst competing in the 1979 Fastnet Race, with his interest passing to his wife; Tattie. Four years later,...

surge of the 20th century recorded on the German North Sea coast. 1979 Fastnet Race – Force 10 to 11 storm forced the retirement or, in several cases...

in the disastrous 1979 Fastnet race, finishing third across the line. In the Parmelia Yacht Race from Plymouth to Fremantle in 1979, he finished second...

The list of shipwrecks in 1979 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1979. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (P) "Vietnamese...