“There was a long oily swell and very little wind,” Harold Cudmore recalled more than 40 years later. “We realized there was bad weather coming. So, we had the ...

303 yachts left the shore—but not all returned. In August 1979, the Fastnet race became a fight for survival as a brutal storm tore across the sea, killing 19 sailors and changing offshore racing ...

When Ted Turner entered his yacht Tenacious in the famed Fastnet Race in 1979, he did not need to prove himself. Turner already had the following on his résumé: founder of a television network, owner ...