Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing Cookbook_Gift_Guide and feel at home

and feel at home

And in the city of Tevanne

both face the fact their shared past might just be the beginning of a future

their former comrades

When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008

Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing Cookbook_Gift_Guide and feel at homeIn August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600 mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest coast of England to Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast and back. 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,