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📘 "Fastnet, force 10" by John Rousmaniere

This is a sea story, and it is true. It is the story of how fifteen people died, not in wartime, or on a hunt for whales, or in a typhoon in the South China Sea, but during a yacht race only seventy miles off the coast of England.

First publish date: 1980

Authors: John Rousmaniere

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