“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 ...

The 1979 Fastnet Race turned into a deadly disaster when a fierce storm claimed 19 lives. Join us as we explore the harrowing events of that fateful race and the devastating impact of the storm on ...

Frances Reincke (pictured recently) was just 21 when she competed in the 1979 Fastnet Race A woman has described how her father read in a newspaper she was presumed drowned following a sailing ...

A woman has described how her father read in a newspaper she was presumed drowned following a sailing disaster. Frances Reincke was 21 when she competed in the 1979 Fastnet Race, which at the time ...