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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...

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...

took part in the Fastnet Race of 1979, and became the subject of the book "Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster". Although...

yachts competed in The America's Cup, The Fastnet Race, the Olympics, the Ocean Race (Whitbread Round the World Race) and many other yacht races. It also built...

between Wales and Ireland Fastnet (netball), a variation of the rules of netball used primarily in the World Netball Series Fastnet Race, one of the four or...

Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54-metre-tall (177 ft) lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of...

Bought by Evelyn George Martin in 1923 she was refitted and won the first Fastnet Race from seven starters in August 1925. In 1927 Martin sold Jolie Brise,...

Simon Le Bon who was rescued from the vessel while competing in 1985 Fastnet Race. Drum was designed by Ireland-based boat designer Ron Holland and built...

one of only two yachts from the fifteen starters to complete the 1927 Fastnet Race. The yacht crossed the finish under heavy conditions, 52 minutes after...

Herrmann to sail in the Fastnet Race. Starting at Cowes, moving up to Ireland and then back down to Devonshire, they finished the race in third place. Casiraghi...

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 together...

Bon made public his desire to race again. During a touring break in August 2005, Le Bon again raced Drum in the Fastnet Race, borrowing the vessel from her...

regular appearances at most of the great races such as the Fastnet, Sydney-Hobart, Bermuda Race, and their own private series of regattas in the Mediterranean...

French and Adrian Kuttel finished 3rd in the 2015 edition of the Rolex Fastnet race. The team crossed the finish line in Plymouth on 20 August 2015 at 00:27:10...

days, 3 hours and 49 minutes, 8 July 2010. Skippered by Loick Peyron Fastnet Race, in 1 day, 8 hours and 48 minutes, 15 August 2011, averaging 18.5 knots...

UFO 34s performed effectively in both races, winning class IV in the Fastnet race and retiring without incident in the Sydney to Hobart. Unidentified Flying...

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 ceased...

and 2014 Bol d'Or Mirabaud and, with her team Spindrift Racing, the Fastnet Race in 2013. In the same year, she and her team also broke the record for...

yachts named Skorpis race competitively winning the ClubSwan 50 World Championship and taking line honour in the 2021 Fastnet Race sailing his ClubSwan...

archaeology and anthropology. While in university, she competed in the Fastnet Race, a yacht race organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Lady Charlotte works...