Fastnet: One Man's Voyage

by Roger Vaughan

Forty years ago - August, 1979, a rogue storm savaged the Fastnet Race fleet, wrecking boats and claiming the lives of 15 sailors. "Fingers" (Roger Vaughan) was on board the maxi Kialoa, owned by the late Jim Kilroy, an industrial real estate developer. Vaughan wrote briefly about his experience in an op-ed for the New York Times (9/2/79). An editor read it, and asked him to keep going, turn it into a book, giving him just three months. He did, taking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733313508
• ISBN13: 9781733313506
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Choptank Word Bank
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"