Left for Dead

In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the six-hundred-mile course of the UK''s Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within forty-eight hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea, throwing one of the world''s most prestigious races into bedlam and taking the lives of fifteen sailors. Ward''s boat, Grimalkin, was capsized again and again, and the skipper...