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The only person who might be able to remember me after I left home -- I had a hideous row with my father at the time -- was a man called Fastnet, with whom I lodged in
Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Coast guards had to rescue 21 crew taking part in the Fastnet offshore race on Monday after a yacht capsized off the Irish coast.
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He steered the winning boat through 55-knot winds in England's 1979 Fastnet Race, the most lethal yacht race ever, with 15 sailors killed.
It Is a Merry Life Angus Phillips 2011
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He steered the winning boat through 55-knot winds in England's 1979 Fastnet Race, the most lethal yacht race ever, with 15 sailors killed.
It Is a Merry Life Angus Phillips 2011
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The biennial race takes the fleet 608 miles along the south coast of the UK, across the Celtic Sea to the Fastnet Rock off south west Ireland, before returning around the Scilly Isles to the finish in Plymouth.
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Ian Loffhagen, racing manager at the Royal Ocean Racing Club which organises the race, said that the yacht capsized between the Fastnet Rock and the Pantaenius Buoy.
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Worse: the friend-in-law who has known your more recent friend longer than you have, and never misses a chance to rub it in, making you feel forlorn because you weren't there on that memorable day when they occupied the town hall, won the Fastnet Race or the vote at closing time.
Boring for Britain 2011
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The Baltimore RNLI lifeboat takes part in the rescue of the 100ft US yacht Rambler 100 which capsized off the Irish coast in the Fastnet race with 21 onboard.
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Some 314 yachts are taking part in this year's Rolex Fastnet Race.
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The Fastnet Race first took place in 1925, but its reputation as one of the most demanding in the world was underlined in 1979 when 15 people lost their lives and dozens of boats were lost amid strong winds and turbulent seas.
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