Articles by Ned Shuman

BOB SMYTH

Reflections on the 1979 Fastnet Race

By Captain Ned Shuman, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 1999
On 11 August 1979, the U. S. Naval Academy yacht Alliance crossed the starting line off the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, on the biannual Fastnet ...