San Antonio College Library

Presents, in pictures and text, the opulent craft of the very wealthy, especially yachts of the present century up to and including Adnan Khashoggi's "Nabila."

N August of 1979, Nick Ward began the 600-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within 48 hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea. By the time it had passed, it had thrown one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and taken the lives of fifteen sailors. Ward's boat, Grimalkin, was capsized again and again, and the skipper lost overboard; after hours of struggle,...