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30 for 30 Shorts: Ted Turner's Greatest Race
Our latest film, directed by Gary Jobson, tells the story of a dark and stormy night in one of the world's most prestigious yacht races
by Grantland Staff on June 3, 2015
Welcome back to our 30 for 30 documentary short series.
When Ted Turner entered his yacht Tenacious in the famed Fastnet Race in 1979, he did not need to prove himself. Turner already had the following on his résumé: founder of a television network, owner of the Atlanta Hawks and Braves, and, most appropriate here, winner of the 1977 America's Cup. Still, he loved to sail and loved to race with his crew of carefully selected mates. This race would prove to be like no other Turner had ever entered when a freak storm turned the Celtic Sea into chaos. When the winds stopped and the race was over, many of the 303 entrants hadn't even finished and, tragically, 15 sailors had lost their lives. The victorious crew of the Tenacious relive the voyage, of which Turner famously said: "I was more afraid of losing than I was of dying."
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