Recent content by Jacarah

Now I'm in a huff....... OK. Plymouth it is then. But I'm not buying the drink. Dammit, the whole point of the Irish Sea start was to avoid the buying the drink. I'll just probably arrive minutes before the start instead. Or just after the bars close.

I only asked.

I am exploring the idea of a dual location start for Jester 2008. For competitors (I don't know how many) from along the Irish Sea coasts of the UK and Ireland - it is quite a journey to Plymouth singlehanded. I've done it about 8 times (3 days hard work every time) and it's a miserable...

Having broken autohelms and rattled booms to bits in similar circumstances I have chased up the following theory - which does make seem to make sense. A trough between two waves is the same as an aircraft wind upside down. The wind in the trough moves faster to avoid that which natures abhors -...

Had a brilliant idea. Get a container, make it buoyant and enter it. Can't be that hard as they all seem to float after they fall of a ship. What are the chances then of hitting another container?

EEk! Steady on! I am one of the messengers. It'll be the armoured-plated folkboat for me then.

Jake, I take what you say to heart and being an avid reader of the magazines you mention, I accept that the specialist press will probably follow it responsibly. But as I am a cynic through experience, I passionately believe you can't keep the general media "fully aware". They will invent their...

SAE 140 is spot on. I work in the “media” as a senior journalist. My advice would be AT ALL COSTS avoid publicity of the type you refer to. Avoid journalists, sponsorship - keep Jester out of the poplar media. Avoid personalities, rules and just leave quietly for the Azores/USA. If the “media”...

Tut Tut! Had you been on the main Jester Challenge site and browsed the recommended books, you would have seen the book by Lin and Larry Pardey, Storm Tactics Handbook. Purchased through the site, some money goes to the Jester Challenge. The book is an excellent handbook on all of the above -...