Jester Challenge 2024. Part 1, from the start in Plymouth to off the north west coast of Spain
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Sailing a 1970 Contessa 26 in the 2024 Jester Challenge from Plymouth to Terceira in the Azores, a trip of some 1200 nautical miles as the crow flies. Needless to say, the actual route trvelled is far longer than that!
The Jester challenege is a single handed sailing adventure for small boats under 30 ft long. Once described as :‘a modern experiment in old-fashioned self-reliance, self-sufficiency and personal responsibility’.
This trip took 14 days of non stop sailing, no motors allowed, and all sorts of conditions were encountered on the way, from calms to 35 knot near gales. Here is part 1, uploaded from the Terceira in the Azores just before beginning the return journey.
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What a wonderful adventure!
Absolutely!
Jim, many congratulations on your great achievement and much enjoyed this video. As a fellow Cardiffian & Contessa 26 owner, it would be great to meet up on your return. I really am in awe!
Sure that would be good to do. I am based in Cardiff
Well done Jim, really impressive! See you in the bar at CYC - fair winds ⛵️
@@1962gms yeah thanks and a big hello to all the CYC folks!
I thought that was John Cooper Clarke driving the boat. Weather fax on an iPad is genius!
Thanks Andy, its very handy, and free too!
Many thanks for sharing your Jester adventures!
My pleqasure!
Thanks for the video, what an excellent adventure!
Thanks Hugh, there's more to come..
Thanks for the interesting video it’s very inspiring. Could you tell us more about you weather fax setup please.
Hi Andrew, yes, I'll be covering that in more detail soon in one of the upcoming sequels to this..
You're a good sea cook! :)
Thanks Dave!
Well done and thanks for sharing! Your video gave me the motivation I needed to go and work on my boat :)
Yeah, boats are cool!
Hi Jim , just picked up on your channel , big thumbs up , love the raw video , phone stuff , all sort of noises , am a motor boat , loch , not lake !! guy , will keep watching and learning 👍
Thanks Jim, its very under produced, and just what I am thinking of at the moment, I'm glad you like it!
Very good. 👍well done👏
Thanks!
Glad you made good time, maybe we will meet at Cardiff
PS Gary from Dyola with Beth
Yes let's hope so, or perhaps even on the way!
Hi Jim, good on you for making this video. The Jester has proven to be a challenge rather than a race for sure over the years. I was interested to see you are using a portable HF radio for weather fax. What antenna do you use on board and is it fixed or also portable?
Also, have you considered doing a boat tour, with an insight into your setup and choices / reasoning.
Yeah, I am going to cover the weatherfax idea more fully in one of the upcoming episodes very soon!
I hadnt thought of the boat toiur, but could do, sounds like a great idea, thank you
Jim I use a weather fax and navtex app on an ipad (from a company called Black Cat, no affiliation) connected via audio cable (to avoid ambient noise) to a tiny pocket Belka radio. Using the supplied telescopic antenna I can get good reception in Europe (picking the right freq for the time of day and distance to transmitter is key), though would like to find a good portable antenna to get greater range.
@@brendongrunewald yes the black cat app is what I use, but I find I have to use an antenna (just 10m of wire strung up the mast} to get a usable signal. And I just put the iPad close to the radio speaker which seems to be fine. I'm going to make a video about this as several people seem interested, so watch this space!
Hello Jim, well done, I’m inspired to try the jester in a few years …. is that a wind-rover wind vane? Can you go over your short wave - iPad weather setup in a little more detail please? Thanks 🙏
Hi David, yes, I am going to cover the short wave in detail as several people have asked for it. I'll get onto it as soon as I can, I'm presently awaiting fair weather in the Azores to return to the UK
oh nice, and thank you, safe travels ⛵️
Very real sailing Jim 👍 is your windvane steering a Mk 3 wave rover set up? I’m thinking this is the only realistic option for me on my Sadler 26 for the Baltimore challenge next year…
Loving your approach and attitude 😊😊
Yes, that's the one. It is straightforward to build and has now steered for more than 4000 miles with no problems
@@rolty1 Thanks for that Jim.. I’ll get cracking 👍🙏
Jim, congrats on completing the Azores challenge. I’m meeting Alan, the designer of your wind vane (MK3) tomorrow. He’s sailing Wave Rover 2 from Baltimore US to Baltimore IRL and will make landfall tomorrow afternoon. He’s a big fan of the Jester Challenge.
Did he do a stopover in the Azores? It looks like a super good little boat he's built
@@clavertonyes, he did a stop over in Horta.
Yes I met him here in Horts, and did a blog post true gentleman!
thought I recognised the wind vane!
He's arriving Ireland just now? Well done him!
Decisions decisions.
Were you happy going across the traffic lane, do you wish you had done it when you firt thought of it?
Thank you
I wish I'd spotted it before I arrived, then I would have changed course a little bit and missed it comfortably... biggest mistake of the challenge I think!
20nm in 2.5hrs?
I was thinking that a I edited the video, I must have been having a senior moment! Perhaps I read wind speed instead of distance?
@@rolty1 no worries guessed it was something like that, great vidio even though your camera died .thank you.
By the way watching from South Australia 🇦🇺
Does being nice to inanimate objects ever work?🤔🤔😜😜I find it don't even work with women most of the time.😒😒
@@fibber2u oh sometimes it can! But when something needs to be told exactly where it stands I can do that too 😉