''Jester'' is the name of a modified
Nordic Folkboat sailed by the famous marine inventor and single-handed yachtsman
Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler, notably coming second to
Francis Chichester
Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE (17 September 1901 – 26 August 1972) was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the worl ...
in the 1960
OSTAR
The Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (STAR) is an east-to-west yacht race across the North Atlantic. When inaugurated in 1960, it was the first single-handed ocean yacht race; it is run from Plymouth in England to Newport, Rhode Island in th ...
, completing the voyage in 48 days.
Jester was rigged with Chinese-style
junk sails, a rig with the reported advantage of being easier for a singlehanded sailor to manage.
Jester – a Short History
Mike Richey ''jesterchallenge.wordpress.com'', accessed 20 August 2023 Hasler subsequently wrote ''Practical Junk Rig'' (), a treatise on modern junk rigging of sailboats.
References
Individual sailing vessels
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