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Saturday 3rd June 2006. At 1150 a huge, white cloud of Johnson’s Baby Powder was shot into the air one-mile due west of Plymouth’s breakwater light house. The same happened again at 1155. Then precisely at 12 noon BST an even larger puff of baby powder was exploded across Plymouth Sound as both barrels of a 12-bore shot gun signalled the start of the inaugural Jester Challenge to Newport, Rhode Island. Any competitor too close to the committee yacht, a 12-ton gaff cutter, at ‘the gun’ would smell sweetly way out into the Atlantic. There was nearly a delay for the skippers of that first Jester Challenge in 2006 they refused to sail if Jester, Blondie Hasler’s iconic 25-foot, junk rigged vessel was not with them, yet Jester herself was, that morning, still ashore at Alec Blagdon’s boat yard. Almost at the last minute she www.southwindsmagazine.com
