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NOVEMBER 2008
Thanks to fellow Jester Challenger Paul Mead (Indecision) for this extraordinary photo of Mingming off the Eddystone Rock.
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OCTOBER 2008
On a cold winter's day, what better place to do a bit of boatbuilding than a nice warm kitchen? Minging's hatch coamings under construction.
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OCTOBER 2008
On a cold winter's day, what better place to do a bit of boatbuilding than a nice warm kitchen? Minging's hatch coamings under construction.
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SEPTEMBER 2008
Jester Challenger extraordinaire, Alexei Fedoruk, hand splices his own rigging. After the 2008 Jester Azores Challenge, Alexei was dismasted and lost his rudder on his way to Newport R.I.. He sailed six hundred miles in 25 days under jury rig with no rudder. Alexei is a proper seaman who does not assume the right to be rescued. I will tell his full story another time.
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AUGUST 2008
The start of the Jester Azores Challenge. Jester herself astern.
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JULY 2008
Thursday, 29th May 2008, Queen Anne's Battery marina, Plymouth. The Jester Challenge fleet at dawn.
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JUNE 2008
Sunday, 18th May 2008, Queen Anne's Battery marina, Plymouth. Mingming, all alone in the visitors' berths, awaits the rest of the fleet for the Jester Azores Challenge. Sail and self-steering gear are still to be rigged.
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MAY 2008
Winter 2005/6. Mingming is the sole yacht still afloat as a winter sunset settles on the River Crouch.
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APRIL 2008
Another scan of a newspaper photo from 1974, showing the high-tech yachting apparel of the day - anorak, home-sewn harness, jeans and bare feet.
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MARCH 2008
This is a scan of a newspaper photo from 1974. I have my first hot drink in a month as John MacFarlane, commodore of the Mooloolaba Yacht Club, welcomes Roc and me to Australia with a flask and sandwiches
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FEBRUARY 2008
A pilot whale sprays Mingming with a flick of its fluke
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JANUARY 2008
The Endeavour II aground on the bar of Parengarenga Harbour, northern NZ, February 1971. I was aboard her at the time. The story of this shipwreck forms one part of my book Voyages of a Simple Sailor (available for order here)
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DECEMBER 2007
A swallow hitches a ride, mid-Tasman, 1974.
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NOVEMBER 2007
Mingming drying out for a scrub-off at Osborne Bay, IOW, on her way to the 2006 Jester Challenge.
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OCTOBER 2007
A young pilot whale has a quick look at Mingming.What on earth does it make of her?
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