The Jester Helm

THE JESTER CHALLENGE

Seamanship without Showmanship

He knows not where he's going 
For the ocean will decide. 
It’s not the destinations,
It's the glory of the ride.

When Ewen announced that he was retiring from the “one-man, non-committee that was not-coordinating the Jester Challenge” he asked for volunteers to take over the tiller.

This resulted in the formation of ‘The Helm’: three skippers who work to continue the ethos that Ewen instigated in 2006 and developed over his 14 year leadership. The first generation of the Helm included Roger Taylor of Mingming fame who was one of the original Jester ‘founding fathers’ and did much to ensure the continuation of the challenge and establish working practices within the helm.

A helm of three has proved to be a wise choice, small enough to work by consensus but large enough to share the tasks involved in the ‘non-co-ordination’ of challenges.

The current Jester Helm is George Arnison, Bernie Branfield and Howard Chivers, we can be emailed via the contact form on this website, and look forward to seeing you at the start.