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	Blondie Hasler got the idea for Jester in a 22 Square Meter. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blondie Hasler got the idea for Jester in a 22 Square Meter.
		Inspired by Uffa Fox, Hasler conceived the idea of light displacement, seaworthy sailboats as being a better choice for long-distance ocean travel rather than the slow, heavy, ocean-racers that were the common-wisdom choice of the post-war bluewater sailor.
		Hasler believed that ocean safety meant the ability to continue on with some sail in any weather condition.
	home.no /tjohnson/hasler.htm (128 words)

	Herbert Hasler at AllExperts
		H.G. "Blondie" Hasler DSO OBE (1914–1987) was a distinguished WWII figure responsible for many of the concepts which led to the foundation of the Special Boat Service SBS, a water-borne unit of the UK special forces.
		'Blondie' Hasler is also well known in sailing circles as one of the father figures of single-handed sailing, due to his invention of the first self-steering gear for yachts.
		Blondie bought Jester some years prior to the first OSTAR and specified modifications such as a fully decked top with two circular holes in the cabin top set on a standard Folkboat hull.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/he/herbert_hasler.htm (679 words)

	Herbert Hasler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		'Blondie' Hasler was a distinguished WWII figure responsible for many of the concepts which led to the foundation of the Special Boat Service SBS, a water born unit of the UK special forces.
		'Blondie' Hasler is also well known in sailing circles as one of the father figures of single handed sailing due to his invention of the first self-steering device for yachts.
		Blondie bought Jester some years prior to the first OSTAR and specified modifications such as a fully decked top with two circular holes in the cabin top set on a standard Folkboat hull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herbert_Hasler (636 words)

	Operation Frankton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Led by Major Herbert "Blondie" Hasler, the men launched their six kayaks from the British submarine HMS Tuna on 7 December, some 10 miles from the mouth of the Gironde Estuary.
		Only Blondie Hasler and kayak partner Bill Sparks made it all the way as the other two were betrayed by locals and captured at Montlieu.
		French authorities have named the overland escape route used by Blondie Hasler and Bill Sparks, which included crossing the Pyrenees (the mountain range between France and Spain}, the Frankton Trail which is now a tourist attraction for hikers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Frankton (455 words)

	Blondie Hasler got the idea for Jester in a 22 Square Meter. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blondie Hasler got the idea for Jester in a 22 Square Meter.
		Inspired by Uffa Fox, Hasler conceived the idea of light displacement, seaworthy sailboats as being a better choice for long-distance ocean travel rather than the slow, heavy, ocean-racers that were the common-wisdom choice of the post-war bluewater sailor.
		Hasler believed that ocean safety meant the ability to continue on with some sail in any weather condition.
	www.home.no /tjohnson/hasler.htm (128 words)

	Introduction to Operation Frankton
		Hasler proposed the formation of a new unit, with the cover title of the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, to conduct experiments with the equipment he was inventing and acquiring, and eventually to go to war with it against Germany.
		Those Hasler selected he did so for their self reliance, mental stability, tenacity and powers of endurance; they were to need all these qualities in abundance in the months to come.
		Hasler's method of placing mines was that used by, and learned from, 101 Troop of the Army Commandos who, in their raid on Boulogne, sank a large tanker.
	www.royalmarinesregimental.co.uk /histcockintro.html (1206 words)

	Cockleshell Hero
		When Hasler summoned his marines to the forward torpedo room of the submarine Tuna before the operation, they were told that their mission was to attack a fleet of armed German merchantmen, which was preparing to raid British shipping.
		Sparks and Hasler were seen, but not compromised, by French civilians as they used the flood tide by night and lay in hiding by day.
		Eventually he and Hasler were led over the Pyrenees to Spain; but Laver and Mills were captured and shot.
	home.freeuk.net /johndillon/cockleshell_hero.htm (752 words)

	Operation Frankton. Who is Operation Frankton? What is Operation Frankton? Where is Operation Frankton? Definition of ...
		During World War II, Operation Frankton was a British Combined Operations raid on shipping at Bordeaux, France in December, 1942, by 12 men of the Boom Patrol Detachment, Royal Navy, in two-man Cockle MK II kayaks, (*the Cockleshell Heroes).
		Led by Maj. Herbert Â‘BlondieÂ’ Hasler, the men launched their six kayaks from British submarine HMS Tuna on 7 December, some 10 miles from the mouth of the River Gironde.
		Only Hasler and kayak partner Bill Sparks made it all the way as the other two were betrayed by locals and captured at Montlieu.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Operation_Frankton (400 words)

	The Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race 1960-2000 PM
		Hasler was the only one who spoke French and he and a Private named Billy Sparks managed to return to Britain via Spain with the help of the Resistance.
		Hasler soon proved to himself that the Chinese rig was a marvel of engineering.
		Hasler was unable to find a sponsor or generate any interest.
	www.angelfire.com /or/petermarsh/ostar.htm (5306 words)

	Cockleshell Hero
		When Hasler summoned his marines to the forward torpedo room of the submarine Tuna before the operation, they were told that their mission was to attack a fleet of armed German merchantmen, which was preparing to raid British shipping.
		Sparks and Hasler were seen, but not compromised, by French civilians as they used the flood tide by night and lay in hiding by day.
		As the pair proceeded to place their limpet mines on the sides of ships, they thought that they had been seen by a sentry, and were crushed between two ships moving together.
	home.freeuk.com /johndillon/cockleshell_hero.htm (752 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Last Cockleshell Hero dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One of the inflatable boats was damaged as it was prepared for launch, leaving ten of the mundane-sounding Boom Patrol Detachment to face the freezing waters, dangerous tides and currents, and the German defence forces.
		But after numerous scrapes and near things, Hasler and Sparks made it to Ruffec – only to find that their contact was not available and the Resistance knew nothing about them.
		Hasler was awarded the DSO for his bravery, and Sparks the DSM.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2002/0212/0002120902.asp (535 words)

	Blondie Hasler
		Blondie’s sailing fame took off in 1932, the year he was commissioned into the Royal Marines, when he sailed a fourteen-foot dinghy single-handed from Plymouth to Portsmouth and back.
		In 1946 Blondie owned the race-winning yacht Tre Sang but the next year his sailing changed to cruising in Petula, on board which he wrote the standard-bearer of yachtsman’s pilots; Harbour and Anchorage’s of the North Brittany Coast.
		Blondie came second but it was his performance that caught the sailing public’s eye; beginning a major revolution in ocean cruising and racing.
	www.jesterinfo.org /blondiehasler.html (424 words)

	Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, L.L.C. - : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'.
		He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and trained the twelve men who made up this most secret team and led them on their daring mission, code name 'Operation Frankton', to attack enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbor.
		The story of how Blondie managed to make contact with the Maquis once he and Sparks had completed the mission is well worth a book in itself.
	www.casematepublishing.com /cgi/titleinfo.pl?sku=0850529506 (187 words)

	Blondie Hasler
		Colonel H.G. "Blondie" Hasler born in Dublin, Ireland and was commissioned in the Royal Marines in 1932.
		He invented the Perfecting the “Hasler Gear” for self steering yachts enabled the skipper to set a course fixed at an angle to the prevailing wind allowing the single-handed sailor to take care of other duties aboard the vessel.
		He also pioneered the use of a Chinese junk-rig which allowed all sail adjustments to be done from the safety of the boat's cabin.
	www.museumofyachting.org /blondie_hassler.htm (259 words)

	BCU \| British Canoe Union \| THE HASLER SERIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Hasler Series is based on a divisional system and is competed throughout the season (September to August) on a regional basis.
		Two were captured but Major ”Blondie” Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks made their way to Spain – the only two of the original 10 men to survive.
		The Hasler Trophy was presented by Lloyds Underwriters to commemorate the raid of the so-called “Cockleshell Heroes” and has been competed for since 1957.
	www.bcu.org.uk /bcu/2125-2-the-hasler-series.aspx (543 words)

	RWYC OSTAR - the Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race
		In 1959, at the request of Lt.Col. H.G. (Blondie) Hasler, the Royal Western Yacht Club decided to organise a single-handed transatlantic race - and so a tradition was born.
		Blondie Hasler had for some time been trying to promote the idea of a single-handed race across the Atlantic against the prevailing winds and currents.
		But Blondie persevered and, with Francis Chichester, approached the RWYC whose Commodore at the time was Sir Winston Churchill and got a positive response.
	www.rwyc.org /rwdb/article/view.asp?id=51&sm=OSTAR (287 words)

	Untitled
		From an idea proposed by Blondie Hasler in 1956 and supported by the Slocum Society, the race became a reality in June 1960.
		No one had ever raced across the Atlantic single-handed before and this experimental nature of the race, which was to remain, is most clearly shown in the widely differing routes of the competitors.
		Hasler took an extreme northern route to sail around the top of depressions heading east and gain favourable winds.
	www.oceanware.co.uk /sailing/open50/background/bgRaceHistory60.html (197 words)

	Guardian \| Corporal Bill Sparks
		Hasler and Sparks paddled away without incident, but the second kayak was torn as it was being pushed through the hatch.
		Of these, one pair of marines drowned after selflessly obeying an order to let go of their comrades' canoes, which were in danger of capsizing too; the other two got ashore, only to be captured and shot by the Germans.
		The four marines sank their canoes some 20 miles downstream and set off on a 100-mile march to contact the French Resistance "pipeline" which was meant to smuggle them to neutral Spain.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4563613-110595,00.html (715 words)

	The Special Boat Service
		The men numbered fewer than 60, under the command of Blondie Hasler.
		Hasler produced a paper outlining his vision of the future, defining the role of modern amphibious Special Forces.
		SCOBBS would train a core of men for beach surveying, intelligence gathering and sabotage, and within a year was placed under the command of the Royal Marines and merged with RMBPD and renamed COBBS (Combined Operations Beach and Boats Section).
	www.britains-smallwars.com /main/SBS.htm (2058 words)

	Practical Junk Rig \| TillerPublishing.com
		In this encyclopedic volume the late "Blondie" Hasler and his partner Jock McLeod, both pre-eminent in their field, have synthesized 25 years of research and development of the junk rig as adapted to western craft.
		Major Jock McLeod met Blondie Hasler in 1961 and they became close friends sailing Hasler's junk-rig Jester on Loch Ness where Hasler was setting up the first Loch Ness Monster investigation.
		McLeod became Hasler's partner in 1963 and was his enthusiastic disciple until Hasler's untimely death.
	www.tillerbooks.com /Practical_Junk_Rig.php (496 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lieutenant-Commander Dick Raikes
		One canoe was damaged, and he regretfully ordered its two-man crew not to go on the raid, even though "the two brave marines were almost in tears".
		As Hasler left Tuna, he asked Raikes to book lunch for them both at the Savoy on April 1.
		Richard Prendergast Raikes was born on January 21 1912, the son of an Indian Army major.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/28/db2802.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/28/ixportal.html (1116 words)

	Blondie_ : Popular Music Essential Information, explanation, and relevant links.
		Blondie was also the name of Adolf Hitler 's Alsatian dog.
		Blondie: The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel Hg Hasler Dso, Obe, Rm, Founder of the Sbs and Modern Single-Handed Ocean Racing by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
		Blondie: A Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel H G Hasler Dso, Obe, Croix De Guerre, Royal Marines by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
	essential-facts.com /music/rock-n-roll/Blondie_.html (262 words)

	Forum 34
		Blondie Hassler founded the first single-handed transatlantic race and came in second to Francis Chichester in that race.
		Hasler certainly gained some experience with his rig in the Trans Atlantic Race.
		A 16 year old boy sailed the oceans for 5 years with ease in a boat similar to Hasler's with a Bermudan sloop rig.
	www.ferrocement.org /forum34.html (942 words)

	This article is reproduced from Sailing Canada No 50
		When a vane rotated this blade around a vertical axis, like a rudder, the flow of water pushed it sideways with a considerable force.
		Hasler used this force by connecting the blade to the tiller through a quadrant and control lines.
		If my application of the principles discovered by Hasler and Gianoli is better, it is probably not because I am more gifted, but because I worked at it longer.
	www.capehorn.com /sections/article/YGonSelf-Steering.htm (1741 words)

	(Royal) Marine Bill Sparks -- obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hasler flew home, but Sparks was placed under close arrest and taken in a troopship to England, as no one remaining in Gibraltar could corroborate his story.
		The escape route which he and Hasler used is now a footpath dedicated to the Cockleshell Heroes.
		I'd also note that Hasler himself went on to help pioneer the sport of crossing oceans in small sailboats alone, and he practically invented the windvane self-steering device.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/799434/posts (1954 words)

	The Transat
		These five pioneer yachtsmen took very different options, with Blondie Hasler (Jester 25ft) opting for an extreme Northern route, Francis Chichester (Gipsy Moth III 40ft) and David Lewis (Cardinal Vertue 25ft) on the Great Circle route and Val Howells (Eira 25ft) and Jean Lacombe (Cap Horn 21.5ft) on the Azores route.
		Little was heard from the competitors during the race and fears grew for their safety but, finally, Chichester arrived 40 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes after leaving Plymouth.
		He had proved that his self-steering system was more than efficient to handle the 25ft Jester with a single Chinese lugsail on an unstayed mast, and claimed he had only had to take the tiller for one hour of the entire journey.
	www.thetransat.com /en/ShowArticle.aspx?ArticleID=123 (251 words)

	[No title]
		The object of The Jester Challenge is to further the spirit of long distance, single-handed sailing in small boats, purely for sport and the camaraderie of other competitors.
		It will also pay tribute to 'Blondie' Hasler, the originator of the Single-handed trans-Atlantic Race, inventor of the servo-pendulum self-steering gear and designer of Jester.
		Blondie Hasler collaborated with Rags Nierop on the design of the junk rigged Kingfisher 20 with a view to Ocean suitability, e.g.
	ybw.com /forums/printthread.php/Cat/0/Board/ym/main/688931/type/thread (599 words)

	Cruising Association Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A rather too laudatory biography of "Blondie" Hasler, the Royal Marine officer whose wartime exploits were published and filmed in the 1950s as "The Cockleshell Heroes" - a title which the self-effacing Hasler heartily disliked.
		This recounts Hasler's revolutionary entry into offshore racing, his cruises, his growing interest in designing unconventional boats - such as his famous Jester - his hunt for the Loch Ness monster, and his organisation of the first single-handed transatlantic race.
		But anyone with any knowledge of irregular maritime warfare during World War II will regard as gratuitous the dust jacket's claim that he founded the postwar Special Boat Service, though he nade important contributions to it.
	www.cruising.org.uk /reviews/r6southby.htm (206 words)

	Blondie: A Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel H G Hasler DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, Royal Marines - Ewen Southby-Tailyour ...
		Blondie: A Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel H G Hasler DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, Royal Marines
		He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and trained the twelve men who made up this most secret team and led them on their daring mission, code name 'Operation Frankton', to attack enemy shipping in Bordeaux.
		Blondie reveals Herbert George Hasler as an extraordinary figure who makes this one of the outstanding biographies of the year.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0850529506/Blondie:_A_Biography_of_Lieutenant-Colonel_H_G_Hasler_DSO__OBE__Croix_de_Guerre__Royal_Marines.htm (187 words)

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