60 Seconds With Jules Hall…

Before we get to this week’s 60 seconds, we wanted to share a bit more about last week’s highlighted member. People got very excited about Candice Cushway’s brush with fame as a Gladiator, and with some impressive Googling our fanboys have unearthed the original Gladiator’s episode starring Candice which you can view HERE.

It’s hard to follow in a Galdiator’s footsteps, but someone has to do it, and although he might not have been on a TV show, Jules Hall is often a Gladiator on Sydney Harbour…  

1. How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? 
I've been on and around boats my whole life. My earliest memories are down at the sea sailing with my folks. 

2. If money (& sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? 
I did a lot of offshore racing in my twenties. And loved it. This year the Sydney-Hobart has a two handed division for the first time. I do find that quite tempting...

3. What is your sailing goal? 
To always enjoy it!

4. Tell us the back story to your laser's name? 
At uni I did some big offshore races. But despite being GenX I always had a few millennial tendencies and was generally convinced I should be skipper not crew. So when I left uni I saved up and bought an old boat. A 1962 carvel mahogany folkboat to be exact. About that time I read Rudyard Kiplin's 'Captains Courageous'.  It had a big impact on me. The lead character is 'Disko Troop'. Combining that with my early twenties penchants for parties and hawaiin shirts we called the boat 'Disko Trooper'. Every sailing boat I've owned since has carried that name.

5. If you could add any ingredient to our already world’s best toasties – what would it be?
Wouldn't change them for the world. 

6. What are your second/ third favourite hobbies (obviously assuming sailing holds the #1 spot)
Sailing, and um, sailing?

7. Describe what you do for work in less than 5 words? 
Run Australia's best advertising agency 

8. What’s the first international flight you are going to book post Covid-19? And why? 
Naples, Italy - I've already paid for the yacht charter. Just need to be allowed to use it!

9. What’s your favourite TV show, movie, and or book?
Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling. Read it! 

10. Tell us something interesting about yourself that members of the club don’t know?
In 1989 I got one of the very first Laser 4.7s. It seemed rather big back then. Cold was normal for sailing in England. So much so we sometimes sailed in the snow...the below was taken just after the boat was packed up and put back on its mooring. I can still remember how much my hands hurt when they thawed out!

Snowy sailing.

A young Jules.

Jules today.