Ice, huskies and Peter & Jenny Penguin
The Year of the Quiet Sun: a leader’s perspective In 1968, Adrian Hayter presented my sister Sarah and me, then four years old, with our...
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Over 30 years, I've learned to sail, learned to run a lifestyle-block and now I'm learning to launch.
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Rebecca Hayter
- Aug 13
- 2 min
Father's Day read: Rick Dodson's story
Greetings, Thanks to NZ Booklovers for a candid review of my latest book: Storms Ahead Rick Dodson: America’s Cup champion to...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Aug 5
- 2 min
One man's guide to alternative therapies
What You Wish For One man’s guide to life, death and alternative therapies By Paul Blacklow and Rebecca Hayter Fifteen years ago I...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Jul 22
- 2 min
Des Townson's biography sails into my library
One of the most fun funerals - ok, strictly a memorial - I ever attended was yacht designer Des Townson's. It was led by his close friend...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Oops, I bought a launch
Sometimes you just have to do something that you’ve said you’ll never do. It lets your inner, crazy rebel out to play. In my case, having...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
High Heels and Gumboots: Romeo and Juliet
The course of true love never did run smooth, even in the chookhouse. A marine biologist once told me I had committed the gentle sin of...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Apr 10, 2022
- 3 min
The doggedness of ducks
About a year after coming to Oceanspirit, I finally got my ducks in a row: Donald, Dorothy and Delia Duck. Muscovy ducks, they were...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
The Big Storm
I still call it the Big Storm. It threw deck chairs into the tussock as I pulled on my jacket and ran to feed the chooks. As I passed the...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
Bagging up nicely
In my career as a yachting journalist, I’ve routinely used terms such as ‘tacking for the lay’, ‘bear-away set’ and ‘finite element...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
Heading Home
“The South Island is calling me back.” I’d been saying it for 15 years. Late at night in my Auckland apartment, I’d go online and Google:...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
The art of tractor maintenance
If only the best moments of my life took as long as those agonising seconds to roll into the ditch. I had plenty of time to put my foot...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Oct 7, 2021
- 3 min
The day the engine died
The adventures and misadventures of boat maintenance... After a year of boat ownership, I had become more confident in handling my Raven...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Finally, let's go cruising
From 1 to 10 October 2021, Yachting New Zealand is joining Steering the Course: a worldwide festival to encourage women into sailing....
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Rebecca Hayter
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
The day I beat a split pin
From 1 to 10 October 2021, Yachting New Zealand is joining Steering the Course: a worldwide festival to encourage women into sailing. I...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
Davidson takes a bow
America's Cup yacht designer Laurie Davidson died in Auckland, New Zealand on 4 October 2021. This is a tribute I wrote about him in...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
I didn’t mean to buy a boat…
By the time I was in my mid-20s, I had done a bit of sailing on keelers. My boyfriend owned a 27ft Cibert design called Mrs Oates and we...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
High Heels and Gumboots
Call the midwife The ewe had been walking around for three hours with the nose, eyes and sometimes the tongue of a lamb poking out her...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
High Heels and Gumboots
I love it when you torque dirty There’s a quaint notion that people leave the city in search of a quiet lifestyle block in the country. A...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 18, 2021
- 5 min
"We fight to the end"
When it won the 36th America’s Cup on 17 March 2021, New Zealand became the first country to have twice won and twice defended the...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Burling's backyard
There was plenty of emotion in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour on Tuesday, 16 March, as Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Ross Prada...
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