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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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
- 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
- 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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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min
Who's got the most tricks left?
Races 7 and 8 in the 36th America’s Cup showed what Emirates Team New Zealand has been up to while Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli honed its...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
Tripping over their own shadow
In the closest America’s Cup for decades, Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli have so far traded wins, one for one, to...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
Truth and Lies in AC36
Whenever I hear anyone say: “Everyone believed Emirates Team New Zealand had several knots of speed on Luna Rossa,” I timidly put up my...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
The day the dream ended
RACE 7 & 8, PRADA CUP FINALS, 21 FEBRUARY 2021 “It’s been a wild ride,” said Sir Ben Ainslie as he and his team, Ineos Team UK, picked up...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Ben pulls a fast one on Jimmy
Yesterday, 20 February 2021, Ineos Team UK won its first race in the Prada Cup Finals against Prada Pirelli. If he hadn’t, Prada Pirelli...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
Shot across the bow
As usual the sparring on the water is superseded by the sparring in the media, and not nearly as much fun. For those who just came in,...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Stiff upper lips and Aussie drawls
Ineos Team UK has sailed this campaign in losing streaks and winning streaks. In the Prada Cup Round Robins, it was on a winner –...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 14, 2021
- 2 min
Ouch.... and ouch!
Yesterday, Saturday 13 February, was the first day of the last stage of the Prada Cup 2021. In America’s Cup terms, it was rare: no...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
The first day of the final stage...
Today is the first day of the last stage of the Prada Cup 2021 - but it could be a case of: suddenly, nothing happened. If the wind...
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Rebecca Hayter
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
Mending a Broken Heart
How American Magic got its broken boat back in the race. Watching Terry Hutchinson’s leadership in action within hours of Patriot’s...
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