Race 3, Ineos Britannia vs American Magic
A re-match from 1851 Round Robin 1, race 3 29 August 2024, day one This is shaping up for a good match. I’m picking American Magic to...
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Rebecca Hayter
Sep 42 min read
Race 2, Emirates Team New Zealand vs Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli
Round Robin one, race day 2, 29 August 2024 Technically, this race counts for nothing on the points table. Emotionally, competitively, it...
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Rebecca Hayter
Sep 42 min read
Race 1, Orient Express Racing vs Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Round robin 1, 29 Aug, day one Orient Express Racing of France on port, Alinghi Red Bull Racing on starboard. A soft 6-8 knots easterly...
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Rebecca Hayter
Aug 303 min read
How foiling revolutionised mainsail technology
This article was first published on northsails.com , January 2021. By Rebecca Hayter When Sir Ben Ainslie described the cunningham as...
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Rebecca Hayter
Mar 198 min read
A Mosquito finds its wings
This month, a Mosquito aircraft made its first flight from Ardmore, NZ after a lengthy build process which had been largely inspired by...
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Rebecca Hayter
Dec 25, 20237 min read
Street fighter
By Rebecca Hayter First published in NZ Yachting special issue, 2012 Republished in memory of the no-bullshit John Street, who loved and...
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Rebecca Hayter
Nov 14, 20236 min read
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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Rebecca Hayter
Aug 13, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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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