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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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Rebecca Hayter
Oct 5, 20218 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
"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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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Rebecca Hayter
Jan 17, 20212 min read
The Prada Cup park
If the America’s Cup is the Formula One of matchracing, then Saturday 16 January was like rationing the fuel for the race cars and hiding...
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Rebecca Hayter
Jan 16, 20213 min read
Wake up the Brits!
OK so to all my friends and rellies in the UK, I’ve just phoned you all to wake you up because it is wrong for you to miss the excitement...
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Rebecca Hayter
Jan 12, 20214 min read
Sheila II: the boat and the book
The Albert Strange yawl Sheila II is famous for her title role in Adrian Hayter’s book Sheila in the Wind (Hodder and Stoughton, 1959),...
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