Rebecca Hayter
As a long time yachting editor with Boating New Zealand magazine and former lifestyle blocker columnist for North and South magazine, Rebecca Hayter covers the range from technical, DIY, personal, humorous and downright embarrassing. She has 15 journalism awards including 2006 Editor of the Year Supreme Overall Winner and 2020 Columnist/Blogger of the Year for her column High Heels and Gumboots in North and South magazine.
She has written five books: Endless Summer, Oceans Alone, What You Wish For, Wild Seas to Greenland and Storms Ahead. Please visit her website: www.rebeccahayter.co.nz
Genre:
- Adult Non-Fiction
Skills:
- Editing
- Journalism
- Proofreading
- Technical Writing
Branch:
Top of the South
Location:
Takaka
Publications:
Oceans Alone - Chris Sayer's solo adventures on the high seas
The story of Chris Sayer's dogged determination to win the Mini Transat Race.
What You Wish For - one man's guide to life, death and alternative therapies
co-written with Paul Blacklow who died of motor neurone disease. I took over the book after his death, without meeting him.
Endless Summer - the Penny Whiting story
WILD SEAS TO GREENLAND
When former Whitbread Race winner Ross Field refitted Rosemary, a 20-year-old aluminium yacht, for high latitude cruising, he applied Kiwi DIY, latest technology and 35 years of ocean racing experience. Rebecca Hayter followed his refit in detail. Then she signed on as crew for one of the world’s most dangerous oceans.
This is a book primarily for yachties who sail offshore or who dream of doing so, as a rare opportunity to accompany a highly skilled New Zealand sailor in his refit decisions and skippering the boat across the North Atlantic to Greenland. Rebecca Hayter is one of New Zealand's most experienced and awarded yachting journalists; as crew on Rosemary, she notes her skipper's strong character, his management of the boat through North Atlantic storms and observes the wild scenery of Greenland, as well as sharing her own challenges relating to the voyage, physical and mental.
Storms Ahead - Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian
Storms Ahead - Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian
In 1997, America’s Cup winning strategist Rick Dodson thought he was invincible. He had a happy marriage, a stack of wins in national and international sailing, and was part-owner in one of the world’s most technically advanced sailmakers.
But a diagnosis of MS (multiple sclerosis) threatened his world. He kept it secret and was strategist in two more America’s Cups. In 2012, Dodson co-founded Kiwi Gold Sailing to compete at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. It was a four-year campaign and as MS increasingly took effect, he was in a race against his own disease.
Storms Ahead includes interviews with Sir Russell Coutts and other members of Team New Zealand 1995. With a Foreword by Black Magic mastman Matt Mason, it captures the extraordinary mateship that won the America’s Cup in 1995 and 2000, and was a major factor in Rick Dodson’s Paralympic campaign.