Rebecca Hayter
Rebecca Hayter has written for a wide range of magazines, collecting 15 awards in journalism, including Editor of the Year Overall Supreme Winner and Best Columnist/Blogger in magazines. Her sixth book, High Heels and Gumboots, is due to be published in April 2025: For anyone who has dreamed of owning a lifestyle block, here's the hilarious, heartwarming and brutal reality.
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.