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A New Life [PDF] FEBRUARY 2012 Cruising World Magazine  Preview: Ten years ago I first watched the movie Cast Away. It's a story about a man marooned on a remote, uninhabited South Pacific island. It's a story of adventure, survival and discovery. The film's message resonated with me as it was released the same year we bought a rather worn-out 1981 Cabo Rico.... [read more] |
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At Home and At Work, Afloat [PDF] JANUARY 2012 Cruising World Magazine Preview: Over the last four years I’ve worked from home. You could say I work remotely, as home now for my wife, Catherine, and I, is Dream Time, our 38-foot Cabo Rico. For years I dreamed about sailing around the world, living a life of freedom, discovery and adventure, far away from the rushed routine of our existence in New York. I wanted to live in the moment, to embrace the unexpected, and to seek new experiences in the warm, tropical, uncluttered corners of the world. But how do you make that a reality when you’re supposed to be building a career and making a living?... [read more] |
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North Minerva [PDF] NOVEMBER 2011 Blue Water Sailing Magazine Preview: One of the luxuries of cruising is the freedom to visit and explore the remote and hidden corners of our world. Places that, due to location or topography, are inaccessible and unknown to all but a lucky few. North Minerva, a mere speck on the charts and one which doesn’t even register on radar, is such a place. Where there is no land beneath your feet or on the horizon. No trees to provide shade, and no houses in which to seek shelter, just an endless and unbroken expanse of sea and sky. And yet each year a handful of migratory cruisers are fortunate enough to visit this little sanctuary, and experience what is perhaps one of the most isolated and remote tropical anchorages in the world... [read more] |
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The Most Secluded Anchorage on Earth? [PDF] SEPTEMBER 2011 Yachting Monthly Magazine Preview: Dream Time is ready for her next passage, a journey of 1,200 nautical miles, one that will carry us out of the warm tropical South Pacific waters that we’ve become so familiar and comfortable with, and down to New Zealand, latitude 35° south, where winter gales are still blowing across the islands in regular six day intervals... [read more] |
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Counting the Days [PDF] JUNE 2011 Cruising World Magazine Preview: One thousand days ago my wife Catherine and I began our world circumnavigation on Dream Time, our 1981 Cabo Rico. It sounds rather exciting, but in reality our departure from land life in 2007 was rather anticlimactic. You see we didn't launch into the voyage from New York with an adventurous offshore passage, sailing boldly over the horizon, bound for distant and exotic shores. Instead we opted for a gentler introduction to our adventure and sailed for only two hours just around the corner to Oyster Bay, one of our favorite anchorages in the Long Island Sound - and we stayed there for a week and a half... [read more] |
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Close Encounter [PDF] MARCH 2011 Cruising World Magazine Preview: It was a little over ten years ago when my wife Catherine and I spotted our first manta ray, and although it was housed in a giant aquarium at Paradise Island, the Bahamas, my first encounter with the largest of the ray family was nothing short of awe-inspiring. And for over a year, since we entered the South Pacific, we've searched for the opportunity to swim with them, to have a close encounter with the illusive Devil Ray, a name derived from their distinct horn-shaped cephalic lobes. Unfortunately, however, from the Tuamotus to Tonga, the manta rays have continued to elude us, that was until we sailed to Fiji... [read more] |
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Diagnosis Osmosis [PDF] NOVEMBER 2010 Boating New Zealand Magazine Preview: World cruising on a small sailboat is full of surprises. Three years ago, my wife Catherine and I set off on a 10-year world circumnavigation on our yacht Dream Time, and since we left our land lives behind, we’ve certainly experienced our fair share of the unexpected. Ironically, it’s the unknown, the unpredictable that we now look forward to the most – finding an idyllic South Pacific anchorage not marked on the charts, making friends in a new country, an impromptu party with fellow cruisers, or just the thrill of not knowing what we’ll be doing, or what we’ll discover one moment to the next. It’s exhilarating, and we love it... [read more] |
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Running the Pass [PDF] SEPTEMBER 2010 Cruising World Magazine Preview: With a cold front fast approaching, forecast to deliver strong winds and 20 foot seas to the area, my wife Catherine and I had limited options; steer Dream Time, our 1981 Cabo Rico, down one of the evacuation routes we had plotted on our charts, navigating us away from the labyrinth of coral atolls in French Polynesia and out into open seas where we would heave-to and weather the storm. Or enter the Arikitamiro Pass into Makemo atoll, through an entrance that, because of the building and shifting northwesterly wind - the first signs of the approaching front, was blocked by a barricade of breaking seas... [read more] |
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The Cost of Freedom [PDF] JULY 2010 Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine
Preview: I've got five toes on each foot so why is it always, and I'm not exaggerating here, ALWAYS the little fella on the end that gets the abuse. Just this morning I clipped him on a solid stainless steel deck cleat, mid-stride, during a full leg swing. Not wanting to disturb Catherine who was fast asleep down below, I was forced to weather the excruciating pain in complete silence - bowed over at the waist, clutching the lifelines with both hands, doing a little one-legged hop and enthusiastically mouthing profanities through clenched teeth... [read more] |
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Our Longest Passage [PDF] JULY 2010 Yachting Monthly Preview: There's a steady rotation of cruising boats coming and going from our anchorage in San Cristobal. Boats arriving from the east replace those departing for the west - it's like a long distance nautical relay, and it's our turn to go. Our 20-day visa for the Galapagos has come to an end, so today, with our passports stamped and our zarpe (cruising papers) in order, we'll begin the longest journey most cruisers will ever encounter when circumnavigating the globe, over 3,000 miles of ocean. The sheer magnitude of what lays ahead is sobering - thousands upon thousands of miles of open ocean, a month at sea, no safe harbors to seek refuge in, no coastguard to offer assistance, and no turning back.. [read more] |
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Panasonic Tough Stories [website] FEBRUARY 2010 Story: Toughbook Mobile Computers on a Boat Preview: Panasonic was more than willing to equip Neville and Catherine Hockley with two Panasonic Toughbook laptop computers for their trip around the world on their 41-foot cutter-rig sloop, Dream Time. Neville's design company in New York City, i&D Media Group, doesn't miss him - he keeps a virtual office using satellite communications and the Toughbook-30 and the Toughbook Y5. "We're lucky to have clients with an adventurous spirit that believe that as long as you can do the job, it doesn't matter where you are." .. [visit web page] |
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Ghana Fundraising Calendar [website] JANUARY 2010 Photographic contribution [visit web page] |
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ABCNews.com [website] MARCH 2009 Story: Sailing Around The World [visit web page] |
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Good Morning America NOW Interview [website / video] FEBRUARY 2009 Dream On, Dreamers - Television Interview with Heidi Jones [view interview] |
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Trapped in a Tropical Storm [PDF] JANUARY 2009 Yachting Monthly Preview: The saying goes, “there’s a first time for everything”, and on June 1st 2008, the first day of hurricane season, whilst being slammed by Arthur, the first tropical storm of the season, on precisely the day that marked the completion of our first year cruising, I couldn’t help but wonder, as we watched thick lightening bolts relentlessly strike the water and island around us, what other new experiences the night had in store for us. .. [read more] |
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Panasonic Toughbook Print Ad [PDF] JUNE 2008 Northwest Airlines, Continental, Spirit & American Way Inflight Magaines [view print ad] |
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Decked Out in New Teak [PDF] JUNE 2008 Cruising World Magazine Preview: My wife Catherine and I bought Dream Time, a 1981 Cabo Rico in the spring of 2000 with world cruising on our minds. The 38-footer has a full keel, heavy construction, a solid reputation, and beautiful classic lines, so we knew immediately that she was right for our adventure. In order to prepare Dream Time for our circumnavigation, we replaced, rebuild, and installed practically every piece of equipment and hardware on the boat. The biggest , most complex, and ultimately the most satisfying project was the deck restoration... [read more] |
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The Reporter Newspaper [PDF] JUNE 2008 Belize Newspaper Article - by Adolph Lucas Jr. [read more] |
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Designs On The Sea [PDF] JULY 2007 Via Inmarsat Magazine Preview: Neville Hockley has a passion for the sea. In 1994, he spent six months sailing from Australia to Italy on a Lidguard sloop named Aphrodite, and subsequently chronicled his experience in a book named Dream Time. But Neville has another passion too. At the end of 1997, the British-born, 37-year old designer founded a graphic design company in New York. The company, i&D Media Group, turns over $3m a year, producing branding campaigns, corporate identity designs, advertising packages, websties and video animations for a raft of blue-chip clients, including Panasonic, Cayman Airways and Discovery Networks... [read more] |
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This is My Office [PDF] |
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Dream Time FIRST PUBLISHED 2002 Originally published in 2002 by Vanguard Press, Dream Time, now in its second printing, chronicles Neville's first offshore sailing adventure from Australia to Italy. Experience the highs and lows as the most unlikely crew navigate halfway around the world with no ocean crossing experience and only a handful of charts. [Buy Dream Time on Amazon.com] |
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