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Dream Time - 14 years at sea
2023
Blurb Publications
A large format, 12" x 12", 110 page layflat photo journal that shares some of the most memorable and unique experiences from Dream Time's fourteen year voyage. (Please note: no profits have been added to the list price, the cost is for Blurb's production only - you're welcome!) [view / buy on Blurb]
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New York Moment [PDF]
September 2021
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
When my wife, Catherine, and I lived in New York over fourteen years ago, we never anchored Dream Time by the Statue of Liberty - not once. We never even considered it. It's not that we didn't have the skills, or that the twenty-five nautical mile trip from the Long Island Sound down to New York Harbor is particularly challenging, it just never really occurred to us that we could... [read more]
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Sandy Souvenirs [PDF]
January / February 2021
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
It took 13 years to prepare this project, which began on Block Island in summer 2007 and finished this year in the US Virgin Islands. I'm not entirely certain where the inspiration to collect sand came from, but once it began, it turned into a quest that continued around the world—for 4,697 days and across all four hemispheres... [read more]
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Clean Across The Atlantic [PDF]
November / December 2020
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
This year we sailed from the Mediterranean to the Canary Islands, down the West African coast to Cabo Verde, then right across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean—over 4,000 nautical miles, and while underway, not once did we run our engine or generator for power or propulsion. For a whole month of sailing, we were driven entirely by the wind, sun and sea... [read more]
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A Balearic Blow [PDF]
November / December 2020
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
"If we end up on the rocks, we stay on the boat. OK?" The storm arrived so suddenly, and was so fierce and unexpected, it took not only our anchorage by complete surprise, but much of southern Spain, and later, after sweeping through the region, would have local news stations claiming it to be "a storm unlike any in living memory." [read more]
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Alone in Santorini [PDF]
August / September 2020
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
Santorini is probably the most photographed island in all of Greece, and it is easy to see why. The ancient and still active volcano that forms the archipelago rises dramatically from deep sapphire seas with impressive rock and ash sandwiched together in great horizontal bands of black, gray and red... [read more]
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Cover Image [PDF]
May/June 2020
Ocean Navigator Magazine
Caption:
Plenty of room. Dream Time, a 1981 Cabo Rico, anchored within a remote, uninhabited lagoon, in the middle of the South Pacific. [view cover]
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Opa! [PDF]
April 2020
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
We're anchored in the Greek island of Symi, stern tied to the stone quay in the picturesque pastel-colored village of Yialos - a town so absolutely idyllic and harmoniously composed, you would think it the work of Athena. It is a Med mooring experience at its finest, one where you step from the transom of your boat right into a Mediterranean postcard... [read more]
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Sock [PDF]
Special 2020 Annual Issue
Ocean Voyager Magazine
Preview:
Sleep deprivation is a funny thing. Just three nights into our Atlantic crossing, early days for a three-week passage, our minds and bodies were still adjusting to the challenges of a 24/7 watch routine, only a few hours of sleep a night and the constant movement of Dream Time, our 38-foot Cabo Rico, running wing-to-wing on the high seas after two weeks of rest in Cape Verde... [read more]
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Ship or Sail? [PDF]
February 2020
Ocean Navigator Magazine
Preview:
After nine years of drifting peacefully between friendly South Pacific isles, enjoying warm receptions along safe shorelines, and besides the occasional outburst from Mother Nature, quiet, uneventful passages, we've crossed the equator and returned to the northern hemisphere to face one of our toughest cruising decisions in forty thousand nautical miles of world voyaging... [read more]
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Cruising Stories [PDF]
January 2020
Yachting Monthly Magazine
Preview:
Since leaving New York, my wife Catherine and I had experienced, for the most part, carefree sailing as we made our way into the Pacific Ocean, through the islands and on to New Zealand and then Australia before cruising to Southeast Asia....
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Anchored Among Giants [PDF]
August / September 2019
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
After years of anchoring in South Pacific atolls - where tropical islands of sand and coral lie just a few feet above shimmering seas, and our tallest companions were rustling coconut palms - we've entered a new region, one of such imposing scale and grandeur, it feels like we've wandered into the mythical world of King Kong... [read more]
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Twenty-Three Years To Lady Musgrave [PDF]
January 2019
Cruising Helmsman Magazine
Preview:
In 1994, while backpacking around Australia and eager for adventure, I signed up as crew on Aphrodite, a handsome 44 cutter rig from Melbourne embarking on an intrepid five month voyage to Italy. At the time I had no idea that the journey would not only introduce me to the enchanting world of cruising, but would influence the course of my life for decades to come... [read more]
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In The Wake of the Ma'ohi [PDF]
November / December 2018
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
About 6,000 years ago - when the Pacific Ocean was unexplored and its tiny islands, scattered across a vast area of unimaginable size, lay quiet and uninhabited - a pioneering people from southeast Asia pushed their double-hulled canoes from familiar shores and sailed deep into the unknown... [read more]
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Ocean Navigator Cover Photo [PDF]
May / June 2018 Issue
Ocean Navigator Magazine
Caption:
Catherine Hockley stands bow watch as Dream Time, a 1981 Cabo Rico, enters an atoll in the Tuamotus.
[view cover]
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Cruising World 2018 Calendar
2018 Calendar
Cruising World Magazine
Dream Time, anchored inside the western lagoon of Moorea in French Polynesia, is Cruising World's featured photo for July 2018
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Once in a Lifetime! [PDF]
January / February 2018
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
Crossing the South Pacific on a small sailboat is really quite an accomplishment, and for many cruisers, Australia represents the final destination of this epic voyage. For those lucky enough to reach Sydney Harbour in time for New Year's Eve, watching the city's fireworks - considered to be one of the most impressive displays in the world - provides the perfect occasion to celebrate... [read more]
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Big Fish! [PDF]
November / December 2017
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
The whale shark is certainly not a whale, nor is it really much of a shark, at least not in the snarly predatory kind often imagined with row upon row of serrated teeth. It's not particularly fast either, and swaggers around the ocean at much the same casual pace of a sea turtle. And because it never has to surface for air, and regularly swims to depths of over 3,000 feet, its breeding habits and migration patterns remain mostly a wonderful mystery... [read more]
PHOTO CREDIT: Prue Wheeler - 'SeaLife Differently' Imagery |
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Dream Time With The Dolphins [PDF]
August / September 2017
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
We were cruising north along the coast of Australia, and rarely have we experienced seas this peaceful - the surface all silky, heavy and smooth, disturbed only by delicate pattern of ripples, the very beginning of waves born from a gentle gust. And never before have we sailed with dolphins surfing within a perfect reflection of Dream Time, two very different world separated only by a bubbling white wake... [read more]
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Nautical Drifters [PDF]
May / June 2017
Ocean Navigator Magazine
Preview:
Since my wife, Catherine, and I began our epic world voyage on Dream Time, a 1981 Cabo Rico, we've averaged just nine nautical miles a day. A sea cucumber probably covers more distance than that. In fact, if a piece of driftwood was tossed into the Long Island Sound the same day we set off from Brewers Marina in Glen Cove, Long Island, and found the ocean currents, it would have traveled further than we have by now... [read more]
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The South Pacific's Biggest Secret? [PDF]
May 2017
Cruising World Magazine
Caption:
Almost everyone has heard of the legendary Tahiti and Bora Bora in Polynesia. Armchair sailors could find Fiji and Tonga in the South Pacific. New Zealand, well, that’s easy. But ask most people to pin New Caledonia on the globe and they wouldn’t know in which hemisphere to begin looking. Shortly after my wife, Catherine, and I arrived in the country, we telephoned our bank to reactivate an ATM card, and when hearing our location, the banking specialist sighed wistfully and shared, “Wow, New Caledonia, I’ve always wanted to go to Africa... [read more]
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Exposed in the Tropics [PDF]
January 2017
Blue Water Sailing
Caption:
We admire intrepid cruisers, captains and crew intent on sailing high latitudes, enduring chilly challenges around distant windswept capes. But my wife, Catherine, and I have little interest in exploring regions that require anything more than board shorts and bikinis. Shimmering lagoons, remote coral atolls, uninhabited sandy isles—we seek the tropics, the warm, quiet, sundrenched corners of our planet... [read more]
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Ocean Voyager Cover Photo [PDF]
Special 2017 Annual Issue
Ocean Voyager Magazine
Caption:
Cruising friends Nomad and Namaste anchored in Passe Tumakohua, South Pacific, in one of the most sublime atolls in the world. [view cover]
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Hanging on in Palmerston Atoll [PDF]
November / December 2016
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
We were clinging to the side of an ancient volcano, hanging on to the very edge of a mountain that fell away under our keel to a seabed that rested over 13,000 feet below. Just off our bow lay a ring of reef and a handful of tiny islands grasping at the surface. To our stern was the deep, unrestrained South Pacific Ocean... [read more]
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Voyagers' App Favorites [PDF]
July / August 2016
Ocean Navigator Magazine
Caption:
We use iNavX daily on Dream Time for route planning and for active navigation. We’ve also connected our Garmin chartplotter and B&G network to a multi-plexor... [read more]
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Balance on a Floating Design Studio [PDF]
February 2016
Graphic Design USA
Caption:
Talk about the age-old and elusive quest for work-life balance! In 2007, Neville Hockley and his wife Catherine sailed away from New York to circumnavigate the globe on Dream Time, their 38 foot sailboat... [read more]
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Ocean Voyager Cover Photo [PDF]
Special 2015 Annual Issue
Ocean Voyager Magazine
Caption:
Dream Time crosses the South Pacific for the third time, sailing south from Pago Pago, American Samoa, to New Zealand via Tonga. [view cover]
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A Boat Ramp to Paradise [PDF]
September 2014
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
In the middle of the South Pacific, scattered over half a million square nautical miles of open ocean, lies a remote chain of hidden reefs and shallow atolls in a hazardous region avoided by early mariners. Yet today, ironically, a small but growing fleet of adventurous cruisers visit this area each year to seek comfort and refuge... [read more]
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American Samoa [PDF]
June 2014
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
There's something very special about American Samoa, and if you can stay in the anchorage just long enough to get past first impressions, you may find it surprisingly intoxicating. Like some American cruisers who are seduced by its convenience and distinctive charm, you may very well decide to stay for years. If you're expecting an idyllic tropical anchorage, you haven't done your homework, a sublime anchorage this is not.. [read more]
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My Samoan Souvenir [PDF]
May 2014
Blue Water Sailing Magazine
Preview:
T-shirts, trinkets and carvings from the countries you visit make great souvenirs. But as my wife, Catherine, and I near the end of an epic three year, nine thousand nautical mile circuit of the southwest Pacific, I sought a more permanent memento to mark our accomplishment... [read more]
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Voyaging Skills - Interview & Cover Photo [PDF]
Special 2014 Annual Issue
Ocean Voyager Magazine
Preview:
Neville and Catherine Hockley voyage aboard their Cabo Rico 41 Dream Time. They departed the U.S. East Coast in 2007 and have sailed through the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and across the South Pacific to New Zealand.... [read more]
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Where The Wild Rays Roam [PDF]
March 2014
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
In the South Pacific there's a little patch of powdery white sand on the northern side of Moorea, Tahiti's sister island, just inside Passe Taotoi. It's an idyllic spot, where the coral reef protects you from the ocean swell, and the towering volcanic spires soften the trade winds. But what makes this little patch of sand special, which lies less than five feet of the clearest water you can possibly imagine... [read more] |
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Raimiti [PDF] - 2015 Boating Writers International (BWI) winner
January 2014
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
Sometimes, rarely, when the tradewinds cease to blow, when there's not a whisper of wind and when the air is still. When the sky is a deep cobalt above softening to a light powder blue below, and when the water in the lagoon seems to hover, suspended without a ripple or a wave to disturb its surface. When all perception of depth and space are distorted, when sea and sky blur gently and perfectly together, the horizon completely disappears... [read more] |
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Tahiti et ses Iles
2014 Calendar
With Dream Time on the cover (and the August spread) anchored with friends Namaste, Estrellita and Nomad in our favorite anchorage in the world - South Fakarava, this official 2014 calendar for Tahiti and her surrounding islands was discovered by friends whilst shopping in Carrefour in French Polynesia. |
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Computers Aboard by Jen Brett [PDF]
November 2013
Cruising World Magazine
Preview of Dream Time's contribution:
Our primary system on the boat is a Toughbook 30 which is Panasonic's most durable laptop. It's endured hurricanes, gales, rain squalls and long, humid tropical summers. It's worked every day for 23,000 nautical miles in 17 countries. It's posted over five years of blogs in every hemisphere, delivered thousands of weather GRIBs and has kept us connected with business, friends and family when it matters... [read more] |
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Under a Spell in Paradise [PDF]
November 2013
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
Complacency is one of the most hazardous aspects of cruising. You can't see it, you can't predict it, and it follows you around wherever you go, whether you're on a rough passage, becalmed, motoring, sailing or anchored in an idyllic lagoon. It is a constant threat... [read more] |
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Creative Nut [PDF]
October 2012
Blue Water Sailing Magazine
Preview:
‘What exactly do you do all day?’ - It’s a fair question and one that my wife, Catherine, and I are asked from time to time
by family and friends back home. And occasionally by random strangers who, after seeing Dream Time, our 38’ Cabo Rico, anchored in the same spot for weeks, sometimes months on end, want to know precisely how we occupy ourselves. After-all we don’t work, at least not in the traditional sense, and as we’re free from most of the distractions and obligations of life on terra-firma, some wonder what we do with all of our free time... [read more] |
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Stalking Fresh Experiences [PDF]
August 2012
Cruising World Magazine
Preview:
Most of the things that seem routine aboard Dream Time, the 38-foot Cabo Rico that my wife, Catherine, and I have
cruised aboard for five years, appear wonderfully bizarre to someone who’s experiencing them for the very first time...
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The Hard Way to Paradise [PDF]
July 2012
Yachting Monthly Magazine
Preview:
With the South Pacific cyclone season over, and the Tasman Sea delivering an early winter gale to the area, Opua’s transient dock lays empty. The vast majority of cruisers have long since left the Bay of Islands, New Zealand’s most northerly port of departure, and are now relaxing in the warm tropical anchorages to the north... [read more] |
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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.... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [read more] |
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Panasonic Tough Stories
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." .. |
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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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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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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]
March 2007
Fortune Small Business Magazine
Preview:
The owner of a graphic design company prepares to run his New York City - based firm from a sailboat while circumnavigating the globe. For most of his career, Neville Hockley has faced the tech headaches that confront the
owner of any small design firm: finding time to read the hundreds of emails he received each day and waiting for high-res graphics to upload. But in a few months he'll face a new set of challenges, such as preparing his workstation for an oncoming nor'easter or searching for a satellite signal off the Caymans... [read more] |
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Dream Time
Published by Vanguard Press
Originally published in 2002 by Vanguard Press, Dream Time 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. |
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