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A Conversation Between a French F111 Fighter Jet Pilot, a Kiwi Yacht Skipper and Everything in Between.

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Kevin Hester — 10 Comments

In the early 1990’s I travelled from my then home in Germany to Gibraltar to help an old friend out with a computer installation he was working on.A co-worker said to me “Greg tells me you’re a sailor. There’s lots…

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Shark Attack at Minerva Reef

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Kevin Hester — 10 Comments

The story begins at the breakwater alongside the Water Front Café in Port Villa harbour, Vanuatu in September 1999. I was in Vanuatu to deliver a Roberts 65’ back to New Zealand. Brian Loundes, the owner of Relember (not a…

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Kevin Hester

Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water.  I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.

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