A different view of ocean voyaging

[Stingo]

I wonder if she will be selling the film rights sometime soon?

Or starting a bikini-clad YouTube channel with a Patroen begging link?

 

[Adios]

She's got an estimated net worth of £5m so I don't think she's going to be too bothered about book sales. Maybe she just wants to tell her story.

I wonder if she will be selling the film rights sometime soon?

Not that enough is ever enough for your average millionaire

 

[Bouba]

Haha well blow me down. In 2016 before she's realised the best dishonest flex to sell her book (her Unique Selling Point) was how miserable she was and what a hinderance it was, this was her story

A life on the waves in the South Seas

"This week, his daughter Suzanne Heywood returned to Fiji to retrace the steps of their beloved Wavewalker after it was left behind in Lautoka more than 20 years ago.

MRS Heywood said her most memorable times as a voyager included days she spent in Fiji.

“We spent time in the Pacific with my parents sailing on Wavewalker while I educated myself through a correspondence program.

“Eventually I did well enough at that to get a place at Oxford University to study zoology, which was inspired by all the whales and dolphins I had seen in Fiji and the other Pacific Islands, and I then did a PhD in that field at Cambridge University.”

Growing on board a schooner might have been considered unconventional but for Mrs Heywood and her brother, it was a way of interacting with people from different communities and being exposed to a world of cultures.

This includes her time in Fiji.

“We visited many of the remote islands. We also spent time watching whales and dolphins and playing with Fijian children.

“At one stage, I briefly attended a Fijian school on Vatoa Island. I loved learning about different cultures when I was growing up and particularly loved the Fijian culture where things are shared within the village in a very open way.

“The Fijian people were always incredibly welcoming to me and my family when we were sailing in the islands.”

[challenges that shape a strong character described]

After this, the family did not continue their sailing adventures but Mrs Heywood is not deterred.

Now, she is nursing dreams of returning to sail the seas alongside her family. And she is one step closer to achieving this after she gained her yacht master qualifications recently.

A consultant at present, she is now in the process of penning down her experiences on board Wavewalker. This is similar to her father Gordon, who has written a few books about his days as a voyager.

Mrs Heywood says she will focus her novel on her experience of growing up as a child on Wavewalker.

“The book will focus on how we survived being shipwrecked, the wonderful places like Fiji that we visited and how I managed to then educate myself to go to university. Much of the story is set in Fiji as it is the place that we sailed to possibly most of all the Pacific Islands.”

While in the country, Mrs Heywood is also hoping to meet people who will have information about Wavewalker.

“I hope that I can find someone who can tell me what happened to Wavewalker. I really hope that I have the chance to see her again as I was never able to say goodbye after she was my home for so long.


A full of BS civil servant, what a surprise.

So...it was the Guardian editors !.....I always said they were rogues

 

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So...it was the Guardian editors !.....I always said they were rogues

not quite, from the Guardian article "What I found, when I mustered enough courage to look back, was that many parts of my childhood were worse than I’d been willing to admit."

We're supposed to believe she somehow went from rose tinted view that lasted untainted to at least 2016, to revelation of a traumatic childhood she'd been in denial of, that came out with the process of writing the book. Nothing whatsoever to do with the publisher saying "argh not another privileged kid jaunting around the world before going to Cambridge university for free before marrying her way up the civil service. Been done to death. We need something regular people can identify with. Say it was even more miserable then their life in a semi."

 

[Bouba]

not quite, from the Guardian article "What I found, when I mustered enough courage to look back, was that many parts of my childhood were worse than I’d been willing to admit."

We're supposed to believe she somehow went from rose tinted view that lasted untainted to at least 2016, to revelation of a traumatic childhood she'd been in denial of, that came out with the process of writing the book. Nothing whatsoever to do with the publisher saying "argh not another privileged kid jaunting around the world before going to Cambridge university for free before marrying her way up the civil service. Been done to death. We need something regular people can identify with. Say it was even more miserable then their life in a semi."

Sounds like false memory syndrome from therapy…she did say that she had a serious head injury .
I think her mum and dad suffered from that most heinous crime…they weren’t modern parents

 

[capnsensible]

not quite, from the Guardian article "What I found, when I mustered enough courage to look back, was that many parts of my childhood were worse than I’d been willing to admit."

We're supposed to believe she somehow went from rose tinted view that lasted untainted to at least 2016, to revelation of a traumatic childhood she'd been in denial of, that came out with the process of writing the book. Nothing whatsoever to do with the publisher saying "argh not another privileged kid jaunting around the world before going to Cambridge university for free before marrying her way up the civil service. Been done to death. We need something regular people can identify with. Say it was even more miserable then their life in a semi."

Don't read it.........think of your heart.

 

[Adios]

Sounds like false memory syndrome from therapy…she did say that she had a serious head injury .
I think her mum and dad suffered from that most heinous crime…they weren’t modern parents

I wonder if they're still alive to see this sudden change. All those happy Christmases since, reminiscing about the adventures they had. This year just a card saying "you bastards!!"

 

[DFL1010]

Haha well blow me down. In 2016 before she's realised the best dishonest flex to sell her book (her Unique Selling Point) was how miserable she was and what a hinderance it was, this was her story

A life on the waves in the South Seas
[snip]

A full of BS civil servant, what a surprise.

So let me get this straight - if she focuses on the negatives, she's whining. If she reflects on the positives, she's dishonest.

 

[GHA]

every time youtube gets mentioned victorian dad gets all hot under the collar cos people don´t get below and put on lots of clothes they never normally wear as soon as the go pro comes out

True what they say about Brits & how nervous the older male generation get regarding and kind of sexuality

 

[Adios]

Here's Suzanne Heywood again with a massive free advert for her bizarre £20 book WAVEWALKER: BREAKING FREE. Its really who you know. My 10-year family trip from hell

But lets not forget the real story of a amazing childhood as told by her just a few years before she wanted a book deal and film rights A life on the waves in the South Seas

The pictures don't lie either. Must have been annoying for the publishers that they couldn't find a single photo of her looking miserable and hard done by.

 

[doug748]

Here's Suzanne Heywood again with a massive free advert for her bizarre £20 book WAVEWALKER: BREAKING FREE. Its really who you know. My 10-year family trip from hell

But lets not forget the real story of a amazing childhood as told by her just a few years before she wanted a book deal and film rights A life on the waves in the South Seas

The pictures don't lie either. Must have been annoying for the publishers that they couldn't find a single photo of her looking miserable and hard done by.

I believe entertainers call it: working the room. Tailoring her material to best effect, shabby business.

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[Barnacle Bill]

Rule one of any sailing trip: everyone's got to want to be there.

 

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Rule one of any sailing trip: everyone's got to want to be there.

rule one of parenting: the child doesn't always get to decide what they do

Though admittedly this stretches it. Maybe the dad was just tunnel vision with no regard for anyone else. Maybe he thought if his kids get out of school they will be more likely to do something interesting with their lives. She proved that was right didn't she and as the link above shows until recently she felt the trip had broadened her horizons, it didn't even put her off boats (or ocean voyaging with her family) which is the risk parents run if they push it too hard.

Worth a read if you haven't A life on the waves in the South Seas

 

[01_Anna]

There is a whole long thread on Sailing Anarchy Forums about that, including a contribution from her brother, as well as a link to an article from Fiji Times, published several years ago, where she presents a completely different point of view.
Well worth a read, I think.
Suzanne Heywood and her Epically Misguided 70's Cruising Parents

 

[Bouba]

It’s very easy to go to therapy and only remember the bad things your parents did

 

[Koeketiene]

It’s very easy to go to therapy and only remember the bad things your parents did

Do you know my daughter?

 

[Adios]

There is a whole long thread on Sailing Anarchy Forums about that, including a contribution from her brother, as well as a link to an article from Fiji Times, published several years ago, where she presents a completely different point of view.
Well worth a read, I think.
Suzanne Heywood and her Epically Misguided 70's Cruising Parents

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Seems on the nose apart from not taking into account the input of the editors and/or the desire to see a film made hence human interest / dramatisation of a privileged jaunt around the world, sort of books which have been written continually since private yacht voyaging began