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The Tasman Bay Cruising Club nominated members Tom and Vicky Jackson for this Yachting New Zealand Cruising Award telling how the long-time cruisers involved their fellow club members in their latest journey which saw them voyage from 41 Degrees South to 61 Degrees North, then cruise amongst the waters of the Alaskan coast.
Tom and Vicky Jackson have been living aboard their S&S designed yacht SUNSTONE since 1981, and left England in 1997 to start cruising. Since then SUNSTONE, with her distinctive highly varnished wooden hull, has completed two circumnavigations and clocked up around 200,000 sea miles.
Possibly what makes the Jacksons’ recent Alaskan jaunt slightly different from previous voyages, is that Tom and Vicky have taken all the members of the Tasman Bay Cruising Club along with them – by sending back full and detailed accounts of the journey and of their adventures ashore. The written word has been backed up superbly by the colourful and beautifully presented images of all aspects of this cruise: consequently almost every fortnight the club newsletter has featured yet more news and updates from this travelling duo.
Veronika Westerson, Club Manager at Tasman Bay Cruising Club writes; “The voyage to the cruising area is remarkable in itself, the chosen area in which to cruise is outstanding, challenging, fascinating and unusual – but the quiet and unassuming manner in which Tom and Vicky do all of this is praiseworthy indeed. To include those armchair cruisers back home in their latest adventure is a very great kindness.”
“Tom and Vicky Jackson have done it so well and fully deserve all the laudatory recognition that we can bestow upon them.”
