Annie Hill (born 1955) is a British sailor. She is best known as an author of books and articles about sailboat voyaging, living on a small amount of money, and sailing junk rigs.

Biography

Annie Hill was born in

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, England, United Kingdom, Europe. Hill has been voyaging and living aboard various sailing yachts since 1975. Her book ''Voyaging on a Small Income'' is a study in the economics of continual travel and self-sufficiency. Hill writes using distinct British vernacular and colloquialisms. Hill's first two books concerned voyaging aboard ''Badger'', a double-ended dory with a two-masted junk rig of the

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style, which was built by Annie and her first husband, Pete Hill. Badger was designed by Jay Benford for

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. Annie's analysis and comparison of the modern junk rig is at least partly responsible for the recent re-popularization of the junk rig. Hill continued her sailing aboard ''Iron Bark'', a steel gaff cutter. She and Pete divorced in 2001. She now travels with her second husband, Trevor Robertson. In 2004 and 2005, they spent the winter on ''Iron Bark'' frozen in a remote bay in Greenland. She is now based in New Zealand, where she lives aboard a fibreglass boat, ''Fantail'', which she converted to a junk rig in 2011.
In 2021 she launched her new , whole junk-style plywood boat ''FanShi''. Hill has covered more than under sail.

Awards

In March 2010, Hill and Trevor received one of the most prestigious awards in the sailing world, the

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of the

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Bibliography

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References

External links

* http://anniehill.blogspot.com/ * http://annie-hill.blogspot.com/
Flickr photo set
of Pete and Annie Hill's boat Badger. * http://silverdonaldcameron.com/columns/?tag=annie-hill {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Annie 1955 births Living people English sailors English non-fiction outdoors writers Maritime writers Blue Water Medal recipients English women non-fiction writers People from Liverpool