Kiwi mum’s adventure FROM AMERICA’S CUP TO AFRICA’S HERO!
Decked out in full wet-weather gear, her laptop wrapped in a rubbish bag on her lap, Auckland mum Emma Outteridge paddled in a dinghy across a canal near Buenos Aires, desperately hoping for an internet signal. The self-described “America’s Cup kid”, 38, needed to send off the final manuscript for her book, which she’d completed while living on a houseboat in Argentina with her Aussie husband Nathan, an Olympic gold medal-winning sailor.
“My dinghy was half-sinking because it was raining so hard and it’s definitely a scene that sticks with me,” laughs the author, a new memoir about how she built a bridge between the international sailing community and a rural African village.
