Their sailboat came into their hands while they were rowing around the island one day, and came across an old, abandoned vessel, "paint bubbling and so water logged it looked like concrete, no one would touch it." After a look around the deck, they discovered that the sailboat was in fact a beautiful hand built sailboat from the 1970s. The couple contacted the owner and made him an offer to his otherwise discarded and forgotten about boat.

"Everything was stiffened, stuck, and not working, I had to figure out how to make it run again." Not knowing much about boat building, but armed with years of experience as a professional furniture maker, Benedict, again, learnt with his hands. Tweaking, experimenting and listening to the boat, he has brought it back to life over the past two years. Inside, the couple have each carved out a space to create, Hannah with her clay and painting corner, paint pots stored underneath the wood where her feet rest, and Benedict a swivel desk in their corner bedroom, fully equipped with a wall mounted lamp and jewellers tools all powered by solar energy. They decided to paint their sailboat, what they describe as "seedpod green", a bright and earthy green that hums on the eye, but does not look out of place floating like a queen on the blue, blue waters of Waiheke Island. Hannah painted two eyes at the tip of the boat, guiding them through the sometimes rough water around Aotearoa, alongside its name Honeymoon.