Lion New Zealand skipper Alistair Moore and Sarah-Jane Blake, who has been crewing on board her father's old boat, are engaged.
Sarah-Jane is the daughter of Sir Peter Blake, the skipper who took Lion New Zealand to a Sydney to Hobart Race win in 1984 and second place in the Whitbread Race the following year.

Alistair and Sarah-Jane arrive at the marina on Monday.

Alistair proposed in the yacht's tender off White Island on Thursday night, during a stopover on Lion New Zealand's voyage from Gisborne to Tauranga.
Today Sarah-Jane was sporting a copper washer on her finger.
'He lost the ring in Napier,” says Sarah-Jane. 'I knew he was going to ask me sometime.”

Alistair's parents Glenda and Roger Moore.

Sarah helped Alistair scour the boat for the missing ring, and could hear Alistair sanding the copper ring into shape during the night watches while making the voyage up the coast.
Unable to land on White Island, the couple took a small tour in the tender, where Sarah accepted Alistair's proposal.

Sarah sailing on Sunday.

'We had some wine when we got back to the boat,” says Sarah.
'We haven't told any of our friends or family. We need a chance to tell them, we are a bit worried about that.
'Mum knows, she was pretty happy.”
Alistair's parents Roger and Glenda arrived at Tauranga today, Monday, with some additional supplies, to learn the news at the Sulphur Point Marina. Lion New Zealand is expected to leave for Auckland on Monday, stopping overnight off the Coromandel.
'I've known him since I was 16,” says Sarah.

Lion NZ cruise the Tauranga harbour on Sunday.

'We've been friends for a long time. He was in England last year visiting me and my ex-boyfriend in our flats. I came to New Zealand in May.
Alistair asked her to crew on the Auckland-Noumea race.
'I fell in love with him there.
'As I had proved myself as a member of the crew I was asked to come and do the Sydney Hobart. I really support what the Lion Maritime Development Trust is doing.”