Boating New Zealand

Sometimes it’s the small details that make the biggest difference, especially when it comes to boating. At Waiheke Marina, those thoughtful touches are designed to make boating simpler, more comfortable and surprisingly cost-effective. Provisioning your boat couldn’t be easier. The island offers full supermarket facilities, and many boat owners take advantage of online grocer...

There is something about a Kauri boat that no fibreglass hull can replicate. The warmth of the timber, the weight of the history, the knowledge that the material itself was grown over centuries before it was ever shaped into a vessel. New Zealand’s native timbers, Kauri above all, produced some of the finest small-ship hulls […]

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A new nationwide fishing competition is putting modern technology in the hands of Kiwi anglers, with a format built around catch and release rather than the traditional weigh-in. The SnapCatch Classic, powered by the SnapCatch app, is open for registration now and opened on 30 March, running through to 10 May, wrapping up just ahead […]

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For the first time in five years, the Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship heads into its 59th edition without a clear favourite, and the competition for invitations has never been fiercer. After a period of dominance by Jeffrey Petersen (USA) and Cole Tapper (AUS), who each won the event twice, and Jordan Stevenson […]

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It wasn’t a straightforward path to the podium. Three days of shifting breeze, a Sunday postponement, a beach clean for microplastics, and a dolphin sighting two nautical miles offshore, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, Lauchy Wills and Will Handley quietly went about winning a national championship. The HSC/MBSC pair claimed the […]

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