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An Exceptional Circle Of Friends… our New Zealand Riviera Family.
WOW what a year it has been – The Riviera Showcase held simultaneously with the Auckland Boat Show was sensational! With two impressive Riviera displays, one located at the R Marine Flagship on water Sales Arena in Westhaven creating the perfect plat
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Southern Success For Sail Gp
SailGP is breath-taking to watch and whoever – or wherever – in New Zealand hosts the next event will be incredibly lucky. The ‘Super Sunday’ 2024 event at Lyttelton was a spectacular success: 11,000 people were hosted on the day at Naval Point while
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The Marina
Classifieds | Brokerage | Directory 36 Degrees Brokers Busfield Marine Brokers Caribbean Boats Elite Marine Eyachts Flagship Marine Motoryacht Centre Orakei Marine Sasga Yachts South Pacific Boat Sales The Marina Brokerage The Yacht Sales Co. ■
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Fishing Smarter With Lures
Perhaps most critically, the rapidly increasing price of fuel is encouraging many anglers to fish closer to home. Which isn’t necessarily bad. After all, near-shore waters around northern New Zealand host plenty of snapper, especially during the warm
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Electric Appeal
Not before time – on litres of fuel burned per 100km, boats powered by international combustion engines (ICE) can be some of the most inefficient fuel users on the planet; see chart below. However, as we will see, while EPV technology has made giant
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Vanilla dream
The forecast for our testing session was for light westerly winds with smooth seas, but on the day the conditions ended up gusting 35 knots from the southwest, kicking up a sharp chop, which for us was also a head sea – perfect conditions to explore
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Lithium Makes Sense
Whether you’re looking to upgrade your system or replace an existing system, Lithium offers higher density of energy with less footprint providing double the energy storage – ideal in today’s power-hungry boating environments. Victron Energy’s Smart
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Beat Them If You Can
Emirates Team New Zealand launched its new AC75 at Wynyard Point a couple of days before this issue went to press. Launched it and almost immediately sailed out on the Waitemata into the gathering dusk. The weekend saw further testing, which is remar
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SHRINE to SAILING
There’s a museum in Rhode Island that should never fall off the ‘radar’ of boating enthusiasts. It’s the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, dedicated to the legendary Nathanael ‘Nat’ Herreshoff, almost certainly the most brilliant sailing boat desi
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Editor John Eichelsheim editor@boatingnz.co.nz Regular contributors Ryan Archer, Roger Mills, Sarah Ell, Andrew Howard, Norman Holtzhausen, Harold Kidd, Tom Linskey, John Macfarlane, Lawrence Schäffler, Alex Stone, Matt Vance, Chris Woodhams, Art Dir
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Racing Years With Altair
Instead, they took a leisurely cruise to the Bay of Islands. Returning to Auckland they booked Janet in for a thorough overhaul at W.G. Lowe & Son’s yard at Beaumont Street to make a good start for the 1935 season. On January 19, 1935 Akarana ran its
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DIY Descaling
It’s well known that a boat with an inboard engine and a heat exchanger will need regular descaling. Any part of the engine that remains in constant contact with heated water will over time inevitably build up a layer of lime scale (calcium carbonate
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Some Examples Of Successful Epv Applications
Founded in 2014 in Denmark, GoBoats are self-drive electric open boats. They are built in Denmark using recycled plastic and driven by a German electric outboard motor. Licenced for eight people, the boats are speed-limited and create virtually no wa
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Boat Business
THE RIDE JUST GOT even better with the release of the new Haines Hunter Overlander Pursuit 725, Haines Hunter’s first amphibious craft (see BNZ’s review this issue, p22). The Overlander expands Haines Hunter’s flagship 725 range, combining Haines Hun
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Boat World
Harry Thurston and crew of Luke Cashmore, Sam Barnett, James Jennings, Thomas Olds, Brad Marsh, and Will Tiller, plus injured shore crew Jonny Bell showed their talent at the recent Harken Young 88 Nationals hosted by Bucklands Beach Yacht Club. The
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Castlepoint Billfish
A good forecast on January 21 looked like the perfect opportunity to get out on the water while Mike’s mother was visiting from Brisbane. Leaving the beach, Mike’s son Max took the helm while they rigged several small trolling lures, expecting kahawa
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What A winner!
What does it take to own a new Surtees 750 hard top? A lot of hard work and savings no doubt, or if you are lucky, you could win one! Surtees have been building and providing the boat show prize since 2016 and this year the Surtees/Yamaha boat prize
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Boat Business
Boat Business News Review: Surtees 750 Game Fisher Boat Show prize DIY Boating: Descaling an outboard’s cooling system Review: Swift Trawler 41 Sedan ■
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EXPLORING LAND & SEA
With the Overlander OP725, Haines Hunter has elevated wheelie boats to a whole new level by combining its premium Sport Pursuit 725 model with Kiwi company Anura’s world-leading S25 electric-over-hydraulic amphibious technology for boats. Based on Ha
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Tale Of A Tiger
It begins in Fiji, which, as we will see, has been a magnetic attraction to Hargraves for most of his life. In 1928, his father, Monk Hargraves, a Bank of New South Wales employee, was stationed in Levuka, Fiji, where he met school teacher Evie Clark
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Captain Nemo
Similarly, whenever there are two sailboats within sight (or just within knowledge) of each other on any ocean or coastal passage, there’s a race on. It takes some honesty to be clear about these things. And Captain Nemo is a winner in both scenarios
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Boat World
Boat World News Review: Haines Hunter Overlander OP725 Super Sunday: Christchurch SailGP | Power On: Ballast Boat Bling | Review: Sargo 31 | The Catch: Fish smarter Electric-powered vessels – EVPs ■
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Boat Bling
‘INVISIBLE MOUNT’ ROD HOLDERS EXPLODING FISH’S NEW STREAMLINE SERIES of flush-mounted rod holders feature a ‘novisible-mounting-screws’ design that is both stylish and functional. Streamline Series ‘invisible mount’ rod holders are available as eithe
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Nordic notes
The Sargo 31 Explorer has a distinctive look that is unlike other powerboats its size, with a trawler-style cabin with reversesheer windscreen, a moderate beam with walkaround decks. This makes the interior accommodation snug for a boat of its size,
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Crossword
1. Rope used to hold down bowsprit of vessel and keep it steady (7) 5. _____ sail – use this in gale conditions (5) 8. Strengthening timber behind main upright timber at bow of vessel (5) 9. _____ Island – spot for boating in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf
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Ballast Balance
Common practice among all race codes is to focus on weight reduction to realise higher speeds, no matter whether you’re karting, sailing, track racing or powerboat racing. In powerboat racing, utilising ballast involves a process of adding weight (ba
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Retro Boats
Reflections: The Jack Hargraves Story | Crossword Captain Nemo – Boat of the Bay Shrine to sailing: Herreshoff Marine Museum Wairarapa billfish | VintageView: Tattersfields Pt III ■
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Editor John Eichelsheim editor@boatingnz.co.nz Regular contributors Ryan Archer, Roger Mills, Sarah Ell, Andrew Howard, Norman Holtzhausen, Harold Kidd, Tom Linskey, John Macfarlane, Lawrence Schäffler, Alex Stone, Matt Vance, Chris Woodhams, Art Dir
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Smartgyro Joins The Power Equipment Family
POWER EQUIPMENT has announced that Smartgyro, a global leader in marine gyroscopic stabilisation technology, has joined the Power Equipment stable of brands. The range of Smartgyro marine stabilisers helps to eliminate boat roll and maximise your ves
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