Boating New Zealand

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Boating New ZealandNational titles decided as Youth World Champs beckon New Zealand’s top youth sailors battled everything from 30-knot winds to light, shifty conditions at the 2026 PredictWind New Zealand Youth Championships, with national titles and Youth World…

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Boating New ZealandTakacat Backpack Inflatable dinghies are great for providing beach access from a launch or larger trailer boat, and most owners of larger boats have some sort of tender.

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Boating New ZealandWASSP Multibeam Marks 20 Years WASSP, the New Zealand-based manufacturer of multibeam sonar technology and part of the Furuno group, this year marks 20 years since the launch of its first multibeam system at the SMM maritime trade…

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Boating New ZealandAmaroq 40: The British Diesel Two-Stroke Going to Coniston A 697cc British diesel outboard will run the measured kilometre on Coniston Water this week, on the back of an inflatable race catamaran rather than the patrol boats and tenders… Read the full story…

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Boating New ZealandCoastguard Nelson takes three national titles at 2026 awards The Tasman Bay unit took three of the seven national titles at Coastguard Tautiaki Moana’s Volunteer Excellence Awards in Auckland on Saturday night.

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Boating New ZealandNew Zealand Builders Plate and Vessel Register launch November 2026 New Zealand’s recreational marine industry will gain two linked conformance and registration services in November 2026, giving boat owners, dealers and builders verifiable evidence of vessel…

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Boating New Zealand24 Heures de Normandie 2027 Will Run as a Continuous 24-Hour Race Rouen Inshore Racing has told teams that the 2027 24 Heures de Normandie will run as a single continuous 24-hour race on April 30 and May 1, 2027, and is… Read the full story at Powerboat News.

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Boating New ZealandAuckland Boat Show sets new goals More sea trials, shared boating and creative approaches to getting on the water will sit alongside the traditional Auckland Boat Show line up next April.

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Boating New ZealandRayglass Boats Protector Expedition Series Rayglass Boats has launched the Protector Expedition Series, the first major update to Protector hardtop design in nearly seven years.

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Boating New ZealandFlying high New Zealand windfoiler Aimee Bright has capped a breakthrough international season in spectacular fashion, coming from behind to win the iQFOiL Under-23 World Championship in a dramatic Grand Final…

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay