17+ hour, 33+ min ago   (75+ words) Boating New Zealand Apache 555 Repair Uncovers Rot Beyond the Poole Bay 100 Hole Team Apache 555 have started work on the hull damage from June’s Poole Bay 100 debris strike, and a new video from hull specialist Dan Lee shows the assessment has…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (462+ words) Boating New Zealand Golden Globe leaders stretch to 60-mile lead as fleet splits on breeze Six days into the 2026 Golden Globe Race, the fleet is dividing itself along a clean line: boats that found the stronger offshore breeze, and boats…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (125+ words) Freedom Boat Club, Sports Marine now in Queenstown boatingnz.co.nz Freedom Boat Club, Sports Marine now in Queenstown Both Freedome Boat Club and Sports Marine are now in Queenstown, right on the marina, bringing a new level of access,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (233+ words) New Plymouth Yacht Club opens its season with a new website and on Saturday 26 September with a programme designed to convert recent interest into regular sailors. The club held an introduction evening this week that drew approximately 30 prospective members. Four…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (407+ words) Waikato Regional Council welcomes the passing of the third reading of the Maritime Transport (Lifejackets on Recreational Craft) Amendment Bill in Parliament, which will introduce a national requirement for lifejackets to be worn on recreational vessels six metres or less…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (347+ words) New rescue boat suits Dunedin’s coastal work Boating New Zealand New rescue boat suits Dunedin’s coastal work Coastguard Dunedin has formally blessed and relaunched its new rescue vessel, Moana Rescue II, at the unit’s Kitchener Street operations base. Moana Rescue,…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (217+ words) I am overseeing the restoration of MA/SB 32, a Type I Air Sea Rescue vessel from World War II. I read with interest your descriptions of W1 (BNZ, July 2021) – she appears to be, at 64ft and built in 1939, patterned on the same Type…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (231+ words) The Burnsco Elliott 5.9 Traveller Series heads to Northland for Round 4 over the weekend of 12–13 September, with the fleet assembling at the historic Russell Boating Club. Nestled in the heart of the Bay of Islands, Russell offers an idyllic sailing backdrop,…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (129+ words) Conrad Colman's Aotearoa Ocean Racing crew remain 480nm off the lead aboard MSIG Europe, but the Kiwi skipper isn't conceding anything. “We’re certainly behaving like we still have a chance,” Colman said, adding a warning for any rival that falters: “You…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (392+ words) As SailGP debuts a new venue in Valencia, the championship is reaching the point where a bad weekend becomes difficult to recover from. What’s worth watching this weekend. SailGP’s fleet arrives in Valencia this weekend as the Spain Sail Grand…...