Boating New Zealand Magazine
2025
Readership surges across print and digital
Welcome to your October 2025 edition of Boating New Zealand magazine. In this issue, it is my great pleasure to share some good news. In the latest independent readership survey, Boating New Zealand’s print publication—this magazine—saw a 25% surge in readership in the last six months, which means nearly 100,000 people read the magazine each month. That’s the best readership figure for Boating New Zealand since 2016, and while it’s just a snapshot and not the whole year, and it’s also true magazines are seeing a general resurgence worldwide after years of decline, it’s still fantastic news....
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Assault Amphibious milestone
Peter Carlson and the team at Family Boats are very proud of delivering their 20th Assault amphibious boat.
The team belie...
Eight simple battery checks from Century Batteries to help prevent rescues
During this year's National Safe Boating Week (6 to 12 October), Century Batteries encouraged New Zealanders to put water saf...
Fishing is good for your health
A significant New Zealand study involving nearly 1,900 anglers, the largest of its kind globally, has shown that fishing can ...
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Fishing, fast boats, and factories
A bill designating 19 new marine protected areas for Hauraki Gulf Marine Park has been passed, with the new regulations slate...
Freedom Boat Club Christchurch and Freedom local
Freedom Boat Club, the world’s largest boat club, is expanding in New Zealand with a new location at Te Ana Marina in Lyttelt...
Getting Saucy
Saucy Jane is the name of Bill Hamilton’s first successful jetboat, now lost to history, and of Jim Lapsley’s homebuilt worki...
HCB for New Zealand
James Dalzell from The Nautical Group luxury yacht brokers has announced the group will represent premium American centre-con...
Moana Auckland returns in 2026
Moana Auckland, New Zealand’s Ocean Festival, returns for its third edition from 28 February to 15 March 2026. This ocean-ins...
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Momentum electric outboard for New Zealand
Momentum Electric Marine’s advanced M10 electric outboard motor has arrived in New Zealand, distributed by ONEDesigns.XYZ. Th...
Naiad production in USA
The Whiskey Project Group (TWPG), a global leader in high-performance watercraft design and manufacturing, has opened a new m...
New Buccaneer dealer
Auto Marine Services (AMS) in Taupo has been appointed an official dealer for Buccaneer Boats.
The central North Island dea...
New head for Volvo Penta
Volvo Penta has appointed Hanna Ljungqvist as Head of the Volvo Penta Marine Business and a member of the Volvo Penta Executi...
NZ Composites GRX Arma PET
NZ Composites is introducing Armacell’s ArmaPET Struct GRX, to replace the currently stocked GR grade as existing stock deple...
OceanPro 533 Cuddy Cabin
OceanPro is not really a name that springs to mind when thinking about New Zealand-built aluminium trailer boats, but if the ...
Horsepower (HP):
70-100
Length Over All (M):
5.5
YEAR:
2025
Construction:
Pontoon-style aluminium monohull
Length Over All (M):
5.33
CONSTRUCTION:
Aluminium
Riviera 4300 Sports Express
Building large, multimillion-dollar bluewater motoryachts for a global market is a serious business, not to be taken lightly....
Length Over All (M):
13.88
YEAR:
2025
Displacement (M):
15,500
CONSTRUCTION:
Fibreglass (GRP)
Smuggler Strata 800SS
New Zealand has led the world in the development of small amphibious recreational boats, and hundreds of Kiwis have taken to ...
Horsepower (HP):
300
Length Over All (M):
8
YEAR:
2024
CONSTRUCTION:
GRP hull and decks, Hypalon tubes
Tech advice for Northland customers
Lusty & Blundell has introduced a new senior sales role at its Whangarei branch to meet the growing demand for expert tec...
Viknes 10
Now headed to our shores, is this clever new family cruiser the ultimate all-rounder?
Very few boats make quite such an im...
Length Over All (M):
10.60
Displacement (M):
6,300
Construction:
Fibreglass (GPR)
What’s my line?
In some ways we live in a golden age of fishing, where using all sorts of diverse techniques, a wide variety of popular fish ...
ZeroJet and Pochon electrify French waters
ZeroJet, a pioneering New Zealand company, has announced a new partnership with Pochon, a leading French marine equipment dis...
ZeroJet electrifies the AB Inflatables Lammina AL
ZeroJet has introduced a new electric RIB package based on the AB Inflatables Lammina AL platform. This high-performance, cos...