Alex at Boating NZ

British Seagull outboard motors and the Te Hoiere Fleet outings are big in Havelock.

She started off as one giant log of kauri, the superlative boat-building timber that made New Zealand famous and the British navy invincible.

CRC INDUSTRIES has announced that Murray Walbran, Trans-Tasman Managing Director will retire in January 2023 and be replaced by current Trans-Tasman Sales Director Bryce McGregor. 

This is an Up the Creek adventure that can be approached in both directions: either by car, downstream from a skyline of magnificent views, or upstream by dinghy from your boat moored in the bay. We did both and can’t decide which was our favourite. You choose.

When the tūpuna (ancestors) of today’s Māori people of New Zealand first arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand around 900-1,000AD, they were at the apex of a millennia of ocean voyaging traditions of discovery.