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Boat Brief

Tautoku! Cargo Proa

The quest for sustainable sea transport has been on the agendas of Blue Pacific ...
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Alex Stone's Reading List

Summer reading essentials

A selection of interesting and unusual books for boat or bach.
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December 2022

Radio waves

Continuing our series on the yacht clubs of New Zealand, we thought we’d visit a...
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Boating News

Blue Smoke Heaven

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

Keep up the fight

She started off as one giant log of kauri, the superlative boat-building timber ...
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Boat Business

CRC’s NEW TRANS-TASMAN MD 

CRC INDUSTRIES has announced that Murray Walbran, Trans-Tasman Managing Director...
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Okains Bay (Up the creek: Old boats heaven) // Photo credit: Lesley Stone
September 2022

Okains Bay: Old Boats Heaven

This is an Up the Creek adventure that can be approached in both directions: eit...
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Features

TRADITIONAL TREASURES PART II

When the tūpuna (ancestors) of today’s Māori people of New Zealand first arrived...
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Features

Up the Creek: The Waikato River at Hamilton

Alex and Lesley Stone venture up the ultimate creek...   Our Up the Creek...
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Features

Ready for a change

There’s more than one way to rig a sailing cat. The two-mast biplane rig is a se...
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