Looking back at the Hutchwilco Auckland Boat Show 2027 – in video
A short video highlight of the 2026 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show
Kiwi in the deep end: Oakley Marsh and the French offshore dream
I sat down with Oakley Marsh, from Perros-Guirec in France, he was preparing for the Sunday start to his next big race, Le Dé...
Suzuki Marine at Hutchwilco: one product, one focus, and a prop story worth knowing
Suzuki Marine at Hutchwilco: one product, one focus, and a prop story worth knowing Most stands at the Hutchwilco Boat Show c...
Kingfisher Powercats at Hutchwilco: three boats, two hull types, and one very cold kill tank
Tauranga-based Kingfisher Powercats showcases three boats on its pavilion at the Hutchwilco Boat Show. The 510, the 670, and ...
Lusty & Blundell at Hutchwilco: Induction cooking for boats, and a world-first trolling motor d...
The Lusty & Blundell stand at the Hutchwilco Boat Show has plenty to look at, but two things stood out this visit. One ch...
Haines Hunter at Hutchwilco: fibreglass amphibious at its finest
The Haines Hunter stand at the Hutchwilco Boat Show has three boats on it. The SF485 Sport Fisher, the SP635 Sport Pursuit, a...
Rayglass completes the Legend trilogy with the new 2400
Rayglass launched the Legend 2400 at its 2026 boat show in Auckland this week, the third model in a range update that start...
Australia is back in the America’s Cup
Australia has a seventh entry in the Louis Vuitton 38th America's Cup. The Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club's challenge has bee...
Yamaha at Hutchwilco: wireless control, a new electric brand, and a very good finance rate
Yamaha's stand at the Hutchwilco Boat Show covers a lot of ground. Outboards across the full range, Torqeedo electrics, YAM i...
From tinny to 8-metre amphibious: Fin Chaser at the Hutchwilco Boat Show
Fin Chaser's stand sits in the middle of the First Pavilion at the Hutchwilco Boat Show, and it has enough boats to occupy se...
Mercury brings the full range, and a genuinely clever 150
Walking into the Hutchwilco Boat Show and bypassing the food hall entirely is a choice that says something about your priorit...
NZ Marine names new executive director
Former Coastguard New Zealand CEO Callum Gillespie has taken the helm at the New Zealand Marine Industry Association (NZ Mari...
Slingsby makes it two in a row as the Bonds Flying Roos rule Bermuda
Tom Slingsby and the Bonds Flying Roos won the Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix on Sunday, backing up their Rio victory wit...
Slingsby and Spain share the spoils as SailGP hits Bermuda’s Great Sound
The Bonds Flying Roos and Los Gallos head into Super Sunday level on points after four fleet races on Bermuda's Great Sound p...
Three dead after Marine Rescue vessel capsizes at Ballina (NSW, Australia)
"Last night was the darkest night ever experienced by Marine Rescue NSW."
That was the statement posted to the Marine Resc...
He wasn’t in the room. But Conrad Colman was the most talked-about person at yesterday’s...
From the podium, race co-owner and chairman Richard Brisius called him out by name in front of the Minister, the Mayor, and a...
The Ocean Race’s Richard Brisius to Kiwi’s: New Zealand must make a decision.
Richard Brisius doesn't dress it up. The co-owner and race chairman of the Ocean Race was briefly in Auckland to celebrate th...
He could smell it before he could see it
At 21 years old, Richard Brisius was battered and cold somewhere in the Southern Ocean when the first faint outline of New Ze...
Black Foils to sit out Bermuda and New York, targeting Halifax return in June
New Zealand's Black Foils will sit out both May rounds of the Rolex SailGP Championship, missing Bermuda and New York as the ...
Kiwi team locked in for Ocean Race Atlantic as Colman sets sights on the big one
Conrad Colman has his crew. A 100% Kiwi team is confirmed for the Ocean Race Atlantic, leaving New York on 1 September and fi...
Life jacket saves kayaker after two hours in Waitematā Harbour
A man is alive today after spending more than two hours in the cold waters of Waitematā Harbour on Anzac Day morning. His l...
Squadron sells its Kawau heartland
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is selling its Smelting House Bay property on Kawau, a holding that has been part of t...
The flying boat is taking shape, and New Zealand has a front row seat
It is boat, hydrofoil, and aircraft all at once, and it could be coming to a coastline near you sooner than you think. The Se...
Diesel sheen detected at sunken Thames vessel
The Waikato Regional Council is investigating a diesel sheen at Shortland Wharf, Thames, after a 12-metre steel boat sank th...
The night before: Three Kings briefing at the Squadron
The weather and safety briefing for the Three Kings Offshore Yacht Race was held very close to where it will start t his mo...
Higher Ground: Small boat, big ambitions
Higher Ground, the Ross 1066 is not a big boat. At 10.66 metres she will be the second smallest on the Three Kings startline ...
Seizing the day: Carpe Diem heads to the Three Kings
Thirty years after Greg Elliott drew her lines and Phil Bish of Bish Marine built her in Auckland, Carpe Diem is going offsho...
Clockwork heads north again
Steve Mair and the Clockwork crew are back for the Three Kings Offshore Yacht Race. The Shaw 12, starts on 16 April in the Ro...
The canting Kite that loves a fight
Nathan Williams has owned Mr Kite II for six years, been to the Three Kings twice, and finished near the front both times. Wi...
Déjà vu for Motorboat III as she heads back to the Three Kings (with a different name!)
Motorboat III last raced the Three Kings in 2024, though she was called Serena back then, and Josh Adams was at the helm. Ada...
Equilibrium heads to Three Kings again, the skipper is the oldest in the fleet!
Graham Matthews knows this race well, and he knows how to win it. In 2024 he took overall honours on fully crewed handicap on...
The Rio showdown: Slingsby and the BONDS Flying Roos complete a perfect Sunday
The final race of 2026 SailGP Rio: three boats, one race, winner takes all. The Flying Roos, Artemis and Los Gallos lined up ...
Australia wins again, France goes out in flames in the last fleet race in SailGP Rio
The final fleet race of the Rio event had barely started when France's regatta ended. Quentin Delapierre and DS Automobiles F...
Emirates GBR are out of the finals in SailGP Rio
Guanabara Bay finally delivered on Sunday. With 25 knot breeze in the bay, Race 5 got away cleanly and the F50s were up on th...
Cyclone Vaianu, Evening Briefing, Sunday 12 April
Vaianu moves on, leaving significant damage in its wake
Cyclone Vaianu has tracked across the northern North Island and is n...
Vixen Racing withdraws from Three Kings as Cyclone Vaianu intervenes (Sharon’s video in this a...
The Three Kings Offshore Race will start without one of the exciting entries this year, after the Vixen Racing team decided t...
After a slow SailGP Rio opener, the Aussie leads while GBR scramble to recover
SailGP finally made it to South America. On Saturday, Guanabara Bay lived up to pre-race expectations and gave the fleet ever...
Germany wins Race 4 in SailGP Rio in a dying breeze
The breeze finally gave up in race four after testing the fleet all day in Guanabara Bay. What little wind remained was patch...
Cyclone Vaianu: we all got through the night
Cyclone Vaianu has tracked down the upper North Island overnight, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and widespread power cuts...
Kiwi Phil Robertson and Red Bull Italy break through in Race 3 of SailGP Rio
Brazil finally makes the start
The third fleet race brought 12 boats to the line for the first time in Rio. Mubadala Brazil ...