June 2022
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Kitset water solution
I’m writing this article during the 2022 April school holidays while anchored at Great Barrier Island, our newly favourite sa...
THE PETER BURLING & BLAIR TUKE STORY – The Golden Boys
Blair Tuke still remembers the first time he saw his name etched on the inside of a beer bottle cap.
Dynamic trim
After a Covid-induced hiatus of three years Advance Trident Limited (ATL) welcomed Zipwake’s Patric Nilsson to New Zealand fo...
Ewincher Reader’s Choice Favourite Anchorage
Boating NZ readers were asked to share their favourite anchorages with us, accompanied by a photo if possible, and explain wh...
More fish in the sea
Why aren’t we doing more to breed and release native fish? A simple question with complicated answers. Alex Stone looks at so...
Grow your own floating garden
The days when sailors had to survive on a diet of salted pork and ship’s biscuits while scurvy loosened their teeth are long ...
Superyachts to return
New Zealand’s air and sea borders will open from August 1, allowing tourists to again enjoy one of the world’s great natural ...
Saving the Success
A new Heritage Trust has been established to purchase the historic scow Success and restore her as near as possible to origin...
Of whales and men
The Arctic Circle, at 66 degrees 34 minutes north, was well astern and the compass card, becoming unreliable at these latitud...
Boy Wells and Florence Part II
In last month’s issue Ian Wells had arrived at the point where his halfbrother Boy Wells of Whitianga was contemplating remov...
Doctor’s orders
They were doctor’s orders of the kind Bernie Reid could only agree with. Keep rowing, mate – even if it hurts your ageing kne...
A popping little cockle
The design became known as a ‘Sounds Popper’ – based on the sound of her single-cylinder, 8hp Yanmar engine – ‘pop, pop, pop’...
Through a vintage lens
He’s witnessed enormous change as the camera technology evolved over the decades – the switch from large-format ‘plate’ photo...
Showtime!
The Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show came to a successful conclusion last Sunday, and as I write, Sanctuary Cove Internationa...
Surviving Ata
It is estimated the Tongan Islands were first populated around 2,500 years ago as part of the Lapita expansion into the Pacif...