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May 2025

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High-tech hardtops: Lighter, stronger Hunters

Auckland’s Haines Hunter has expanded its vacuum-infusion manufacturing production line, adding the popular 725 model’s hardtop to the process.

30 April 2025

May 2025

The Catch: Let’s put this with that…

Pairing different soft-baits with specific jig-heads can significantly increase your chances of a successful fishing day.

30 April 2025

Boat Business

The perfect engine for a Pelin Challenger

The Pelin Challenger has been a very popular Kiwi cruiser, with many examples having been built over the years, both by professional and amateur boa...

30 April 2025

Features

Trailer boat adventures: Time out in Tennyson

If you enjoy a long, steep, narrow and winding road trip, then Tennyson Inlet could be the perfect trailer boating destination for you. Located in...

30 April 2025

Features

Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2025: Wooden show time

The Australian Wooden Boat Festival is held every two years in Hobart and is often described as the biggest celebration of wooden boats in the Souther...

30 April 2025

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Features

Electric vs Petrol outboards: Not so fast

Should we replace our petrol outboards with electrics? New research says no, and that over their full cradle-to-grave lifespan it is internal combus...

30 April 2025

Boat Brief

Yamaha hydrogen power: Hydrogen-fuelled outboard

The world’s first hydrogen-powered prototype outboard will make its New Zealand debut at the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show in May.

30 April 2025

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May 2025

Australian Wooden Boat Festival

My interest in the festival was piqued in 2019 when I travelled to Hobart to help my friend Peter Mortimer sail his 45-foot timber ketch Tamariki from...

28 April 2025

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NZ Events Worth Adding to Your Calendar

Have an event you'd like to list on Boating New Zealand. Contact us with the details.

FISHING

Hook Me Up Fishing Competition - Matakana vs Hillside, 7 Mar 2025 in Whakatane

The Kubota Billfish Classic, 12 - 15 Mar 2025 in Mercury Bay, Whitianga

ITM Fishing Competition, 13 - 16 Mar 2025 in Whangaroa

NZ Lure Masters (Catch, Measure and Release competition), 3 & 4 Oct 2025, New Zealand wide

REGATTAS

Toyota Youth International Match Racing Cup, 26 Feb - 4 Mar 2025 in Auckland

PIC Harbour Classic, 28 Feb - 1 Mar 2025 in Auckland

Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2025, starting 11 Oct 2025 TBC from Sydney Harbour

PIC Insurance Brokers Coastal Classic, 24 Oct 2025 TBC from Auckland to Russell

Rolex Sydney to Hobart, 26 Dec 2025 starts in Sydney, Australia

HYDRO THUNDER

Lucas Oil Hydro Thunder Race - Lake Rotoiti, 8 - 9 Mar 2025 at Nelson Lakes

Lucas Oil Hydro Thunder Race - Lake Twizel, 29 - 30 Mar 2025 at Twizel

JET BOAT RACING

2024/25 NZ Jetsprint Championship R4, 23 Feb 2025 at Wanganui

2025 NZ Marathon Coast-to-Coast, 16 to 25 Mar 2025 starting at Greymouth ad finishing at Christchurch

WATERSPORTS

IWWF University Nationals (waterskiing), 26 February to 2 March Orakei Basin, Auckland

MEET UPS

Bay of Plenty Trailer Yacht Cruising Rally, Easter 2025 at Lake Rotoiti, BOP

SHOWS

Moana Auckland - New Zealand's Ocean Festival, 27 Jan to 9 Mar 2025 in Auckland

Auckland Boat Show, 6 - 9 Mar 2025 to be held at the Viaduct Events Centre and Jellicoe Harbour, Auckland

The Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show, 15-18 May 2025 to be held at the Viaduct Events Centre and Jellicoe Harbour, Auckland

NZ Boat, Fish and Dive Show, 30 & 31 Aug 2025 to be held at Mystery Creek Events Centre, Waipa

NEWS TIPS?
Send your photos, videos, stories, and tip-offs to ahoy@boatingnz.co.nz or call us on 022-023-7507.

May 2025

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Weekly Newsletter

Social Media

The Catch: Let’s put this with that…

The perfect engine for a Pelin Challenger

Trailer boat adventures: Time out in Tennyson

Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2025: Wooden show time

Electric vs Petrol outboards: Not so fast

Yamaha hydrogen power: Hydrogen-fuelled outboard

Australian Wooden Boat Festival