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An Indigenous Ocean
The best time and place to curl up with a good book is during your summer cruise or boating day trip...
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Classic yachts (and launches) as ‘Protected New Zealand Objects’
Formed in the mid-1990s, The Classic Yacht Association was at the forefront of protecting classic ya...
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Penske awarded Bergen distributorship
Leading medium-speed engine manufacturer Bergen Engines has granted Penske Australia and New Zealand...
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Sailing to the Heart of Japan – A Cruising Adventure and How-To Guide
Summer reading inspired by our Big Blue Backyard
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New team at Maritimo
A talented new team has joined Maritimo to take on Australasian sales and business development manag...
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Mana of the Pacific – Wisdom from Across Oceania
The best time and place to curl up with a good book is during your summer cruise or boating day trip...
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EVO 60 performance sailing catamaran
The EVO 60 has been designed with both comfort cruising and performance in mind, offering owners the...
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DAME ‘three-peat’ for Raymarine!
Raymarine’s RSW Smart Wind Transducer has won the coveted DAME award in the Navigation and Communica...
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Marex 440 GC Best of Boats
Marex 440 Gourmet Cruiser won Motorboat’s Best of Boats Award 2024 in a ceremony on 28 November in B...
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The Team That Hit The Rocks – The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster
The best time and place to curl up with a good book is during your summer cruise or boating day trip...
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Seeking Miss Maraetai
We are compiling a history of sea rescue out of Maraetai as it has operated from 1975 and it will be...
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Palm Beach GT and GT RS Motor Yachts
Leading the way in Palm Beach Motor Yachts’ next generation of offshore powerboats is the GT RS Seri...
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The World’s Fastest Electric Surfboard
The X-Jet Xtreme claims to be the fastest electric surfboard with a record-breaking top speed of 42m...
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Savvy Navvy downunder
Marine technology company Savvy Navvy has signed Australia-based Paddy Wester as its exclusive Austr...
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Electric and amphibious, anyone?
ZeroJet and Tectrax, two leading New Zealand innovators in electric marine technology, have announce...
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Orca Expands into Oceania
Norwegian marine tech innovator Orca has announced its expansion into the waters around Australia, N...
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Bookabuoy
Great Escape Sailing and MooringBNB have partnered to launch Bookabuoy, a game-changing platform set...
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Carbon Yachts joins MERC
Carbon Yachts has joined the Maritime Emissions Reduction Coalition (MERC), reinforcing its commitme...
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Akzo Nobel applicator training facility
AkzoNobel’s yacht coatings business has opened its first Yacht Paint Application Centre (YPAC) in th...
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5-raters and spoon bows too
However, by 1895 the 5-raters were attracting even more attention than their smaller stablemates. Wh...
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Brest Maritime Festival 2024: World classics extravaganza
Every four years since the 1990s, Brittany’s largest port, Brest, has played host to a gathering of ...
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Nordic rescue: Classic redemption
While you were shivering in a cold and windy Aotearoa, hundreds of kilometres away, a young couple w...
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Pillie power!
What is it about pilchards that makes them irresistible to so many fish?
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Strange little flags…
Today burgees are now widely used by yacht clubs, senior club officers, sailing organisations, and b...
Kiwi-Kraft 780WA
Pontoon alloy boats are seriously good sea handling vessels. I should know, having fished out of man...
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400
Length Over All (M):
7.8
YEAR:
2024
Construction:
6mm hull, 4mm sides, 3mm superstructure
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Aluminium
Innovision IV7000 Amphibious
In engineering the IV7000 to amphibious duty, Innovision has hardly compromised its utility for fish...
Horsepower (HP):
300
Length Over All (M):
8.5
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2024
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6mm bottom, 4mm sides and decks
Length Over All (M):
7.6
CONSTRUCTION:
Aluminium
Elite 16m Mid Pilothouse Te Whara V
In another stellar example of a successful collaboration, boatbuilder Lloyd Stevenson and designer B...
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1,100
Length Over All (M):
16
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2024
Displacement (M):
22,500
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End-grain balsa epoxy composite
Length Over All (M):
14
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Composite
Radian R27 Nordarc
Overall, this is an impressive boat. The styling is bold and unique and will certainly turn heads. T...
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200hp max
Length Over All (M):
6.67
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2024
Displacement (M):
1800
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5mm bottom, 4mm sides, 3mm superstructure
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Aluminium
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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 whe...
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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 t...
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Maritimo 75, standing apart in the global 70-foot market
Maritimo’s 75-foot M75 and S75 represent a distinctly Australian interpretation of how large luxur...
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The night before: Three Kings briefing at the Squadron
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Maritimo 75, standing apart in the global 70-foot market
Maritimo’s 75-foot M75 and S75 represent a distinctly Australian interpretation of how large luxur...
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