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As I write, just before the magazine goes to the printer, another edition of SailGP has just concluded, held in Los Angeles, USA on a very tight racecourse.

Race management is one of those critical jobs that has to be done just right and where accuracy is everything. With more than 43 years of experience, John Parrish – ably assisted by wife Linda – is among this country’s top Race Officers. This is their story.

The winner of Boating New Zealand magazine’s inaugural NZ Retro Boat Trophy went to Tugboat, a Savage Electra Glass ski-boat designed in Australia but manufactured in Christchurch in the 1970s.

Ted Dixon and his partner Jenny Johnson spent eight years cruising the Caribbean and North America, as well as the South Pacific, most recently five months in Fiji, aboard their Nordhavn long-range power cruiser (LRPC) Southern Star. In this second instalment they examine the costs of ‘going dark’.

It’s glorious powerboat weather and ideal for an impromptu speed test of the Upfold 40 launch, Excel. The launch’s owner/driver has a grin from ear to ear; he’s been told to go hard – make it look good. With his new engine now run in, this is his first real opportunity to give it some welly.