If you want to find out how good your new boat will be as a long-range offshore cruiser, there’s one sure-fire way to find out: sail her to New Zealand from Europe.
‘Explorer’ means ‘hardtop’ when you’re talking Innovision. La Belle Rose is a particularly well specified 656 Explorer from innovative Auckland aluminium boat manufacturer Innovision Boats.
Built in Ukraine for the discerning European market, Brig’s range of high-quality RIBs has found favour with boaters all over the world, including New Zealand.
Scandinavian design gets a major boost from German engineering in this turbocharged BRABUS, reports our Australian correspondent Kevin Green.
If you can’t find exactly the boat you want to buy, and you’re a handy chap, why not design and build your own? That was the thinking when engineer and ideas guy Austin Kell returned home to the Bay of Islands after years working overseas, and was looking for a new boat to enjoy with his young family.
Getting back out on the water after an extended period in lockdown felt so good — especially with the new Bavaria C42 to take for a spin on a nearly deserted Waitematā Harbour.
French boat manufacturer Beneteau is one of the oldest and largest boatbuilders in existence, still owned by the family of the original founder.
How a decades-long family boat building empire has happily downsized to build the world’s best coach boats.
Christchurch-based Rae Line’s latest is the 180 XS featuring Volvo Penta’s new Aquamatic Sterndrive V6 200 DPS – potent petrol power in a stylish bowrider package that’s bound to turn heads.
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