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Lapsed jetboating enthusiast Stewart Hydes spent eight years working for Fi-GLASS Boats in Christchurch, so it speaks volumes he opted for…

The restoration and ownership of classic boats is booming – across New Zealand and around the globe. Tom Fraser catches up with Dave…

How a decades-long family boat building empire has happily downsized to build the world’s best coach boats.

It’s an overlooked, quiet, and quite beautiful waterway right close – surprisingly so – to Auckland. Me old shipmate Tony and I decided to…

The newest entry in the field is the Shaw S3 Tender, a rigid 2.9m planing tender, the brainchild of Auckland-based yacht designer Rob Shaw.

The marine industry in New Zealand is small, consisting of passionate and talented people with companies that punch above their weight…

The route across each island is along quiet, perfectly maintained roads and winds through mountainous terrain and verdant vegetation.

Fifteen-year-old Mack Lane built his own 4.5m open top fishing boat from plywood sheathed in fibreglass, with some guidance from his…

We realised that rescuing someone at sea is not easy, especially at night.

Renovating the old boat became a welcome distraction and motivation for the couple to move on.

Before going racing, taking the hull to a boatbuilder for a once-over is a smart way to ensure the transom and hull survive the punishment…

My Gold Card birthday present was a weekend of precious father-daughter-boats time. Zoë and I first watched a Women’s World Cup Soccer…