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Holmglen: The 65th Anniversary of Its Mystery Sinking

Sixty-five years ago this month, the Holmglen, a sturdy 485-ton coastal freighter with only three years in service, met a mysterious and tragic end ju...

3 months ago

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Auckland Welcomes ARM Cuauhtémoc: The Mexican Navy’s Proud Tall Ship Visits New Zealand

The iconic ARM Cuauhtémoc sailed into Auckland’s Princes Wharf on October 28, 2024.

3 months ago

Boat Business

The Lance Fink Story: For the love of boats

Lance Fink is the founder and director of Tristram Marine. Having recently passed the batten onto his sons and semi-retired, it seemed appropriate to ...

5 months ago

Boating history

Murder most foul

Like many war vets, he never spoke about his experience at the hands of his captors – not entirely surprising given the horror of the Behar Massacre.

2 years ago

April 2022

VINTAGE VIEW – ONE MAN AND HIS BOATS; HARRY JENKINS, PART3 – Wartime Pacific cruises

Harry Jenkins could trace his ancestry through his mother’s side back to Sir Francis Drake. His new yacht, Golden Hind, the biggest private yacht yet ...

3 years ago

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ONE MAN AND HIS BOATS; HARRY JENKINS, PART 1. Strictly business

Harry Reginald Jenkins was a prominent Auckland businessman, launch owner and yachtsman for 30 years from 1916. Harry was born in Eltham, Taranaki,...

3 years ago

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GEORGE DIBBERN; THE 1934 TRANS-TASMAN RACE PT 111 / Te Rapunga versus Ngataki

At North Head, Te Rapunga led Ngataki by half a mile and drew steadily away in the broad lead up the coast into a rising easterly. Te Rapunga last sig...

3 years ago

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GEORGE DIBBERN; THE 1934 TRANSTASMAN RACE / Symbol of freedom

The moment they arrived in March 1934 George Dibbern and Te Rapunga were good news in Auckland. George seemed to be a new face of Germany; not the com...

3 years ago

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GEORGE DIBBERN AND TE RAPUNGA – PART 1 / Exotic sails

“I WILL NOT HAVE THAT MAN IN MY HOUSE”, said my mother, with quite out-of-character emphasis. She was talking about George Dibbern, the exotic foreign...

3 years ago

Boat Brief

Bean Rock 150 years

Alex and Lesley Stone delve into the history of Bean Rock lighthouse – 150 years old this year. Fl(3) WR 8s 15m 14/11 M She flashes three times eve...

3 years ago

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MARU AND AUCKLAND’S 24FT MULLET BOATS / Match-racing the Mulletties

John Dallimore of Whitianga has recently gifted the 24ft mullet boat Maru to Jason Prew, classicyachtsman- about-town, on the condition that Jason res...

3 years ago

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JACK BROOKE AND WAKAYA – The science of great design

Jack Brooke was not only a vigorous leader in New Zealand yachting and recognised from his earliest days as an amateur yacht designer of stature, but ...

3 years ago

August 2021

CALLIOPE SEA SCOUTS’ CENTENARY Scouting for the generations

Founded in June 1921 at HMS Philomel, the Devonport Naval Base, Calliope Sea Scouts Troop is the oldest surviving Sea Scout troop in New Zealand. I ac...

3 years ago

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THE SINCLAIRS OF LYTTELTON PART 3 – A fascination with lateen rigs

In February 1891 it looked as if the ‘Little Wonder Syndicate’ – which owned Mascotte – might be falling apart, or perhaps they were trying to cash in...

4 years ago

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THE SINCLAIRS OF LYTTELTON PART 2 – Mascotte

Jimmy Sinclair’s Mascotte was not only the Champion yacht of Lyttelton from 1891, he was also New Zealand Champion in 1892 and 1893. Jimmy had contin...

4 years ago

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Walter Reeks’ ‘Volunteer’ & Bailey’s ‘Viking’

Volunteer was built in October 1888 during a wave of large yacht construction in Sydney in which her designer, Walter Reeks, played a large role. This...

4 years ago

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Dumas in New Zealand

There have been many solo ocean passages and circumnavigations, but few as challenging in concept and timing as that of Argentinian Vito Dumas in his ...

4 years ago

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Steeple-chasing the Otago mole: Professor R.J. Scott & Yvonne

Yvonne was one of nine entrants manoeuvring for the start of the Otago Yacht Club’s Rudder Cup Ocean Race to Oamaru and back.

4 years ago

Boating history

The steeple-chaser

This is a tale with three players – R.J. Scott, the yacht Yvonne, and the mole at the entrance to Otago Harbour.

4 years ago

Boating history

Tasmanian salvation: Te Rapunga

Built in the early 1920s in Germany, the iconic 32-foot double-ended ketch Te Rapunga is enjoying a complete restoration by Tasmanian wooden boat spec...

5 years ago

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Doctor in the house

Yachtsman heroes of the Spanish Flu: Doctor Robert Haldane Makgill, Part 1.

5 years ago

Boating history

THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918 Lest we forget

It’s a grim fact that the current Covid-19 epidemic is just the latest in the waves of pandemics that have swept through humanity regularly since reco...

5 years ago

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Austin Powered

Low, sleek and powerful, an Austin-Healey sports car is a rare classic – prized by collectors all over the world. But rarer still – particularly in Ne...

5 years ago

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The last of the Cape Horners

When a young Malcolm Pearson went to sea the world was a different place. It was a time after WWII, but before the rise of precision timing, just-in-...

5 years ago

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The Hewsons part 2: The Jagger brothers & John Burns

When Capt. John Carrick Hewson was drowned off his steamer Waitoa at Clevedon in 1896, his wife Ellen was left with eight children aged between 2 and ...

5 years ago

Boating history

Return to Dunkirk

After an extensive, five-year restoration, a lifeboat from one of the ships involved in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation of 330,000 Allied troops...

5 years ago

Boating history

Saving uWHILNA

An 18m 110-year old yawl lying in Wellington’s Mana Marina is a rare, surviving example of the work of her American designer – Charles Drown Mower. He...

5 years ago

Boating history

BOATING FAMILIES – The Freyberg boys, PART 2

The London-born Freyberg boys grew up in the hills of Wellington as thorough Kiwi lads, dare-devils with imposing physical stature and skills.

5 years ago

Boating history

BOATING FAMILIES – The Freyberg boys

The Freyberg brothers had an overdose of daring in their DNA. They were all six-footers and strode through their lives, seemingly oblivious to danger....

5 years ago

Boating history

THE SWALES FAMILY PART 2 – Change of focus

A second instalment about the maritime legacy that was the Swales family – and in this one the focus shifts to their launches.

5 years ago

Boating history

Vintage outboards

Passion seems a strong emotion to apply to outboard engines – but it certainly applies to the members of the Antique Outboard Motor Club Incorporated...

5 years ago

Boating history

Will Foote’s houseboat

New Zealand’s early 20th century sawmillers were a nomadic lot, and often devised unusual solutions to accommodate their lifestyles.

5 years ago

Boating history

Frozen clues: Franklin’s ships found

Maritime archeologists are confident they’ll soon have a better idea of what caused the loss of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus in their ill-fa...

5 years ago

Boating history

STREET’S TREASURE TROVE

A new exhibition at the New Zealand Maritime Museum celebrates the man behind the historic Fosters ship chandlery and one of the country’s most recogn...

6 years ago

Boating history

Southern girl – PASTIME PART 1

Pastime is one of the few South Island 19th century yachts to have survived in anything like her original form. She was built at Lyttelton by Malcolm ...

6 years ago

Boating history

Saving IDA

Seven months after she was rescued from almost certain destruction in Sydney, the 124-year-old gaff-cutter Ida is about halfway through a com...

6 years ago

Boating history

Mason Clipper 23 resto

Whangamata-based master craftsman Harry Nordberg has resuscitated a 1962 Mason Clipper 23 – giving the 57-year-old dame the cosmetic surgery she need...

6 years ago

Boating history

American style – AUCKLAND LAUNCHES OF 1919 – PART 3

The major launches built in Auckland for the 1919-1920 season were spectacular. Strong styling influences came from contemporary American ‘express cru...

6 years ago

Boating history

Kennedy’s Sea Desk

A keen sailor, acquiring Manitou was one of the first things Kennedy did when elected as the 35th President of the United States in 1961, having falle...

6 years ago

Boating history

Spirit of Manasoo

The amazingly intact wreck of the 54m steel steamer, Manasoo, lost in a storm on September 15, 1928, has been located in deep water by an internationa...

6 years ago

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FISHING

White Pointer Boats 30th Anniversary Fishing Comp, 5 - 8 Feb 2025 in Waihau Bay

Makaira Trailer Boat Competition, 25 & 26 Jan 2025 in Whangaroa

Stabicraft Fish N Chicks Tournament, 6 - 8 Feb 2025 in Tauranga. Dress up theme is “Ladies of their Time”. Raising funds to help find a cure for Breast Cancer.

Surtees Annual Fishing Competition, 28 Feb - 1 Mar 2025 in Whakatane

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

Stabicraft Te Anau Manapouri Fishing Classic, 25 - 27 Oct 2025 TBC in Te Anau Manapouri

REGATTAS

Rolex Sydney to Hobart, 26 Dec 2024 starts in Sydney, Australia

New Zealand Sail Grand Prix, 18 & 19 Jan 2025 in Auckland

Bay of Islands Sailing Week, 21 - 24 Jan 2025 at Bay of Islands

NZ Millenium Cup, 1 - 4 Feb 2025 at Waitemata Harbour

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

NZ Match Racing Championships, 2025 dates tbc in Auckland

HYDRO THUNDER

Lucas Oil Hydro Thunder Race - Mangakino, 18 & 19 Jan 2025 at Mangakino

Lucas Oil Hydro Thunder Race - Karapiro, 7 - 9 Feb 2025 at Karapiro

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 R2, 1 Dec 2024 at Featherston

2024/25 NZ Jetsprint Championship R3, 27 Dec 2024 at Wanganui

UIM World Jetsprint Championships, 25 Jan -2 Feb 2025 at Wanaka (25 & 26 Jan) and Wanganui (1 & 2 Feb)

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

2024 Golden Homes NZ Jet Boat Marathon, 2025 dates TBC on Southland Rivers (Oreti, Waiau and Mataura)

National Jet Boat Rally 2024, 2025 date TBC at Oliver Road, Bendigo (near Cromwell)

WATERSPORTS

Yamaha Rollo's Marine Bridge 2 Bridge, 2025 dates tbc Staged on the Waikato River between Cambridge & Taupiri, based in Hamilton, New Zealand

NON-MOTORISED SPORT

Waka Ama - 2025 National Sprint Championships, 12 - 18 Jan 2025 at Lake Karapiro, Cambridge

Waka Ama - 2025 Secondary School Nationals, 24 - 28 Mar 2025 at Lake Tikitapu, Rotorua

ANTIQUE, CLASSIC & RETRO BOATS

25th NZ Antique & Classic Boat Show , 1 & 2 Mar 2025 at Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes

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

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Auckland Welcomes ARM Cuauhtémoc: The Mexican Navy’s Proud Tall Ship Visits New Zealand

The Lance Fink Story: For the love of boats

Murder most foul

VINTAGE VIEW – ONE MAN AND HIS BOATS; HARRY JENKINS, PART3 – Wartime Pacific cruises

ONE MAN AND HIS BOATS; HARRY JENKINS, PART 1. Strictly business

GEORGE DIBBERN; THE 1934 TRANS-TASMAN RACE PT 111 / Te Rapunga versus Ngataki

GEORGE DIBBERN; THE 1934 TRANSTASMAN RACE / Symbol of freedom

GEORGE DIBBERN AND TE RAPUNGA – PART 1 / Exotic sails

Bean Rock 150 years

MARU AND AUCKLAND’S 24FT MULLET BOATS / Match-racing the Mulletties

JACK BROOKE AND WAKAYA – The science of great design

CALLIOPE SEA SCOUTS’ CENTENARY Scouting for the generations

THE SINCLAIRS OF LYTTELTON PART 3 – A fascination with lateen rigs

THE SINCLAIRS OF LYTTELTON PART 2 – Mascotte

Walter Reeks’ ‘Volunteer’ & Bailey’s ‘Viking’

Dumas in New Zealand

Steeple-chasing the Otago mole: Professor R.J. Scott & Yvonne

The steeple-chaser

Tasmanian salvation: Te Rapunga

Doctor in the house

THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918 Lest we forget

Austin Powered

The last of the Cape Horners

The Hewsons part 2: The Jagger brothers & John Burns

Return to Dunkirk

Saving uWHILNA

BOATING FAMILIES – The Freyberg boys, PART 2

BOATING FAMILIES – The Freyberg boys

THE SWALES FAMILY PART 2 – Change of focus

Vintage outboards

Will Foote’s houseboat

Frozen clues: Franklin’s ships found

STREET’S TREASURE TROVE

Southern girl – PASTIME PART 1

Saving IDA

Mason Clipper 23 resto

American style – AUCKLAND LAUNCHES OF 1919 – PART 3

Kennedy’s Sea Desk

Spirit of Manasoo