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BOAT WORLD • Boat World News Review: Artnautica 60 Sportfisher Innovision Boats celebrates 10 years Bennington Pontoon Boats | Boat Bling

BOAT SHOW EXHIBITORS UPBEAT

ONEHUNGA FESTIVAL CARDBOARD BOAT RACE

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

SCIBS TICKETS ON SALE

PLENTY TO SEE, DO AND WIN

AUCKLAND SAILGP DATES CONFIRMED

RON GIVEN CELEBRATION

SAILAU – AN ADVENTURE FILM WITH PURPOSE

TE REHUTAI RETURNS

OBITUARY RALPH ROBERTS MBE 1935 – 2023

CARBON – CRAFTED • Launched late last year, the 18m sportfisher Matuku is a bespoke creation (and then some) from Auckland’s Lloyd Stevenson Boatbuilders. She’s distinctive for many reasons, but her 100% carbon fibre construction is the defining feature of the overall package.

10 years of Innovision and going strong • Innovision’s range of distinctive and capable trailerboats are finding favour with media pundits and the boating public alike.

LUXURY LOUNGING • Bennington is a serious player in the world of pontoon boats, building around 55 aluminium vessels per day at its 3,530m2 Elkhart, Indiana plant.

BOATBLING

BOAT BUSINESS • Boat Business News Review: Aluka 823 Walkaround | Coppins Sea Anchor Far Horizons: Panama Canal | Gyro-stabilised Sealegs 8i The Catch: Rigging live & dead baits for kingfish Review: Wright 52 Powercat | Ladder Living II Sail Journey: Tiri day-trip & Boat Show New Plymouth Yacht Club | DIY: What fridge?

NEW BOATS AND BUILDS

BAYS BOATING MERCURY DEALER OF THE YEAR

RIVIERA FLEET HEADS TO SANCTUARY COVE

HP WATERMAKERS & RAYMARINE AXIOM SIMPLIFY LIFE ONBOARD

HANSE 460 WOWS SHOW-GOERS

AWLCRAFT 3000 ENHANCED COLOUR

NEW FACE AT TENOB

2023 SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW

EXPANDED SERVICE AT KIWI YACHTING

L & B COMMERCIAL AND LEISURE MANAGER

FULL FURY • Boat shows stimulate interest in boat ownership, and their timing is ideal for launching new brands and models. And so it was that Aluka Boats launched its first model, the Aluka 823 Walkaround, to coincide with the Auckland Boat Show in March.

MORE THAN A LIFE SAVER! • The best sea-anchors in the world are made in New Zealand. By Coppins, a family company that’s been in the same site in the main street of Motueka for four generations and over 120 years.

The short-cut between the seas • Me, go around Cape Horn? Seriously? Do I want to brave roaring high-latitude gales just to earn an earring in my left ear? Um, no!

Quick Stability • SEALEGS QUICK GYROSCOPIC STABILISERS

Rigging baits for kingfish • Kingfish are an enigma. One day they smash anything remotely edible, baits and lures alike, the next they seem to have their mouths sewn shut. Unfortunately, the second scenario is far more common than the first!

LIVING THE DREAM • Stepping onto the transom and into the cockpit of the Wright 52 is a boater’s dream: broad, deep, flat and safe.

Ladder Living PART II • The second part of SV Wave Runner and her crew’s experiences of living on the hard during their sailing adventures in the Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Med.

Tiritiri Matangi and a new tender – maybe • We were so excited – after cyclones and high winds we finally found ourselves with the opportunity for a day excursion on the water.

Time capsule & future vision • For a club focussed on dinghies, cat and trailer-yachts, it’s remarkable that New Plymouth is also the custodian of an epic ocean-racing challenge that’s lasted for 50 years and still going...