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JETSPRINT TITLES DECIDED ON TRICKY WANAKA TRACK

YOUTH & WOMEN’S AC 2024 ROSTER COMPLETE

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

HARBOUR CLASSIC BACK FOR 2024

AMPHIBIOUS SYSTEMS FOR THE WORLD

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

WRIGHT 52 CORRECTION

RIVIERA 585 SUV WORLD PREMIERE

SKIPPERI WINS SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

SAIL GP SEASON 3 FINALE

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES • Whakatane’s Shaw family have produced high-quality, award-winning aluminium trailer boats for over 20 years.

NEW ADVANCEMENTS IN MARINE TECHNOLOGY • Boating has changed substantially over the past few years, and new opportunities to visit in-person boat shows and see all the new gear up close attest to the massive R&D that’s been taking place behind the shadow of the Covid pandemic.

AUTONOMY IS CHANGING BOATING FOREVER

FROM DOCKING ASSISTANCE TO FULLY SELF-DRIVING BOATS

THE FUTURE REALLY IS ELECTRIC

BOAT BLING

BEST OF BRUNNER • Situated on the West Coast of the South Island, about three hours from Christchurch, Lake Brunner is a scenic and family-oriented South Island boating destination.

COASTGUARD ON BRUNNER

New research vessel for Goat Island • The University of Auckland’s Marine Research Laboratory has taken delivery of a new purpose-built vessel that’s bigger and better equipped than the old one.

Getting to Galapagos • The 830-mile passage from Panama to the Galapagos – the most direct way home for Kiwi circumnavigators or Kiwis coming over from Europe – has a reputation among cruisers as fluky and frustrating.

BOAT BUSINESS

NEW BOATS AND BUILDS

20TH ANNIVERSARY, SCIBS AND S75 DEBUT

MERCURY’S PERFORMANCE GUIDES ANGLER TO VICTORY

CARBIEPOLES SHADE SYSTEMS

NEW CEO FOR PROPSPEED

PENSKE OPENS TAURANGA FACILITY

LATEST PRODUCTS AND BRANDS

Key appointments at ENL

Working the Waves • Sometimes, it seems, the universe conspires. A boat review is meant to be an outing on a sparkling bay in perfect winds, just fine for the writer with notebook, and perfect conditions for the photographer. It didn’t work out that way for our look at an extraordinary sailboat, the Pogo 36. It was different – very different – and ultimately, all the better for it.

ROGERS BOATSHOP TURNS 50 • ROGERS BOATSHOP HAS BEEN A NORTH SHORE BOATING INSTITUTION FOR 50 YEARS.

TRIMARAN PIONEERS • Mentioning the word ‘multihull’ in the late 1950s and 1960s was a sure way to be ridiculed by the conservative ocean racing establishment, but they’re not laughing now.

TRIMARAN ORIGINS

AUSTRALIAN HEDLEY NICOL

2022 ROUTE DU RHUM TRIMARANS

Leaking windows and weather windows • As I drove Sauvage into the marina, the pitch-black of night engulfed us and I felt my heart hammering. Would I be able to berth us safely in the dark?

Editor’s Pet • When Boating NZ editor John Eichelsheim was looking for a replacement for his trusty 2008 Stabicraft 459 Frontier, there really was only one choice – another Stabi!

Galley design & construction • One of the benefits of being a part-time boat reviewer is that from time to time I get to experience other people’s boats, and I get to see the latest technology and thinking in terms of layouts, components, and design features. So, when the opportunity came to redesign the interior of my own boat, I had a whole range of ideas to draw from. And nowhere more so than the galley.

RETRO BOATS

All about the boats • Richard Mackay is one of those quiet characters most boaties have never...