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ZGyro expands across Australia & New Zealand
8+ hour, 48+ min ago (147+ words) ZGyro is gaining strong momentum across Australia and New Zealand following its debut at the Sydney International Boat Show 2025 and the New Zealand Boat Show in March 2026. With over 650 units installed globally, the company has sold 10 units locally across a…...
Wooden wonders
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (373+ words) The second time round for the Auckland Wooden Boat Festival set up an expectation for more to see and do. Now a biannual event in phase with The Australian Wooden Boat Festival based in Hobart, Auckland delivered a more diverse…...
Ruamāhanga Diversion: New Zealand's fastest water
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (367+ words) Nature endowed the vast, thinly populated Wairarapa with just about everything, except sheltered, calm-water boating venues. Fortunately for boaties, engineers have made up for the Wairarapa’s natural shortcomings. Before the diversion was built, Lake Wairarapa used to flood several times…...
WWII engines sought
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (217+ words) I am overseeing the restoration of MA/SB 32, a Type I Air Sea Rescue vessel from World War II. I read with interest your descriptions of W1 (BNZ, July 2021) – she appears to be, at 64ft and built in 1939, patterned on the same Type…...
UIM F2 – The Engine Dilemma
1+ week, 1+ day ago (63+ words) Boating New Zealand UIM F2 – The Engine Dilemma The Mercury Racing OptiMax 200XS SST, the engine that has powered the majority of the UIM F2 World Championship field since 2010, has not been built as a complete new… Read the full story at Powerboat…...
Landmark Indigenous-led exhibition
1+ week, 6+ day ago (228+ words) Boating NZ is New Zealand’s premier marine title devoted to putting its readers behind the wheel of the latest trailerboats, yachts and launches to hit the market. It inspires with practical content and cruising adventures, leads the fleet with its…...
LSB's Catalyst Chase 50
2+ week, 10+ hour ago (197+ words) Boating NZ is New Zealand’s premier marine title devoted to putting its readers behind the wheel of the latest trailerboats, yachts and launches to hit the market. It inspires with practical content and cruising adventures, leads the fleet with its…...
Final preparations underway for upcoming grand prix of shanghai-china
2+ week, 4+ day ago (351+ words) Boating New Zealand Final preparations underway for upcoming grand prix of shanghai-china The powerboat racing world is returning to China’s waterways, with Shanghai set to host the third round of the 2026 UIM Formula 1 championship later this year. After Jonas Andersson’s…...
Kawau's Lidgard House passes to Ngāti Manuhiri
2+ week, 5+ day ago (239+ words) After 37 years, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has sold its Smelting House Bay estate on Kawau Island to mana whenua Ngāti Manuhiri, closing a chapter that began with the Lidgard family in 1954. Roy and Irene Lidgard made their land…...
AT43
2+ week, 5+ day ago (926+ words) In 2018, after some 40 years of operation, Auckland’s Allan Tongs Boatbuilders (ATB) embarked on a risky new strategy. It switched production to a single design – the 13.5m Elite AT43 launch – aimed at a niche market. Eight years on, the Covid hiccup notwithstanding, it…...