Boating New Zealand

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Boating New ZealandTohatsu MFS150A: Its First In-House 150 Against Yamaha, Suzuki and Mercury Tohatsu's first in-house 150hp outboard is a higher-revving MFS140A. Here is how its weight and specifications compare with Yamaha, Suzuki and Mercury. Read the full story at Powerboat News.

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Boating New ZealandThe formative years: 1928-2004 This month signifies a major shift at Westhaven Marina, as the long-term licences for Piers AB to T expire, with all rights reverting to the owner, Auckland Council.

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Boating New ZealandYoung Azzurra, Federico Pilloni and Maddalena Spanu on the podium at Cico 2026 Cesare Barabino finishes fourth in the ILCA 7 Porto Cervo, 24 October 2026. The Italian Olympic Classes Championship (CICO), held in Naples from 21 October, came to a close today.

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Boating New ZealandSuper sonic sensor AIRMAR has introduced the TriSonic Smart Multisensor, the marine industry’s only ultrasonic speed sensor.

10.23

Boating New ZealandPredictWind Puts Boaters Back in Control of Their Starlink Data Offshore Marine weather forecaster PredictWind has released new data control modes for DataHub and DataHub Pro, following Starlink data changes.

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Boating New ZealandCoastal Classic grinds to a halt as Another Duchess, Motorboat III and Diablo retire The breeze faded to nothing north of Kawau on Friday evening, and the 2026 PIC Coastal Classic has slowed to a crawl.

10.23

Boating New ZealandRAD Propulsion: The Electric Outboard Maker Chasing £25 Million In June, Powerboat News covered two British companies building 300hp diesel outboards: Caudwell Marine with the AX300 and Cox Marine with the CXO300.

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Boating New ZealandCoastal Classic fleet lines up under grey skies, with Russell a long way off With 20 minutes to the start, the PIC Coastal Classic fleet is filling the harbour off Devonport. It’s ideal weather for a cruise up the coast. For a race to Russell, less so.

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Boating New ZealandEvery boat tracked live at Bay of Islands Sailing Week From the start gun in Opua to the last boat home, the 2027 fleet will report its position once a second, and anyone with a computer, tablet or phone can watch - live!

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Boating New ZealandSmarter power – no limits Dometic’s new 12V DC-DC charger offers ultra-Fast charging capability delivering up to 100A for extended adventures and rapidly charging large battery banks.

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay