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BOAT WORLD

BOAT WORLD

POWER HOUSE • As the New Zealand boating market becomes increasingly sophisticated, so the size and scope of the type of boats being sold here is changing. This new appreciation and demand for craft at the super-luxury end of the spectrum is expressed in boats such as the Azimut S7.

WAIKAWA EXPANDS • Boat owners keen to base their vessels in the Marlborough Sounds will soon have access to a new, fully-spec’d facility following a major, multi-million dollar extension of the Waikawa Marina.

LUXURY VESSELS AND MARINE INNOVATION AT AUCKLAND BOAT SHOW • This year’s Auckland Boat Show in October will feature luxury launches and marine innovation.

Auckland’s Newest Marine Precinct • THERE’S A WHOLE NEW BOATING HUB TAKING SHAPE RIGHT BESIDE THE TAMAKI RIVER WITH EASY ACCESS TO THE SPARKLING WATERS OF THE WAITEMATA HARBOUR AND HAURAKI GULF.

CABIN FEVER • It is somewhat unusual to review a boat of such relatively modest dimensions with inboard diesel power rather than outboards, but the Swedish-built Paragon 25 Cabin has a 320hp Volvo Penta turbodiesel neatly tucked away under the cockpit sole.

DEEP SOUTH DISCOVERY • Bruce and Raewyn Bartley took their Jeanneau 57 yacht Mimu to Fiordland and Stewart Island, completing a figure-eight circumnavigation of New Zealand along the way.

CONFESSIONS OF A CHARTER SKIPPER • Sharing the joy of sailing with others was my privilege as an occasional charter skipper for 16 years on Sydney Harbour, recalls Kevin Green.

BOAT BUSINESS

BOAT BUSINESS

Slip into a slider! • They may look more like Christmas Tree decorations than fishing lures, but kabura or slider jigs do the business on snapper – and a whole range of other species.

SLIME TIME ! • Setting off on Slime – a 13.5m John Hughes extended Blade Runner catamaran – is akin to accelerating down the runway in a big jet. You’re thrust back into your seating position, thrilled by the raw power.

Best-kept secret • Lesley and Alex Stone venture all the way up the creek to the market town of Matakana.

SEA JEWELS • Considered an exotic delicacy in many parts of the world, paua meat is an important part of New Zealand’s seafood exports. But an even more select market covets the jewellery created from the animals’ iridescent shells – and the pearls they cultivate.

Simrad Yachting turns 75 • Simrad Yachting celebrates boating’s ability to bring people together.

Knowing your ropes and rode • Let’s get the first question out of the way: When it is ‘rope’ and when is it ‘rode’?

BOAT BLING

RETRO BOATS

Lived his dream • Many of Auckland’s boating community were saddened to hear that boatbuilder, surveyor and sailor Harry Pope had recently passed the bar. Fortunately, I’d previously spent time with Pope aboard his yacht Wolf with my tape recorder and this is his story.

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Pleiades pride • Noel Priar was a boatman until the end. Even in his 80s, his rheumy old eyes would get a gleam on when someone dropped by to talk boats, or another refit job pulled into his backyard boat slip.

Riverhead reflections • The history of Riverhead is reflected in this fascinating trip up the top arm of the Waitematā Harbour.

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 his real job was principally a scientist. He had a leading role in the wartime and post-war Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, some of the work...