- Yachting and associated images

1. MOJO (Sail No. 4280) - PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland. She came third across the line in Division A class.
Date: 12 March 2025
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2. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) - PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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3. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) - PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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4. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) seen during the PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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5. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) seen during the PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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6. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) seen during the PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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7. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) seen during the PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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8. CARRERA (Sail No. 9656) seen during the PIC Insurance Brokers Wednesday Series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2025
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9. Wednesday evenings in Auckland generally sees yachts out racing on the Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 12 March 2025
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10. WEDNESDAY EVENING YACHT RACING on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 12 March 2025
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11. HORTENSE - a sailing yacht launched in 2009 by French builders JFA Yachts in Concarneau, Brittany, the 27.5m superyacht is seen berthed in Auckland’s Silo Marina. She has a top speed of 12kts and...
Date: 13 December 2024
Image ID 13656

12. STEINLAGER 2 - one of the most famous yachts in the world, and when skippered by the late, great, Sir Peter Blake, won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race, taking line-honours on every...
Date: 25 October 2024
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13. STEINLAGER 2 - one of the most famous yachts in the world, and when skippered by the late, great, Sir Peter Blake, won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race, taking line-honours on every...
Date: 25 October 2024
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14. STEINLAGER 2 - one of the most famous yachts in the world, and when skippered by the late, great, Sir Peter Blake, won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race, taking line-honours on every...
Date: 25 October 2024
Image ID 13587

15. STEINLAGER 2 - one of the most famous yachts in the world, and when skippered by the late, great, Sir Peter Blake, won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race, taking line-honours on every...
Date: 25 October 2024
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16. ISTRA ACE (2007/41000gt/12200dwt/IMO 9318503) inbound at Auckland from Suva gets a closeup look at Emirates Team New Zealand race yacht heading out into the Hauraki Gulf for more testing. ISTAR ACE...
Date: 7 June 2024
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17. MAERSK RUBICON (2013/IMO 9632480/66347dwt/4622TEU/ex-KMARIN AQUA, HANJIN AQUA) on approach to a busy Auckland Harbour, direct from Los Angeles. Built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries in S. Korea, she...
Date: 11 May 2024
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18. MAHALO, a Nordhavn76 motor yacht, outbound from Auckland. She is 23.24m (76’3”) loa. Overtaken by the yacht ILEX.
Date: 24 April 2024
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19. AS CALIFORNIA (2008/28340gt/39446dwt/IMO 9342695/TEU 2824, ex-OCEAN BLUE, KOTA PERMATA) inbound to Auckland after a short coastal passage south from Marsden Point, is greeted by entrants in the 2024...
Date: 9 March 2024
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20. 2024 HARBOUR CLASSIC YACHT RACE - entrants passing the volcanic Rangitoto Island.
Date: 9 March 2024
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21. PALAWAN (2023/18491gt/24744dwt/TEU1930/IMO 9937402) inbound from Melbourne, Australia as some of New Zealand's future potential world-beater yachties take to the water from Narrow Neck Beach.
Date: 3 March 2024
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22. KETA (2003/26061gt/30450dwt/IMO 9225782/2226TEU, ex-Gsl KETA, DELMAS KETA, MOL RAINBOW, LOUIS DELMAS), heading for Wellington, having to negotiate the fleets of weekend sailors on the Waitematā...
Date: 10 June 2023
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23. "TE REHUTAI" - Emirates Team New Zealand's AC-75 class boat, steaming along like an express train (with sound to match too!!! Wish I could have recorded it). It's reported that she regularly hits in...
Date: 29 March 2023
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24. ATLANTIC DAWN (2013/5460gt/4200dwt/IMO 9671450/261TEU) - a general cargo vessel, called into Auckland for bunkers on her way from Lyttelton to Oakland, California. She was built by Partner Stocznia z...
Date: 29 March 2023
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25. ETHEL (D31) - built by the Logan Brothers in 1896. Launched as a cutter but during her years she has been a converted to a yawl, used as a refrigerated fish carrier, a fishing boat with an engine and...
Date: 19 March 2023
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26. NZL 41 a former Americas Cup race yacht, is today operated by Explore Group providing sailing tours of Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 17 February 2023
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27. NZL 41 a former Americas Cup race yacht, is today operated by Sail NZ of Auckland as a tourist venture on the city's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 17 February 2023
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28. ARIKI (A3) built in 1905, a gaff cutter built by the renowned Logan brothers of Auckland.
Date: 10 February 2023
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29. WIND SPIRIT - a 24m fractional rigged ketch built in Auckland by Lloyd Stevenson Yachts. She was launched in September 2022. Although registered in Jaluit (Marshall Islands) her home port os Brest in...
Date: 8 February 2023
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30. JANICE OF WYOMING, inbound at Auckland.
Date: 17 January 2023
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31. LION NEW ZEALAND and STEINLAGER 2 - two of the finest yachts ever built, formerly skippered by New Zealand's legendary yachtsman, the late Sir Peter Blake (Blakey) who sailed Lion New Zealand to 2nd...
Date: 26 January 2023
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32. STEINLAGER 2 and LION NEW ZEALAND - two of the finest yachts ever built, both formerly skippered by New Zealand's legendary yachtsman, the late Sir Peter Blake (Blakey) who sailed Lion New Zealand to...
Date: 26 January 2023
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33. OPTIMIST racing, Narrow Neck Beach (Wakatere Yacht Club), Auckland.
Date: 22 December 2022
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34. Emirates Team New Zealand's AC40 returning to the team base in the Viaduct after another trial session on the Hauraki Gulf and Waitemata Harbour. The AC40 is the class of boat to contest the next...
Date: 26 October 2022
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35. Emirates Team New Zealand's AC40 during trials in the Rangitoto Channel. The AC40 is the class of boat to contest the next America's Cup.
Date: 26 October 2022
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36. CHARTREUSE, a private sailboat, arrives in Auckland.
Date: 6 June 2005
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37. TRINIDAD TRADER (2015/9932gt/13054dwt/IMO 9675808/1102TEU. Renamed CONTSHIP REX in Nov 2022 and NPDL TAHITI in 2023) arrives in Auckland from Sydney, passes North Head to sound three sets of five long...
Date: 5 May 2022
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38. TRINIDAD TRADER (2015/9932gt/13054dwt/IMO 9675808/1102TEU. Renamed CONTSHIP REX in Nov 2022 and NPDL TAHITI in 2023) arrives in Auckland from Sydney, passes North Head to sound three sets of five long...
Date: 5 May 2022
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39. ADRIA ACE (2009/41009grt/12300dwt/IMO 9446881) sailing for Wellington finds a small yacht unable to clear the shipping lane until local yacht club officials come to the rescue..
Date: 6 December 2020
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40. ROA - built in the late 1920's/early 1930's by Sam Ford, was once a mussel dredge for the Coromandel Mussel Dredging Company passes the yacht ALLERGY with the yacht HYSTERIA in the background.
Date: 5 September 2020
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41. AMERICAN MAGIC - New York Yacht Club's AC-75 entry in the Prada Cup/Americas Cup held in Auckland in 2020/2021. AMERICAN MAGIC was eliminated in the Prada Cup races.
Date: 24 September 2020
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42. THE BLACK PEARL (9117, a Young 13m) on port tack, SURETHING (8041, an Elliot 12) and WAKA (8907, a Thompson 850) on starboard) in close quarter racing off the Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland.
Date: 25 July 2020
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43. CHECKMATE (NZL 042, a Melges 40), off Devonport, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 2 October 2020
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44. IDA (A11) - a gaff-rigged cutter built in 1895 by C&W Bailey was recently fully restored by Wayne Olsen and Mike Smith at the Horizon Boats shipyard at Stillwater. IDA had previously been Australian...
Date: 19 September 2020
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45. NEW ZEALAND OCEAN RACING's VO65, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland. Waterline length: 20m (65.61ft), overall length: 22.14 m (72.63 ft)
Date: 10 October 2020
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46. SPEARHEAD (9219) an Elliott 1050 heads WAKA (8907) a Thompson 850, during racing offshore from the Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland.
Date: 25 July 2020
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47. TE AIHE - Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 seen during trialling on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland in preparation for the upcoming Americas Cup regatta.
Date: 17 September 2020
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48. NEW ZEALAND OCEAN RACING's VO65 heading home following a day trialling on the Hauraki Gulf. For more info: https://nzoceanracing.com/
Date: 21 October 2020
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49. WATCHMAN - the patrol/committee boat of Auckland's Ponsonby Cruising Club, based at Westhaven Marina.
Date: 5 September 2020
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50. THELMA (A10) - Built in 1897 by Arch Logan, the gaff-rigged Thelma was for many years seen racing in Mediterranean waters before she was restored and shipped home to New Zealand in 2002 by new owners....
Date: 19 September 2020
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51. TE AIHE - Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 scorching up the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland during trials for the upcoming Americas Cup regatta.
Date: 17 September 2020
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