- Yachting and associated images

1. 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 13586

2. 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

3. 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 13588

4. 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 13589

5. 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
Image ID 13544

6. 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
Image ID 13525

7. MAHALO, a Nordhavn76 motor yacht, outbound from Auckland. She is 23.24m (76’3”) loa. Overtaken by the yacht ILEX.
Date: 24 April 2024
Image ID 13515

8. 2024 HARBOUR CLASSIC YACHT RACE - entrants passing the volcanic Rangitoto Island.
Date: 9 March 2024
Image ID 13415

9. 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
Image ID 13416

10. 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
Image ID 13405

11. 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
Image ID 13084

12. 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
Image ID 12974

13. "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
Image ID 12975

14. 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
Image ID 12939

15. 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
Image ID 12898

16. 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
Image ID 12899

17. ARIKI (A3) built in 1905, a gaff cutter built by the renowned Logan brothers of Auckland.
Date: 10 February 2023
Image ID 12888

18. 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
Image ID 12878

19. 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
Image ID 12869

20. 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
Image ID 12870

21. JANICE OF WYOMING, inbound at Auckland.
Date: 17 January 2023
Image ID 12871

22. OPTIMIST racing, Narrow Neck Beach (Wakatere Yacht Club), Auckland.
Date: 22 December 2022
Image ID 12789

23. 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
Image ID 12723

24. 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
Image ID 12724

25. 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
Image ID 12555

26. 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
Image ID 12556

27. LION NEW ZEALAND (nearest camera), one of the late Sir Peter Blake's winning round-the-world race yachts, heads outbound to the Americas Cup race courses, Auckland.
Date: 12 March 2021
Image ID 12170

28. EMIRATES TEAM NZ practices foiling techniques in the Rangitoto Channel as INEOS TEAM UK waits for the call to the start box during racing in the Prada Cup series, Auckland, NZ.
Date: 13 February 2021
Image ID 12124

29. INEOS TEAM UK - skippered by Sir Ben Ainslie, seen during practice for the Prada Cup series in Auckland, the racing to determine the challenger for the grand prize, the Americas Cup.
Date: 13 February 2021
Image ID 12161

30. LUNA ROSSI PRADA PIRELLI - AC75 at speed, manoeuvres among spectator craft prior to racing in the Prada Cup series, Auckland, NZ.
Date: 13 February 2021
Image ID 12171

31. 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
Image ID 12449

32. INEOS TEAM UK - skippered by Sir Ben Ainslie, seen during practice for the Prada Cup series in Auckland, the racing to determine the challenger for the grand prize, the Americas Cup.
Date: 29 October 2020
Image ID 12159

33. INEOS TEAM UK - skippered by Sir Ben Ainslie, seen during practice for the Prada Cup series in Auckland, the racing to determine the challenger for the grand prize, the Americas Cup.
Date: 29 October 2020
Image ID 12160

34. 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
Image ID 12321

35. 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
Image ID 12383

36. CHECKMATE (NZL 042, a Melges 40), off Devonport, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 2 October 2020
Image ID 12435

37. 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
Image ID 12446

38. 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
Image ID 12281

39. 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
Image ID 12434

40. 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
Image ID 12273

41. 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
Image ID 12274

42. 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
Image ID 12334

43. ATHENS GLORY (2003/75484grt/81171dwt/IMO 9247766, ex-NYK ATHENA) at 299m is the largest container ship to call at Auckland. She sailed in today following an earlier call at the port of...
Date: 12 September 2020
Image ID 12078

44. WATCHMAN - the patrol/committee boat of Auckland's Ponsonby Cruising Club, based at Westhaven Marina.
Date: 5 September 2020
Image ID 12320

45. 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
Image ID 12447

46. STEINLAGER II - a Bruce Farr-designed yacht. Skippered by Peter Blake, she won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race and line honours in the 1989 Fastnet Race. She was the only yacht to ever...
Date: 2 August 2020
Image ID 12257

47. SPEARHEAD (9219) an Elliott 1050 heads WAKA (8907) a Thompson 850, during racing offshore from the Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland.
Date: 25 July 2020
Image ID 12338

48. 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
Image ID 12439

49. THELMA (A10) - Built in 1897, and rare in that she was built outside New Zealand but designed by Arch Logan, the gaff-rigged Thelma was for many years seen racing in Mediterranean waters before she...
Date: 27 January 2020
Image ID 11952

50. MOANA CHIEF (2011/IMO 9516741/18358grt/23305dwt/1740TEU, ex-HANSA LUDWIGSBURG) - China Navigation's New Zealand-registered approaches Auckland this afternoon providing a backdrop to some...
Date: 16 January 2020
Image ID 11941

51. MOANA CHIEF (2011/IMO 9516741/18358grt/23305dwt/1740TEU, ex-HANSA LUDWIGSBURG) - China Navigation's New Zealand-registered approaches Auckland this afternoon providing a backdrop to some...
Date: 16 January 2020
Image ID 11942