Innehållsförteckning för October 2016 från Boating NZ

THE NEW DICKEY Semifly 45 takes the Dickey range to new levels of luxury and performance. Designed as a serious offshore sports fisher, the SF45 continues to offer all the refinements owners and fans of the Dickey brand have come to expect. With two cabins downstairs and options for a third, plus a full-size bathroom, seven adults can be accommodated in style. The wheelhouse boasts twin luxury helm seats, a large U-shaped social lounger, bar leaner and galley. Additional seating is optional in the rear cockpit, which can also be configured to include a BBQ island, bait station, game-chairs and an array of custom rod holders and accessories. Storage space includes an allowance for additional water toys. Other notable features include twin Volvo IPS 600 drives with joystick docking control,…

Smuggler Fast Rescue Tender SMUGGLER MARINE HAS launched the Smuggler 1120 Fast Rescue Tender, built for Coastguard Whangaroa. Visitors to the Auckland On Water Boat Show will be able to see this newest addition to the Coastguard fleet, an 11m RIB designed to operate on Northland’s east coast as far as the Three Kings Islands. Powered by two Volvo D4 260hp diesel sterndrives, the Smuggler 1120 is expected to perform exceptionally well in any conditions. www.smugglermarine.co.nz Students building careers at Rayglass HOWICK COLLEGE STUDENTS Nick Mackenzie (17) and Jayden Prentice (16) are building what they hope will be bright careers at top New Zealand boat manufacturer, Rayglass Boats. The students, two of the first to take advantage of a new School to Work programme, spend the first two days of…

It was off the scale. At its strongest I guessed 85-90 knots. It was blowing so hard I couldn’t stand up without holding on. Mostly I was inside the boat or hatchway. If I was on deck I held on or crawled. In conditions like this the sea is blown around so much it feels like it is raining all the time. The waves weren’t particularly high to begin with; if they get big and are close together, that’s when they can roll you. My hurricane experience on Astral Express during my solo circumnavigation occurred in 2005. I relied on weather communication from New Zealand via VHF but with modern satellite communication and weather information from the internet, getting yourself into a storm shouldn’t happen. I had plans to follow…

Have they all gone mad? It certainly looks like it to casual observers, seeing these radio control sailors clutching their transmitters and sailing their ‘toy boats’ for long periods of time. They seem to be in a trance, strolling backwards and forward along the edge of a lake in absolute silence. But suddenly they’re shouting at each other: “Starboard!” “Protest! Number 84!” They’re sailing, but they never get wet. Welcome to the world of International One Metres (IOM). “No, no,” says my husband, Neil. “First, they’re not toy boats. They are serious racing machines. Five thousand dollars new! Second, you have to have your wits about you to race these One Metres. They wouldn’t be doing it if they weren’t enjoying the intense competition that radio control racing creates!” Intense…

"The basic version is a simple, entrylevel boat…" Australia’s Whittley Boats is best known for its cruisers – familysized cabin boats with sterndrives. But the company also builds a range of outboard-powered craft, including the entry-level CW 1600, now available in New Zealand. The five-metre CW 1600 (Clear Water) is one of the Whittley models Bensemann Boating Centre is marketing in New Zealand. It represents a sector that’s no longer well-represented locally: modestly-sized, affordable GRP cuddy cabin boats. Such craft were once the mainstay of power-boating in this country, but there are now few locally-built competitors for the Whittley. The basic version is a simple, entry-level boat, but the factory offers a comprehensive range of equipment options. With an allup towing weight of around 700kg, the CW 1600 is a…

"The sedan styling not only looks sporty, it appeals on so many other levels. " Riviera’s latest Sport Yacht, the impressive 5400, takes the boating lifestyle very seriously. Designed around the needs and wants of modern launch owners, the Riviera 5400 Sport Yacht is superbly laid out for social interaction and easy living. Riviera’s Sport Yacht family has been a strong seller for the Australian motoryacht manufacturer and the new 5400SY incorporates many new features and evolutionary improvements over earlier SY models. The sedan styling not only looks sporty, it appeals on so many other levels. Unlike flybridge designs, the helm station is on the same level as the living spaces, so there’s no danger of the helmsman missing out on the fun. The cockpit and platform enjoy excellent flow…

“The main difference between the 41.1 and its predecessor is it’s lost a bit of weight...” Of course it is only since the 1980s that the brand has become a powerhouse, which now exports hundreds of cruising yachts, cruiser-racers and powerboats around the world. The latest model to land on our shores is the 12.4 metre Oceanis 41.1, an update of the Oceanis 41. The hull design is by French naval architects Finot-Conq and has the features you would expect from the marque: plenty of beam and volume, a generous cockpit and a semi-chine, which increases the boat’s form stability when it is heeled. The major difference between the 41.1 and its predecessor is it’s lost a bit of weight — more than 600kg, actually. New Zealand agent Conrad Gair…

"A combination of strength and reserve" The proximity of Image’s Invercargill factory to the excellent testing grounds of Foveaux Strait, Milford Sound and the lakes of Central Otago, combined with its reputation for excellent build quality, has seen the company take a growing presence in the highly competitive alloy powerboat industry. The Image Pontoon 7.08 is the latest addition to the now 15-strong Image Boats range and marks a distinct departure from their usual chined alloy hulls. Designer-builder of the new boat, Dean Wilkes, has drawn on more than 35 years’ experience in the design and production of alloy boats to create a unique package aimed firmly at his loyal outdoor-focused clientele and commercial operators who want the robust construction, seakeeping ability, and stability a pontoon boat configuration offers. Each…

“There’s nothing complicated about it.” Wayne Ormandy describes himself as a novice in sailing but he seemed pretty relaxed when we met for a sail at the Tasman Bay Cruising Club, Nelson. His new yacht Phantasea, the first Hanse 315 in New Zealand, is near the marina ramp, prime spot, and moored stern-to so that stepping aboard on the lowered transom is easy. “It’s proving to be a nice easy boat to learn,” Wayne says. “There’s nothing complicated about it. For people who want to become proficient sailors, it’s ideal because it’s easy to handle but there’s enough performance there to practice with and improve your skills.” The Hanse range is built in Germany and designed by Judel/Vrolijk Design, a team which prides itself on creating boats based on simple,…

September’s caption winner “Bob, there’s a fish, honest! I saw it just a minute ago.” Congratulations to: M. Ironside “So what size hook do you use for these whitebait normally?” Runner-up: Peter Raynard De Villiers Yacht Design 525 alloy cruising catamaran SINCE THE LAUNCH of its successful 62-foot (19m) alloy cruising catamaran design in 2009, De Villiers Yacht Design has fielded many enquiries for a smaller sister. A new 52.5-foot (16m) cat design is the company’s response. A true cruising boat optimised for blue water passage-making, this design builds on concepts proven in the 62-foot Cruising Cat, which has now logged over 50,000 nautical miles. The 525 Alloy SailCat features six watertight bulkheads, a low centre of effort ketch rig that’s easily managed by a couple and unmatched underwing (bridgedeck)…

Following a prompting from my conscience that I should try to help, I filled my yacht Caro Vita with boxes of nails, bolts, roofing screws, tools, seeds and whatever building equipment I could get and rounded up a crew to sail from Auckland to SavuSavu. Asking where the greatest need was, I was told by locals that most places had made good progress but Koro Island had largely been forgotten as it was off the beaten track and didn’t have big resorts or much tourism happening to draw attention to its plight. We headed straight there and visited three villages on the worst-hit side – Navaga, Tavua and Nabasovi. We moored in Dere Bay which is where ex-pats have built holiday homes and have freehold property. Even strongly-built Westerners’ houses…

Keeping Active MERCURY MARINE’S ACTIVE Trim has a patented integrated GPSbased control system which takes into account both boat speed and rpm when deciding on the ideal trim position. Active Trim has five selectable trim profiles that accommodate nearly any boat application, so there’s no need to manually enter trim settings vs. rpm. This means Active Trim can be used on high-performance boats as well as family runabouts, with drivers able to easily disengage and re-engage the system as needed, just by using the manual trim buttons. Owners can simply run their boat and select the best profile for any application. They can then personalise Active Trim to their driving style and/or compensate for changes in boat load, operator preference and weather conditions. Aussie fishing expert Lee Rayner is sold…

Napier aluminium boatbuilder Senator Boats is happy to customise any model in its extensive range to meet the specific needs of its customers. On a sparkling Nelson day with snow on the mountains and nary a breath of wind, a Senator RH770 named Savage seemed restless. D’Urville Island was on the horizon, just a millpond away, and it’s a place where Savage’s owners, Vaughan and Suzanne Savage, regularly go for a weekend’s fishing and diving. Even in dirty conditions, Vaughan says, he can be at D’Urville Island in two hours. His favourite cruising mode when fully loaded with four adults and dive and fishing gear is 45kph at 3500rpm. A typical trip to the top of D’Urville Island with visit to Port Hardy and general exploring is usually eight to…

When Boating New Zealand hit the water in 1986, it was a boating magazine owned by a boatie: a young yachtie from Nelson named Bruce Laybourn. He put 350hp of boyish enthusiasm on the back, filled the tank with his entrepreneurial courage and launched it into salt water. Laybourn was on a clear course to take a power and sail boat magazine to the market. His knowledgeable, bold writers included plywood boat designer John Spencer and Bilgewater, whose cartoons and stories in Scrub Valley Yarns reflected his readers’ private catastrophes. Boating NZ quickly became New Zealand’s most prominent boating magazine, and has chronicled the hey-days and hard times ever since. 1986 Boating NZ’s first issue, September 1986, led with the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, featuring a Davidson 55 named Starlight…