Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. The South Pacific’s leading full service superyacht brokerage and support provider, 37South is delighted to announce the arrival of Ben Osborne as director and stakeholder in the company. Osborne comes on board having acquired a shareholding in the company from co-founder Allan Jouning. Jouning, who set up the company with Phil Tomlinson in 1988, retires his directorship to take a step back and focus on the client side of the business in yacht sales and charter, while Osborne will lead the company in its continued growth. “I am thrilled to be joining the 37South family,” says Osborne.… Read More

People who buy tickets to the 2019 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show online will automatically go into the draw to win a Viking Kayaks ultimate fishing kayak prize package worth over $8000! This prize includes a fully kitted-out Viking Profish Reload, complete with a powerful electric motor, a professionally installed Raymarine Dragonfly 4 PRO multi-function display and much more. Those who buy tickets to the 2019 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show on-line will go in the draw to win an amazing $8000-plus Viking Profish Reload prize package, complete with a powerful new Bixpy electric motor as well as a Raymarine… Read More

ENL Group has strengthened its presence in the Auckland region by opening a new Furuno focused showroom in Westhaven. Situated in the heart of Westhaven Marina, the new purpose built 120sqm showroom will be co-located with R Marine Flagship at 23 Westhaven Drive, and will be open from Monday-Friday 8.30am-5.00pm. Targeting the superyacht and launch market the showroom will have the largest display of marine electronics in Australasia. It will be supported by the largest pool of specialized marine electronic engineers and the customer care team via the Furuno New Zealand (ENL) head office in Glenfield. ENL Group Managing Director… Read More

Pictured L to R: Ed Slack of IBI, James Ward of award sponsor Marine Resources, and Peter Busfield of NZ Marine  At an awards evening held on Tuesday 13 November in Amsterdam, the NZ Marine and Composites Industry Training Organisation was named the best apprenticeship training programme in the world. The Boat Builder Awards are the global marine industry’s leading awards and are organised by METStrade – the world’s largest business to business marine equipment show – and publishers of IBI Magazine, Boating Communications. The widely-recognised honour sees nominees acknowledged across ten categories of business achievement. NZ Marine and Composites… Read More

New Zealand’s leading manufacturer and distributor of quality marine safety equipment, Hutchwilco Limited, has acquired Actron Fire Services. Based in Westhaven, Actron Fire Services is a specialist in marine fire safety requirements servicing the greater Auckland region. The company specialises in hand operated fire protection services and related safety equipment for commercial, marine and domestic use. Hutchwilco Operations Manager Bernard Orme, says the acquisition of Actron is part of a long-term growth strategy for the company and further strengthens Hutchwilco’s position in Westhaven and the greater marine safety sector. Hutchwilco has acquired Westhaven based Actron Fire Services “We are continuing… Read More

ENL Group has developed a new world leading digital log book for the New Zealand commercial fishing industry, designed to meet the coming digital monitoring regulations. The system, Olrac, has been independently developed by OLSPS Marine & ENL to offer an e-logbook that will meet Fisheries NZ requirements whilst giving vessel owners, managers, operators any information they require in a simple to use and understand format. ENL has chosen the Olrac system as they are one of the pioneers of E-logbooks, with their systems already used worldwide, and integrates this with the GPR and camera technology from Marine Instruments, to… Read More

The NZ Marine Boatbuilders & Refit Group and the NZ Marine Export Group have released a guide for yachts destined for the Pacific nation, including never-before-released information around the 2020-2021 grand regattas. With a number of offshore visiting yachts already booking berths in New Zealand for the period of the 36th America’s Cup in 2020 and 2021, a comprehensive guide to visiting the host nation’s waters has been released. The 2020 edition of Destination & Cruising New Zealand contains extensive information on the places to visit, marinas and regulations for foreign-flagged yachts visiting New Zealand, as well as newly released… Read More

Australian marine crane and davit specialist, Davco, has released a completely new range of Slimline foredeck cranes. Fully redesigned and built using advanced CNC routing, the new aluminium crane range has been designed to complement Davco’s class-leading hydraulic swim platforms. All cranes in the new range have a longer reach and feature a unique no-cover design, making them both quieter when in operation and easier to manoeuvre around on the foredeck. To ensure a rust-free foredeck, Davco’s new hydraulic cranes are the only range with a full 316 stainless steel hydraulic cylinder. And to make launching and retrieving the tender… Read More

Rayglass Boats, New Zealand’s most successful manufacturer of luxury GRP pleasure boats, will run this year’s popular THE RAYGLASS EXPERIENCE Open Weekend and Factory Tour at their Mt Wellington, Auckland headquarters on Friday, September 7 until Sunday, September 9. The Open Weekend will enable people to view all of Rayglass’s multi-award winning Legend range of trailer boats as well as the popular new 3500 Sedan cruiser and a selection of internationally-renowned Protector RIBs. The Factory Tour will enable people to see Rayglass boats in various stages of construction, meet the crew responsible for building the boats to such a high… Read More

The third annual Fiji/NZ Trade day will be held on Thursday 26 July – Friday 27 July 2018 at the Port Denarau Yacht Club, Fiji. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your company alongside some of New Zealand’s leading marine companies! Our goal is to inform visiting cruising yachts and superyachts located in Fiji in July, and key influencers, port authorities and Fiji Customs, of the benefits to yachts to visit New Zealand during their South Pacific cruise.  Our previous Fiji/NZ events have demonstrably influenced yachts to visit New Zealand. Venue Location – Port Denarau Marina – http://denaraumarina.com/ Exhibitors welcome… Read More