Visitors to this year’s Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show in Auckland on May 13-16 will have the chance to win a huge selection of prizes including a $1000 kayak package every hour, a $7600 trip for two to Tonga and rides in one of the world’s fastest jet boats!
A $1000 Viking kayak package will be drawn every hour from 12 noon until the show closes on each of the four days. Each package consists of a 3.2m Viking Nemo kayak, a De Luxe seat, a standard paddle and a Hutchwilco multi-fit buoyancy vest and has a total retail value of … Details
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Before women’s Olympic match racing, before Ellen MacArthur, before the Yngling Girls – there was the Women’s Team.
The brainchild of 1992 America’s Cup winner and business maverick Bill Koch, the 1995 America3 women’s team brought together top female athletes from across the country, with an unprecedented goal; to race at the same level as the top male sailors in the most prestigious yacht race in the world – the America’s Cup.
On May 28 and 29, the team will reunite in San Diego, celebrating the 15th anniversary of their remarkable achievement. The weekend’s activities include a Friday sail with local junior sailors and a dinner Saturday night at the San Diego Yacht Club, honoring team founder Koch …Â Details
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Antigua – Well ocean rowing followers, there you have it… After 118 days of tracking our valiant rowers across the waves, it’s all over. Last weekend saw the final rower in the Atlantic Rowing Race, Sean McGowan, complete his crossing and row triumphantly into English Harbour to be met by a welcome fit for the first Irish man to row an ocean solo. Â
It’s been an incredible event, and looking back it’s hard to believe that it’s six months since I traveled out to La Gomera to see the start of the race, only to return – leaving the crews still on dry land, and with a further month of waiting before they were able to set off … Details
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