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New Zealand Boats, Sailing and Charters

For both experienced and beginner sailors, New Zealand offers a fantastic array of opportunities to explore new territory and get out onto the water, be it oceans, lakes or rivers.

Learn to sail at a sailing school in New Zealand. Sailing schools offer courses, day trips and cruises for locals and visitors alike wanting to improve their sailing skills. Sailing lessons are available in diverse boating environments around New Zealand, ideal for the experienced or novice sailor alike.

You can also charter motor boats, yachts and sailing boats for hours or days of cruising and sailing, or join organised boat cruises. Take a half-day, full-day or overnight boat tour. The choice is yours!

By boat, you can see areas of New Zealand not accessible or visible from the roads, as well as encounter marine and birdlife such as albatross, penguins, dolphins and seals. There is over 15,000 kilometres of New Zealand coastline for you to explore.

Many tour operators offer visitors the opportunity to combine sailing or cruising with activities such as fishing, diving and snorkelling, swimming with dolphins and seals, whale watching and bird watching.

Cruises or excursions can be as relaxed or as invigorating as you want them to be as many operators offer a range of sailing trips with the oppportunity to sit back as a passenger, become one of the crew or even skippering your own vessel.

The following areas of New Zealand are particularly popular for sailing, cruising and related activities:

• Hauraki Gulf, Auckland
• The Bay of Islands
• Tasman Bay and Abel Tasman National Park
• Marlborough Sounds
• Akaroa
• Otago Harbour
• Fiordland
• Lake Wakatipu

In these regions, you can find yourself sailing through glorious bays, island-studded gulfs and sheltered waterways, or exploring inland rivers and lakes.

Home to the America's Cup, Auckland is also known as the "City of Sails" and is home for over 100,000 privately owned yachts. Yachting is a way of life for many New Zealanders and 'boaties' take to the waters in many different types of vessel. In Auckland, you'll often see a small armada taking to the water for a sail on the Hauraki Gulf.

Competitive sailing and yacht building in New Zealand are world-class standard and New Zealand's famous sailors include Sir Peter Blake, Russell Coutts, Brad Butterworth and Grant Dalton...(search NZ boats, sailing and charters directory)

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