Coastguard’s Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade Campaign is back for summer and travelling to more locations than ever before. For the first time in the campaign’s seven years, two vans will be travelling from the Far North to the Deep South, heading…
The prospectus for the 2021 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show is now available. We are very excited at again being able to create a world-class exhibition for the New Zealand marine industry and planning is already well underway to ensure…
The organisers & owners of the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show were deeply saddened this week to learn that long-time exhibitor and NZ Boat Show Hall of Fame member Bob Tait had passed away after a long illness. Bob will…
With a great deal of regret, the owners and organisers of the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show today announce the official cancellation of the 2020 show. This will be first time in the show’s 65-year history that it has not…
Kiwis want tarakihi fishing quota cut significantly amid major concern over fisheries management Seventy percent of New Zealanders want the commercial fishing quota for tarakihi cut dramatically to help the country’s fish and chips favourite to recover, a new survey…
It's been a busy few weeks in the efforts to bring back abundance to our marine environment. With the disappointing decision to lower the total commercial catch of the depleted tarakihi by only 10%, the Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash…
A life on the ocean waves awaits 2019 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show winner, Eden Waddington who received his $250,000 Surtees 750 Game Fisher hand delivered from the Surtees team to the Marlborough Sounds.
This year one lucky Hutchwilco Boat Show New Zealand visitor WILL be taking home this epic Surtees / Yamaha grand prize package Cliff from Surtees gets out on the water and checks out some of the many awesome features of…
This year's Surtees/Yamaha Grand Prize package is the biggest boat show prize in the world, ever! Watch as Surtees CEO, Adam Dyck, shows off exactly what one lucky visitor to the 2018 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show is going to…
Fishing World’s Scott McDonnell spent a few days last week on our stunning $150,000 Surtees/Yamaha Grand Prize package: checking it out, catching a few fish and making this delightful video. Sit back, turn up the volume and imagine how good…