New to sailing? As the Prada Cup resumes, here’s how to talk like a pro. When I was 10, my mum made my brother and me join the local sailing club. It was a favourite pastime of families in Kerikeri, and my brother was actually quite good. I lasted only a few weeks before being … Read more
An extract from Across the Risen Sea, the new climate-fiction novel from junior fiction superstar Bren MacDibble. We’re off the coast of Australia. Survivors of a calamitous sea-level rise live in small island settlements, gardening and fishing and scavenging in wet-to-the-waist skyscrapers. There are sinkholes, storms and massive sharks, and lots of crocs. In this … Read more
The Maritime Museum’s volunteers share what the ocean means to them, and why sailing is more than an elite boy’s club. “This one would have been home built,” James Clarke says, pointing to a wooden sailboat on display at New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui A Tangaroa. This particular wing houses the museum’s collection … Read more