Recreation & Sport

Rum Races, Kiwi Yachtie Tradition

The rum race is a weekly fixture on the calendar of the true-blue Kiwi yachtie. Hundreds of people skip off work an hour or so early on a Thursday (or Friday) afternoon to crew on keelboats, like the Stewart 34, in the local yacht club's rum race. The prize today is what it always has been, a bottle of rum - but for the rum racers it could just as easily be the Auld Mug itself. It is the epitome of a nation mad on sailing - where the number of boats per head of population is higher than any other country in the world.

Further information

Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
Harold Bennett
Phone +64 9 360 6808
Email: hbennett@rnzys.org.nz

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