Sailing

New Zealanders first started building boats out of necessity, as they lived in a country totally surrounded by sea.

When American western novelist Zane Grey came to the Bay of Islands in 1920 he dubbed the waters 'the angler's El Dorado'.

Most New Zealand top sailors can trace their sailing roots back to the ugly little dinghy called the P class.

The rum race is a weekly fixture on the calendar of the true-blue Kiwi yachtie.