The sailors of New Zealand have spoken and we’ve listened.

You asked for a Kiwi-centric sailing magazine and Boating has delivered it in the form of New Zealand Yachting, a glossy, 144-page tribute to everything great about harnessing the wind to explore the majestic coastlines of God’s Own and beyond.

Inside this image-rich publication you’ll find inspiration and entertainment for the Christmas cruise and the year ahead with destination guides for the Bay of Islands, Hauraki Gulf and Marlborough Sounds, as well as your selection of New Zealand’s 10 most influential cruising sailors of all time.

Kerikeri kiwifruit grower Kerry Farrand talks about the magical five-year circumnavigation that saw him named Yachting New Zealand’s cruiser of 2012 while award winning Whangarei circumnavigators Alvah and Diana Simon share their top 10 places to cruise before you die.

And don’t miss our feature interview with 19-year-old EMI-contracted singer-songwriter Jamie McDell who dreams of buying back her father’s Farr 1220 to continue her own inspirational voyage through life.

For the racing sailors, there’s a special eight-page report on the ‘State of the Racing Nation’, we catch up Chris Dickson and Suzanne McFadden explores the courtship between Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa in our preview to the 34th America’s Cup.

There’s columns from Peter Montgomery, Alvah Simon and Lindsay Wright and much more besides, including a 14-page look at the yachts of 2013 including analysis of the bold design trends emerging from the major production yards of the world.

Standard cover price (incl GST): $19.90