The trial of a Bluff woman who has denied charges laid after the sinking of her fishing boat Easy Rider last year will probably take one week.

Friends and colleagues have paid respects to Kiwi journalist Rebecca Davidson, who was killed in a boat collision in the Seychelles this weekend.

Lifejackets saved the lives of boaties in two water emergencies as people took to the lakes and seas this weekend.

The black marlin took the chartered sport-fishing boat's line in the Gulf of Panama, capsized it then got away.

Orpheus Beaumont was named after New Zealand's worst shipwreck. When she was born, her mother was grieving for Orpheus' teenage brother - presumed drowned in the disaster.

The Coastguard is urging boaties to stick to common safety practices during the city's 173rd Anniversary Day Regatta today after a plywood runabout sank in the Motuihe Channel yesterday.

A group of teenage boys have told of an hour-long rescue in which they pulled three struggling swimmers from ferocious seas.

A video of a speedboat dousing a burning vessel by swerving next to it has gone viral on the internet.

A coroner has recommended that boaties should be warned about the dangers of smoking cannabis.

The Bluff woman whose company owned the fishing boat Easy Rider, has been remanded again on charges relating to the vessel's sinking in March.

A Southland boat skipper shed tears as he recounted a Foveaux Strait fishing trip which turned to tragedy and ended in the death of his son and his best friend.

Boaties need to take responsibility to prevent more deaths at sea and remember what they are risking, a water safety expert says.

A boat which capsized in the Hauraki Gulf this morning, resulting in the deaths of two men, was probably overloaded and too small for the rough conditions.

An Auckland woman and her partner say being rescued from their stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean taught them to enjoy every moment of the future.

Terminally ill Troylane Tetai didn't have much time left, and he wanted to use the little he had to fish. But his life came to an end sooner than anyone was expecting.