Sailor Pete Shierny is fighting for boaties' rights in Auckland Council-owned areas after a hostile "get out" message from Westhaven Marina.

The world's fastest ship looked menacingly quick, even at berth, on a brief stopover in Wellington yesterday.

Hemi Anisi goes to work with a gun - and a wary outlook for pirates.

Regular readers of the Marine page will no doubt have noticed that many of the new craft we feature do not originate on these shores.

Recreational fishers face significant bag or size limit restrictions under all three options revealed for managing the depleted Snapper 1 fishery from October 1.

A 29-year-old man who died when he was swept off rocks while fishing at a notorious Whangarei spot yesterday has been named as Mario Openshaw.

New Zealand officials are tempering expectations ahead of make-or-break talks to establish the world's largest marine reserve in Antarctica this week.

Most sailors gearing up for next month's 470 world championships will be hitting the water as they fine-tune their preparations but not Jo Aleh - instead, she'll be riding some of the most demanding stages of this year's Tour de France.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is reviewing how it notifies the public about oil spills after a refuelling accident went unreported last week.

Danielle Wright takes a look underneath the sea at the Auckland War Memorial Museum's Moana - My Ocean exhibition.

One part of the ceremony that did hit the right note was the moving video tribute to Artemis sailor and British Olympian Andrew Simpson, who died on San Francisco Bay two months ago in a training accident.

He prefers to remain behind the scenes, but this week regatta director Iain Murray imposed himself as the central figure in the 34th America's Cup by taking the fate of the event into his own hands.

The father of an 18-year-old on board the missing American schooner Nina believes it may be just days from making port in Australia.

An Air Force Orion will today perform another aerial search for missing vintage American schooner Nina.

Mark Tucker will never know how much money he lost during the darkest days of the Rena disaster.

One of the seven passengers on a vintage yacht missing in heavy seas off New Zealand had a deep-rooted fear of drowning at sea, which he laid bare in an eerie premonition.

An $11 million fund has been launched to compensate those who lost money during the Rena disaster.

An Air Force Orion is searching near Norfolk Island today for missing vintage American schooner Nina.

The sister of the captain of the missing yacht Nina says the worst possible outcome would be for the crew to be lost at sea forever and to never know what happened.

The rescue operation for the American schooner Nina resumed this morning at 9.30am.