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, 2022-10-26 04:50:42,
Diverse. That’s the way superyacht captain Matt Lovett sums up cruising New Zealand, and he would know. The lifelong sailor has had a 25 year career in the superyacht industry which has seen him sail 95 thousand miles across the world’s oceans…
Diverse. That’s the way superyacht captain Matt Lovett sums up cruising New Zealand, and he would know. The lifelong sailor has had a 25 year career in the superyacht industry which has seen him sail 95 thousand miles across the world’s oceans.
That wide-ranging career has its roots in early dinghy sailing exploits from the age of 12 on Auckland’s Manukau Harbour. Now based in New Zealand as captain of a 34 metre Royal Huisman yacht, Lovett is enjoying being back on New Zealand waters and sharing his love of his home coastlines.
“The first thing I tell other captains about visiting New Zealand is its diversity. New Zealand’s coastline offers sheltered cruising in everything from white sand, sub-tropical beach regions to deep fjords and even sub-antarctic islands,” says Lovett.
He highlights the east coast of the northernmost part of the North Island as his must-do destination for any cruising itinerary, with its white sand beaches and sheltered bays, and points out New Zealand offers the advantage of ever-changing attractions compared with the more usual cruising haunts of the world’s superyachts.
“It’s a remote destination compared with the usual cruising grounds of the…
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