Whangarei Maritime Festival

20/10/2025

🎉 Did you come to the Whangārei Maritime Festival? ⚓️
We’d love to hear what you thought! 💬

Your feedback helps us plan for an even better festival next year — and it also supports us in securing funding so we can keep bringing this event to you for free. 🙌

👉 Please take a couple of minutes to fill out our short survey: https://forms.gle/HqxpjY2iyxMqC3WUA
Thank you for helping us make the festival better every year! 💙

Thank you for coming to our event. We hope you had as much fun attending as we did organizing it. We want to hear your feedback so we can keep improving our logistics and content. (your answers will be anonymous).

16/10/2025

🌊 Did you miss our amazing Tales from the Sea?
A huge thank you to our fantastic sponsor, MAST Academy NZ, for making this inspiring session possible. 👏

And of course, a big shoutout to our incredible speakers who shared their adventures, insights, and salty tales!
You can check out the full lineup here 👉 https://www.whangareimaritimefestival.co.nz/tales-from-the-sea

15/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to all our RC Boat Race winners! 🏆🚤
What an awesome time we had in the Ray White Whangarei & Tutukaka & Marsden Cove Marina Kidz Zone — the competition was fierce, the boats were fast, and the smiles were even bigger! 😄💦

Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun — we can’t wait to see what you race next year! ⛵⚡

15/10/2025

🚤 What. A. Race!
If you missed The Great Whangarei Boat Yard Challenge 2025, you missed an afternoon of pure chaos and laughter on the river! 😆

Huge thanks to our awesome sponsors Mitre 10 MEGA Whangarei and Northland Waste Whangarei, and to all the brave teams who took up the challenge.

🏆 Congratulations to The Bagget Express — this year’s champions!
The Ladies Team put up a fierce fight, Cove Boatworks Ltd… well, they sank in the first minute 💦, and Patrick’s Future Classics may have had a few feet-on-the-river-floor moments 👀😂

Until next year — who’s brave enough to take them on? 💪⚓

📷Claire Furlong

12/10/2025

12/10/2025

12/10/2025

And that’s a wrap! 🎉
We hope you had as much fun as we did!

This photo says it all — what an amazing community we live in. As we were loading up the last of the festival sandbags, these awesome guys stopped to lend a hand. Thanks to them, the job was done in minutes!

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this festival possible — from our crew and volunteers to the friendly faces who pitched in along the way. ❤️⚓️

12/10/2025

If you missing The Great Boat Yard challenge you should watch this!
So many laughs 😂😂😂

11/10/2025

These guys super excited to watch the rescue between Coastguard Whangarei and Northland Rescue Helicopter 🐶