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Penny Whiting, Westhaven Marina and the Ponsonby Cruising Club hold a Boating 101 evening next month with answers to questions about how to learn to sail, the level of commitment and involvement if you sign up to crew on a boat, how one gets into racing or social sailing, how to join a yacht clubpatagonia discount code toys, dragonboating and stand up paddling boarding, and the various training schools and facilities at Westhaven Marina.Get your motor runningAndrew Flanagan, of Powerboat Training New Zealand, says that just because you can drive a car (or sail a sailboat) patagonia better sweater damen2doesn t mean you can automatically hop behind the wheel of a powerboat and simply take off into the wild blue.He says it requires specific skills and knowledge.Powerboat Training NZ provides practical and theory courses and private tuition on all sorts of powered vessels, from jet skis to large motor launches. 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