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Welcome to the Heretaunga Boating Club. We are a dinghy sailing club located on the Petone Foreshore at the north end of Wellington Harbour.

Our club is relaxed, friendly and family oriented. We sail most Saturdays from October to April. New members are always welcome. We have something to offer any sailor, whether you want to cruise, and afterwards enjoy our facilities, such as hot showers and a cold drink at the bar - or, if you want serious racing, there are a wide range of boat classes to choose from, each with plenty of trophies u

p for grabs. There is also a Rescue Boat close at hand, should the need arise. The Petone Foreshore is an ideal playground for sailing. There is Ramp access onto a wide sandy rock free beach. Winds come from around the compass at varying strengths. A moderate southerly wind is the favourite. Club sailing is predominantly on Saturdays, with junior training in the mornings, and racing in the afternoon. The season starts around the beginning of September, finishing around late April . The main classes of boat sailed at HBC are Optimist, Starling and Sunburst and we have small but enthusiastic Open fleet of Fireball, Jollyboat and Farr 3.1. . The Junior membership is thriving, with an excellent training programme for both junior and senior members, run by Yachting New Zealand certified coaches. You can't beat our view of Wellington Harbour, and the venue is often hired out to members for personal functions. Heretaunga has held many national and international events including co-hosting the 2002-03 Tauranga and Tanner cups with Muritai Yacht club. If you'd like to join us come down for a chat. There's plenty of friendly people to help you out or point you in the direction of those who can. We generally race on Saturday afternoons with Junior training in the mornings. So from around 9 am to 6 pm there will be someone there to help you.

08/06/2026

Have a say on how your club is run at our Annual General Meeting. All club members and supporters welcome.
HBC clubrooms, 7pm, Tuesday 23 June 2026

31/05/2026

Check out our latest (and last) newsletter for the season!

https://mailchi.mp/67df59581f71/hbc-newsletter-5026861?e=5ee3a05a1a

Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club
Titahi Bay Boating Club

The season’s a wrap and this newsletter captures some of the action from the last few months, culminating in our end of season prize-giving. I’ll also give a short summary of what the committee has been up to, with a more fulsome account available at the AGM on 23 June. As the last Newsletter ti...

05/05/2026

Come along to the club at 6 pm on Saturday 9 May for our season-ending pot luck dinner and prize giving! Please bring a plate.

30/04/2026

Working bee at the club this Saturday, starting at 9am. Please bring tools, gloves and cleaning equipment.

21/04/2026

Looking for some pot-of-gold sailing opportunities in this watery weather? HBC will be open at 9am on Saturday for one last social sail. All sailor's welcome.
For those wanting racing we encourage you to head along to the Anzac Day Regatta at Muritai Yacht Club, and the Titahi Bay Boating Club Regatta on 2 May.
Next items to mark on your calendar are our end of season working bee (2 May) and prize giving (9 May).
(photo credit to Heidi).

24/03/2026

A lot has happened since February at HBC! Catch up on it all in the latest March newsletter.

What a cracking autumn we’re having on the water this year! This newsletter captures some of our sailor’s activity at events like the junior regatta at Queen Charlotte Yacht Club, the Muritai Junior Regatta, the Wellington Feva Champs and our recent harbour sail, where our youngest sailors got a...

28/02/2026

HBC junior sailors and their parents had a great time at the 2026 Queen Charlotte Interislander Regatta last weekend. Sailing, exploring, socialising, hydrating, re-hydrating and even footballing, the trip had it all. Thanks to QCYC for hosting us and to all the parents that made it happen!

23/02/2026

Latest HBC Newsletter is out!

After a disrupted first month of sailing due to holidays we are now well underway with the second part of the season. The theme for the summer so far has been “resilience”. We’ve had strong northerlies buffet sailors with gusts from multiple directions, and steady but strong southerlies that c...

02/02/2026

Congratulations to all who participated in the gusty HBC Regatta on Saturday at Petone Beach. We had 31 boats head out but only 10 make it across the finish line for our one and only race before abandonment. Well done to Morgan McKeown (Radial and Open), Aaron Judd of Paremata Boating Club (Laser), Rudi and Penny Hoy-Mack of Muritai Yacht Club (Sunburst) and Tilo Monien (winner and only Optimist finisher) for your wins.
A big thanks to our sponsors (Resene, Seaview Sails and Burnsco), and to all the volunteers and supporters for making the day a success!
Check out the drone footage to see some of the action and photos of some of our winners on the day.
https://youtu.be/_RAJoMbEFtU
Results available here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14KjziAFYtcp0zx3wNxcTSA-c45kQ6cfl/view?usp=drivesdk

31/01/2026

Looks like objects have been speeding past the club at night as well as today during our Regatta!

A large flash that lit up the night sky over much of New Zealand was captured by a live feed camera and prompted speculation it could have been a meteor.

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