The Auckland Anniversary Day regatta has always been a family affair for yachting legend Penny Whiting - while she was being born, her father was on the Waitemata Harbour racing in the very same regatta.

For local tugboat enthusiast Baden Pascoe, there is something honourable and magical about a vessel that has been a workhorse most of its life.

NZ's premier retail street could be blocked to vehicles and turned into a mall in a move reminiscent of New York's reclaiming Broadway for pedestrians.

Lisa Latta clearly remembers her thoughts moments before Fort Lincoln mastered Antonio Lombardo in last night's $1 million Karaka Million at Ellerslie.

The Auckland Anniversary regatta is now 171 years old. The Herald on Sunday's Anniversary Day magazine is dedicated to the regatta and all those who make it happen and who participate in it.

Mark Donnelly explains how a better result could have been achieved in St Heliers

A pub tenant is being sought for Auckland's historic Birdcage Tavern near Victoria Park.

Awhitu Lighthouse, on a beautiful peninsula on the south-western shores of the Manukau Harbour, has remarkable views of the coast.

Friendly faces and warm weather are great memories to take back home.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.

Swimmers at risk as council fails to test water.

Despite marking its fifth consecutive year, the 2011 Auckland Seafood Festival has a number of firsts up its sleeve.

Waka ama is more than just the fun sport of outrigger canoeing, which fits in ideally with our Kiwi lifestyle and attracts paddlers of both sexes from age 7 to 70.

They are the grand old vessels of the sea - the ships of old, restored to full glory to sail Auckland's harbours once again, like they did more than a century ago.

Devonport wharf is a popular spot for land-based fishermen.If you can't get out on the harbour on a boat, try these land-based fishing spots. James Russell reports.

After watching all those yachts on the harbour this weekend you might be itching to get among them. Diana Clement had a go at learning how to sail.

Once a doctor's home, this revamped grande dame is in excellent heart.

Sally Foot and husband Patrick thought Hobsonville would be a temporary base for just a few years, but its closeness to the water and easy lifestyle means they feel settled here now with their children.

It's all happening on the water this weekend - we round up some of the best spots to catch the yachting action.

Mt Wellington and Constellation Drive on the North Shore. Watch the yachts with a basket full of goodies from one of these great delis around town.

It's a cuisine getting big attention but this particular spot, while delicious, didn't quite get the pulse racing.

The man found dead beside a cycleway in the Auckland suburb of Kingsland has been identified.

Police have found no suspicious circumstances in the death of a man whose body was found on a cycleway under an Auckland overbridge.