The Auckland Provincial Yacht & Motor Boat Association was established in 1919 as an affiliation of the town and country yacht clubs that existed at that time. There were the Town Clubs – the central clubs from Taiotea at Browns Bay in the north to Otahuhu in the south – and the Country Clubs, from the Awanui Cruising Club in the Far North and south to Mercury Bay and Rotorua.
Until the NZ Yachting Federation (NZYF) was
