Racing begins at 10.05am on Sunday at the 39th World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro, with nine New Zealand crews on the water.
Thirty-three heats will be raced, starting with the men's coxless pair and finishing with three heats in the men's single scull.
New Zealand's Mahe Drysdale races in one of five heats in his class.
His main competition is from Ondrej Synek from the Czech Republic, Alan Campbell from Britain and Olaf Tufta from Norway, but they race in separate heats.
Also racing on Sunday for New Zealand are the men's double scull, Peter Taylor and Storm Uru and the coxless pair of Bond and Murray.
Both crews are current world champions.
New Zealand team high performance manager Alan Cotter says there will definitely be a home town advantage.
He says not having to travel to Europe for the event makes a real difference.
Cotter says it is realistic to expect New Zealand to better the five medals the team won at the world championships last year in Poland.
