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Post by sabre on Feb 3, 2024 21:20:33 GMT 12
One boat on the beach at Parua bay. Not at all suprised. Yep another concrete shitter bites the dust . That boat has had a generator and a big hitachi drop saw on the cockpit table for as long as I can remember . Looks like someone went for lunch and never came back . Did you see it? I'm way over the other side of they bay so don't have a good view of it. Looks 45ft+ with double spreaders and maybe a flatish bottomed hull. Suprised its ferro to be honest. Certainly looked grubby and neglected looking at it through the binos
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Post by em on Feb 4, 2024 7:25:19 GMT 12
Na a mate sent me this pic from Facebook , he thought it was another shitter that’s very similar and parked right by our start line . Attachments:
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Post by em on Feb 4, 2024 7:30:11 GMT 12
Yep another concrete shitter bites the dust . That boat has had a generator and a big hitachi drop saw on the cockpit table for as long as I can remember . Looks like someone went for lunch and never came back . Did you see it? I'm way over the other side of the bay so don't have a good view of it. Looks 45ft+ with double spreaders and maybe a flatish bottomed hull. Suprised its ferro to be honest. Certainly looked grubby and neglected looking at it through the binos The WCC trailer yachts are racing at 1 this arvo in P bay if you are keen to go for a burn or see some hectic action . PM me if you want to crew on a boat
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Post by sabre on Feb 4, 2024 8:14:23 GMT 12
Did you see it? I'm way over the other side of the bay so don't have a good view of it. Looks 45ft+ with double spreaders and maybe a flatish bottomed hull. Suprised its ferro to be honest. Certainly looked grubby and neglected looking at it through the binos The WCC trailer yachts are racing at 1 this arvo in P bay if you are keen to go for a burn or see some hectic action . PM me if you want to crew on a boat Thanks heaps for the offer but I'm out off the heads heading north again.
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Post by harrytom on Feb 4, 2024 9:19:17 GMT 12
I see most of the inner gulf stations on PW had a 24hr peak of 56kts, most earlier this arvo whilst Manukau Heads had 78 kts 1800 yesterday! Was up at the lighthouse about that time,couldnt tell where the entrance was,between the rain and the gust,it was probably the wildest I have seen for awhile,at least the Kentish had cold beer.
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 4, 2024 11:37:50 GMT 12
so have we used up this month's ration of wind over the last 2 days , coming out of Firth of Thames have 3-4 kt NE and flat calm water...
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 5, 2024 16:58:19 GMT 12
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Post by sabre on Feb 5, 2024 18:40:54 GMT 12
Cracker evening arriving in the Bay of Islands last night. Bit busy for my liking though..
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Post by sabre on Feb 5, 2024 18:45:26 GMT 12
And a glorious motor sail up to Whangaroa today..
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Post by Fogg on Feb 7, 2024 13:02:39 GMT 12
My latest fav pic of the season so far. My 9yr old with his friend puttering around in the dinghy yesterday at Tiri. Our ePropulsion is in for repairs so I’m running the backup Yamaha 15hp instead - I was a bit nervous about letting a 9yr old loose with 15hp to play with but he seemed to handle it responsibly.
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Post by Fogg on Feb 7, 2024 16:59:51 GMT 12
I’ve never seen Tiri as busy as this (you have to zoom in to see the true density of boats). It looked more like a beach in the Med than NZ! 😳
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Post by dutyfree on Feb 7, 2024 17:54:03 GMT 12
We were at palm Beach for 2.5 days - yesterday it was packed!
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Post by fish on Feb 7, 2024 19:00:53 GMT 12
I think yesterday was easily the busiest day on the water I've ever scene. Easily the busiest day in recent memory (as in this summer, last summer and possibly the summer before that). And we didn't actually go out on the water. Just sitting at home overlooking Stanmore Bay and the waters between Hatfields, Mahurangi, Kawau and around to the Tiri Channel, never scene so many boats zooming around. Went for a walk at Shakespeare and then a swim. Driving up along the Whanga Peninsular, at times every second car was towing a boat. And the cars in between had either kayaks or paddle boards on the roof. A lot of boats being towed here and there on the roads.
And every Bay / Beach we went past was rammed. Stanmore boat trailer park was rammed with trailers parked a long, long way up the road. Manly never scene it so busy. Little Manly no parking left. Army Bay, chocka carpark with boat trailers parked up the road, down the road, friggin everywhere. Shakespeare itself was rammed, chocka thick with cars including the overflow parking. We went in about 6pm, it was a solid stream of cars coming out the other way.
Anyone would think it was a National Holiday or something, and with hot, calm, settled weather. And may we have many more like it.
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Post by sloopjohnb on Feb 7, 2024 19:09:35 GMT 12
we were celebrating our great nautical history........the migration from the islands and Europe.
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 7, 2024 19:21:55 GMT 12
I think yesterday was easily the busiest day on the water I've ever scene. Easily the busiest day in recent memory (as in this summer, last summer and possibly the summer before that). And we didn't actually go out on the water. Just sitting at home overlooking Stanmore Bay and the waters between Hatfields, Mahurangi, Kawau and around to the Tiri Channel, never scene so many boats zooming around. Went for a walk at Shakespeare and then a swim. Driving up along the Whanga Peninsular, at times every second car was towing a boat. And the cars in between had either kayaks or paddle boards on the roof. A lot of boats being towed here and there on the roads. And every Bay / Beach we went past was rammed. Stanmore boat trailer park was rammed with trailers parked a long, long way up the road. Manly never scene it so busy. Little Manly no parking left. Army Bay, chocka carpark with boat trailers parked up the road, down the road, friggin everywhere. Shakespeare itself was rammed, chocka thick with cars including the overflow parking. We went in about 6pm, it was a solid stream of cars coming out the other way. Anyone would think it was a National Holiday or something, and with hot, calm, settled weather. And may we have many more like it. We overnighted at Moturekareka Monday night - seemed like an invasion of fizz boats heading towards us after 9.00am, great to see everyone out really enjoying themselves. The fizz boat retrieving queue at the ramp at Sandspit at 5.00pm yesterday just went on for ever, no doubt the same scene at every ramp in the region. Summer is certainly here!
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