A nice night sail and cruise to Kawau island

[John B]

One out of the box, the weather cycle co operated for us as we left friday evening (without kids) for Kawau island , 25 or 30 miles north of Auckland.
The occasion was Larry Pardey's 70th birthday party on Saturday night. I'd thought we'd just tiki tour out of the harbour and stop for the night....sail up on saturday ,but Kirsty wanted to head straight up there and anchor off Moturekareka island.
A really lovely night , the southerly made it a bit cold but a broad reach in a ketch in 15 or 18 knots (sometimes more)....... heaven.

lets go..

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the breeze went aft for a while requiring some shifting of the 80/20 sails tack
Shenandoah, the big 3 masted schooner off my shoulder.

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recalling that thread of a few weeks ago, I took me ugg boots. We had to drop the MS for a while as we ran off down for an hour.

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[John B]

It really did become quite glorious as the sun went down around the Tiri passage..

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and the moon came out

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Man it was so nice after that,... through the passage the wind came in on the beam, it became dark but the sea was gold with the reflected moon ,and for a while we cooked along at 9.5 knots powered up under 4 sails ,with a knot of tide helping as we reached down to the islands and their rather notorious reefs and passages.
The moonlight was good, the chartplotter was accurate( new addition last year) and we've been through there 100 times. Nevertheless, its always exciting rushing down on the islands at speed in the dark and slotting on through a gap which only seems a 100 metres or so wide. Just a fantastic sail.

Google earth says 300 metres;)

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Tiri passage down at the bottom of the map and Kawau island up top middle right. Thats Moturekareka to port and Motuketekete to stbd where we slotted on through.. normally we go to the east of Ketekete as its lit with one of those lights.
By those , I mean one which is about 100 metres inside the end of the reef , the type that 10 or 15 boats I've heard about in my sailing lifetime have run up on.

[John B]

Moturekareka was exposed due to the windshift so it was on to Mansion house bay for the night and as it happens , most of the next day.
Only 4 or 5 boats in there when we anchored around 9.30 ( left North head at about 6pm so good quick time), and waking up the next morning we found that Iorangi had shifted over to meet us at 7 that morning.

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Jane Gifford , the recently rebuilt NZ deck scow, came past with a wave.

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[Larks]

Careful John, people are starting to get the idea that NZ isn't such a cold, wet, grey, miserable, dreary place after all....just as well we all know better eh??;)

Looks like a very nice start to the Summer, how was the party???

[John B]

Its cold and miserable today Larks.:) Timing was good.

The party was just great and they'd gone to a heck of a lot of trouble with a couple of big marquees on the forshore , great food and the usual terrific hospitality.
As usual we commented the next day about not talking to enough people but thats a lesson for us to guard against next time. So many interesting people there.

Back to saturday morning , we had Johnny G over for breakfast and then we'all went for a walk to the Coppermine and hour away perhaps.
So nice to be at kawau slightly off season and to have some room to move , usually its just crawling with people and boats.

You see why..
The Beehive
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and the old coppermine.
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[Larks]

Where's the old copper mine? Dispute cove?

[Willin']

You puke!


Sorry, I mean that in the nicest possible way!

[John B]

You puke!


Sorry, I mean that in the nicest possible way!

:D No , my alchohol intake was modest ish but food... Oh dear. seefood diet.:rolleyes: see food and eat it.


Its in Coppermine bay Larks ( as far as I know anyway)
south western shore of the island ... pretty amazing what they did , digging shafts right down below sea level... I think 80 m or 100 m?

I vaguely recall they brought miners here to do it.. I don't recall if they were Cornishmen or Italians. It only ran for 7 years .

Well Oil be danged.
Dispute cove it is.

http://www.babs.com.au/kawaulodge/map_kawau_island.jpg
North cove is where the Pardeys live , just opposite the kawau lodge on a lovely little point with foreshore workshop and wharf.
Steve H , Ngatira has his family bach just below the e of Cove

Gets kinda busy in there at long weekends and christmas.
It echoes quite a bit too, especially when you scare the living daylights out of ' people' with ones woodenboat cannon, if one was to have such a thing .
Coincidentally, I do although I've only set it free once or twice........ I think I made 6 echoes, shut the local bird population up for three hours and caused Steve to inhale a heinekin bottle.

then... then of course there was the local easter yacht race when another inhabitant of the cove sailed his boat as Team Naked .
They were team pucker factor after I set that thing off, as the skipper reminded me on sat night.

[TimH]

Great pix John!

Where's Larry? :)

I read somewhere that Larry and Lin were sailing back and forth between here and there every year.

Perpetual summer.

[John B]

They brought Taleisin back late last year I think Tim, and made the decision to sell the little Thelma as they didn't feel they could do justice to two boats now that they were in the same location. Talesin was in the US for a few years now, perhaps as much as 15 or 16.( or 15 or 16 away from NZ)
I briefly met George , the owner of Serrafin.That was pretty amazing , coming all this way from Boston eh.

edit . Taleisin came back this year.

[TimH]

So they are down there permanently?

[dhic001]

Excellent stuff Mr B. I was out there just before labout weekend, was very very quiet. Nice to see Janie out in the gulf, the first time since 1985! Few of us who saw her in Okahu Bay would have believed that picture would ever be taken.
Daniel

[John B]

I don't know what their plans are Tim.

ain't that the truth Daniel.

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Not much of that left now

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[Thad]

Thanks John! So George came for the party!! Good fellow.

[John B]

Rob, Jane Gifford is a NZ deck scow ,which were derived or based on the great lakes deck scows except with a 'normal' bow on them. They were the trading vessels of the colonial and post colonial time here and had working careers on into the 30's and 40's mostly . They seem to have mostly been used for timber and shingle for construction but you'll see photos of them with herds of cattle and all sorts on them. They're big hollow surfboards basically.

Thad, talking so briefly to George and him telling me about re decking Serraffyn, it was absolutely on the tip of my tongue to ask him if he knew Thad. nah I thought, and carried on chatting.:rolleyes:
( incidental thought.. Cory came up to me a week or so ago and told me he had someone for me to meet.... he and Tracey have a wee sprog!)

George did something special actually. When redecking her they damaged the deck prisms getting them out and replaced them . He brought one as a gift for the Pardeys, all nicely let into a piece of varnished teak.

[John B]

Sunstone, that remarkable S and S which cruises the world was there.

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Kirsty awaits the man with the instamatic.

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I want one of these.

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[Thad]

Fun to keep track of friends and neighbors at such a distance. Thanks.

[John B]

John , re the "Jane Gifford" , I did my research both here on the WBF and the internet in general , and yes , I'm full of admiration for the work they have done on her.
But I didn't find anywhere that actually described her under sail.
I'd just like to know how she went .
The closest I've read is in the "barge trades" section of Garry Kerrs book "The Tasmanian Trading Ketch".
Regards Rob J.

pretty much like an old scow I'd say.
She hasn't been sailing yet under her new rig... maybe she'll surprise us all.

[Hwyl]

Iorangi had shifted over to meet us at 7 that morning.

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Iorangi is so pretty, you almost feel that you're violating some moral code by looking at her.

She can't do too well in the headroom stakes.

[John B]

Iorangi has plenty of sitting headroom.:D I always thought a tube a bit like a spinnaker launching chute would be a good idea for getting in and out.

[Larks]

Gareth, haven't you seen Lord of the Rings? They are all Hobbits in New Zealand so more than enough standing headroom in Iorangi;):D

[John B]

Johnny G would be over 6ft I imagine.:p
Just fer you Gareth.

galley
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and looking forward
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a bit of room up foward
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The head hides around the corner.

[John B]

and Riada sharing the Waionewoodenboat forum love with Iorangi on the motor punch home sunday...

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[Hwyl]

She's lovely. You certainly pay for the low freeboard, I could squeeze in though.


Gareth, haven't you seen Lord of the Rings? They are all Hobbits in New Zealand

Tolkien, lived in Oxford, his Hobbits were short hairy people who lived to the West and spoke a strange language. Hmm?

We still know how to mouse bowlines used on halyard shackles though.

[John B]

dang, where's muh zip ties.

but , but check out my 'new' tootin' clew outhaul strop made of webbing and velcro after the track old car thing broke down.

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she's a pearler mate.

[Hwyl]

How do you know I do that?

[John B]

Jims astrologist is actually mine , and he tells me stuff first.
Also the sun rises first here and that helps.
:rolleyes:
I know because you're the Chief Detective Inspector of clews in the Clew police department. I know I'm merely a lowly clerk in the CPD but I have to say you're slipping on the job ,Chief DI.... there's been a few clew strops missing on forum boats lately and no one is saying anything.

[dhic001]

pretty much like an old scow I'd say.
She hasn't been sailing yet under her new rig... maybe she'll surprise us all.

She will be about the same as the original, and the sails date from the Waiuku "restoration", so they won't make much difference to her performance. A scow is basically a sailing barge Rob, so bashing to windward is exactly that, bashing. I've sailed a fair bit on the maritime museum's so called replica, 'Ted Ashby', and it sails ok for a butter box with a pointy nose. They are big heavy vessels, so they carry their way, which helps a bit. Janie is 60 tons, so not a lightweight. Glad the weather was fine, there's still one topmast shroud to go up!

Daniel

[John B]

I'll just finish this thread off with a couple more photos from the weekend.


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The foreshore tents.. nice job they did with all of that.

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I watched a young girl sailing around in the Pardey's tender for an hour or two.. it did very well and is extremely buoyant in the ends.. I thought it a very good small tender actually.

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and

the new rocna worked pretty well too.:D

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[Hwyl]

That tender is (I think) a Hess design called "Fatty Knees". I've heard nice things about them.

[The Bigfella]

the new rocna worked pretty well too.:D



Do you have a mining licence?

[John B]

That tender is (I think) a Hess design called "Fatty Knees". I've heard nice things about them.

Thanks Gareth, I thought it'd be a known design. Just nicely sorted out , big capacity, flat run for towing. The girl sailing it around sat right on the aft thwart and while it could have been a little bit better trimmed forward, it sailed around really nicely like that. I'm really envious of the canvas/rubber fender strip around it.. can't get it here.

[John B]

Do you have a mining licence?

No , but I felt like a drainage contractor with a problem after cleaning it up.;)

pretty grunty winch on Riada , and you know when you're well dug in when the bow dives 3 inches or so , chain straight up and down.
Which it did getting that broken out.

Me shackle is moused. I just thought I'd add that. Its rated too.( although I forget what to at the moment.plenty.);)

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

John I applaud you on a absolutely amazingly well done photoriffic thread.
Well done and thank you its was an absolute pleasure.

[StevenBauer]

I'm really envious of the canvas/rubber fender strip around it.. can't get it here.

That's what we have on our Nutshell Pram. Is there any reason you couldn't just order some from Hamilton Marine? Aside from the price, of course. $6.99 a foot! :eek:

http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/browse.cfm/docking/rubrail/gunwale-guard-dacron/foam-3/4rnd-roll=200plt=1000-134053/4,36258.html

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/2009%20cruise/IMG_3441.jpg?t=1257301707

Steven

[John B]

My pleasure ,and thanks Joe. You get some good sailing time in , it helps to keep thinking about it eh.
Good test of the motor too punching back, so I'm feeling more confident there now. In 8 weeks we're goneburgers for a month ,touch wood.

[John B]

Steven, I'm going to end up either with some plumbers rubber insulation tube or if I get motivated, the same stuff wrapped in fabric just to safe up that stripper. I'm not into that boat yet because I have 3 other dinghies I'm working on rehabbing.( can you believe that ... I don't):rolleyes:

but man, I'd like that http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/prodimg/HM-1518QR.JPG

[The Bigfella]

John - the rubber insulation tube is Armaflex... I used to sell it to a mob over there called Forman Insulation. They used to be in Penrose IIRC. If you use it, paint it and it will be a LOT tougher. There is a specific paint for it - highly elastic. Probably pricey though - and some folks just use latex paint... which is nowhere near as good.

[John B]

Thanks Ian, Formans is where I buy it. Interesting about the paint , I hadn't thought of that.
I do have a 9kg ( like a bbq bottle) contact adhesive spray sytem I thought I'd glue some fabric on with. I also have rolls of polyester and polyprop fabric offcuts lying around so I thought I might use that and suck the UV.Throw it away when its dead.

What colour though, ohhh the decisions.

[TimH]

Partying with the Pardeys.

Whoda thunk?