First boating weekend of the season...

[John B]

School holidays too, so the boy and I shot away for 3 days and a bit.
First decent weather system for a month or so so it was a nice change.. only problem .. very little wind.

sunday morning at drunks bay after an early afternoon start on saturday.. The lovely Bruce Clark design Innocenti beside us. Innocenti is three skins of Kauri and just one of those boats, beautifully built, extremely well maintained and with an ownership provenance/ history you'd be very pleased to be part of yourself. That boat campaigned hard in her early years( mid 1980's construction ?) but has subsequently been around the world and made numerous pacific islands trips.. most recently up to tahiti and back down and around to Hobart and then back here. She has a Gary Mull look to her to me.

.. we stayed the night with one other boat at the back of Rakino island after a nice wee sail and an unsuccessful fish.
Monday very light, thats the Noises in front of us



I always enjoy looking at the land in the various threads we see here from the PNW or Casco bay or intracoastal or Montreal.... this is your typical Hauraki gulf island look.. The flat NZ green.

[John B]

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I tell you what amazes me every time I experience it. Its that there's another world out there, a parallel universe where there's few people and tons of room. Its called the working week......

We fancied a bit of fishin so we dropped a line or two unsucessfully until the turn of the tide, and drift fished with softbaits...

bite time..



the boy complete with school soccer trip away hair crime..



Love those baits .. always mouth hooked if you want to release.

[L.W. Baxter]

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Nice pictures, John B. Looks like some good bonding was had.

...there's another world out there, a parallel universe where there's few people and tons of room. Its called the working week.....

Yeah, no kidding! Got out last Tuesday for tuna with some wooden dory fishing friends, on some of the flattest water of the year. We were all alone from the jetty tips to 40 miles out and back. No competition at the ramp, either. Kids are back to school, so I played hooky solo.

Taking license to add some photos to your thread...heading out of Tillamook Bay in the a.m.


Our wing boat, a glen-l Hunk, builder and one-time WBF member edsr at the helm


My best albacore of the season, headed for the deep chill...


And back to the barn, late afternoon...

[John B]

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Excellent fish there Lee! The tuna we pick up ( usually on passage somewhere up the coast) are either skippys or much smaller albacore than that one.
Here's our snapper after a couple of hours, we put a few back and only kept the smaller ones if they were damaged.
Fed 2 boats and the rest home for family tonight.


Hey, I got that tld25! trolled a bit but nothing happening.. nice to use though.. very nice.

[Phil Y]

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Nice work John
Phil

[Larks]

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In a T-Shirt????? Seriously now John, you're not really in New Zealand are you mate!!!!! (or has that bleach gone through to his brain as well??)

Depending on how our ally' boat refit is travelling, I'm hoping to be over that way for Christmas again this year....'you likely to be up around Kerri Kerri over the festive season for a beer or two? (and an excuse for me to escape the out laws)?

[John B]

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Thanks Phil.

Larks, I really had to work hard to get that boy to wear his T shirt and shorts for the photo as its still really cold here.
Bitter .. bitterly cold, just between the rain squalls .

The plan this year is to go north this christmas as it happens and if we can juggle it'd be great to catch up. Its still very fluid ATM though, dependent on family matters a bit and also because if we have westerlies, we'll be staying away from the BOI.
But lets talk closer to the time eh.
Coming to AKL?

[StevenBauer]

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Nice fish!

Funny how our seasons are just exactly opposite. Here now each sail could be the last of the season. We'll be in the water for about 2 more weeks. Hopefully two or three nice sails.



Steven

[John B]

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We've had a brutal weather sort of september Steven, I'm hoping its the equinox a bit early and it improves from now on. Normally its october thats all over the place weather wise.
This weekend looks like a boomer so we'll try for another long one .... 3 or 4 days if I have my way ( while the school holidays are on).

[StevenBauer]

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Take pics. We'll compare next week.



Steven

[Larks]

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Coming to AKL?

If I have my way we'll have a day either side in AKL, last time I agreed to go over to the outlaws I did so on the condition that I could have a day or two to wander around the viaduct and so on, but somehow the only connecting flights to KK had us in to AKL at 10.00pm and out at about 9.00am the next day with a three hour turnaround on the way back. Now I'm also really really keen to check out that chandlery (forgotten the name of it, a thread on here a while back??) so may push to hire a car rather than fly up (though if we do fly up the outlaws Jag becomes mine for the time I'm there...so it's not all bad).

[John B]

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Fosters. Its about a block from the viaduct so easy to get to. There's quite a collection of the Southern trust's boats building up in the viaduct now too.. Wairiki, Rawene , Tucana etc all over where Arcturus is moored.

[John B]

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Second boating weekend of the season, with only one I've forgotten how to do this newbie type kerfuffle as opposed to the 2 or 3 last weekend. Full boat with 3 kids and Kirsty and I and 3 1/2 days as its still school holidays.
Good breeze.. 20 knots or so sat , 10 knots sun, nil mon and tues morning. Met up with our cruisy mates Contour for a night







didn't catch any fish all weekend.. not even any bites, just this dude


who was happy to go back

[Larks]

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with only one I've forgotten how to do this newbie type kerfuffle as opposed to the 2 or 3 last weekend

At least you get to do that in relative privacy at this time of the season, I had all of mine in one hit in front of the whole mob at the WBF EBS at Fingal when I tried to put Kate in the drink........(I hadn't had the sails up on the Hartley for quite a while)

[John B]

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Oh yeah ... at least last week it was only in front of about 6 or 10 boats.. later in the season it'd be 50 in the same bay.. this weeks little episode was in front of one.

The trend is going the right way anyway eh.