Waterline - February 2011

February 2011 Issue No 153

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Tauranga tide heights in metres.

Bowentown: subtract 5 minutes from Tauranga (both HW and LW) Katikati (Kauri Point): add 30 minutes to Tauranga (both HW and LW) Whitianga: High Water subtract 2 minutes from Tauranga HW tide; Low Water add 2 minutes to Tauranga Low Water.

Every effort has been made to ensure that these times and tides are correct, no responsibility will be accepted for any inaccuracies, omissions, or misuse or misinterpretation of the values for tides and times published. Times used in the tide predictions are in New Zealand Standard Time (NZST1).

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Bridge marina seeks sea wall Tauranga Bridge Marina is in the process of applying for a Coastal Permit to construct a rockwall breakwater around the Northern perimeter of the existing Marina.

The application was lodged on 5 November 2010, with more than 40 supporting the proposal and a handful opposing it, including the Port of Tauranga Ltd, and the NZ Transport Agency.

“We are addressing some of the more serious concerns raised by some of the objectors and expect to have some pre hearing meetings to address their concerns,” says Bridge Marina manager Tony Arnold.

During the14 years Tony’s been manager at the marina he’s seen a number of northerly storms that have caused significant damage to boats and the Marina.

“Luckily to date no one has been seriously injured or worse,” says Tony. “We have put together a dedicated group of staff and volunteers who have put their names on a list should we need help in a bad storm, tsunami or another disaster - but we dread the day we get a Northerly storm of cyclone

strength in the hours of darkness.”

The bridge marina is protected by a 3.6m wide pontoon round the Northern extent of the marina. It was intended to reduce the wave height within the marina, but it has not performed to expectations.

Tauranga Bridge Marina last sustained damage in a Northerly storm in 2006.

Vessels at the marina have been damaged in storms, breaking mooring lines, or even breaking loose. The marina structure itself has been damaged with connecting bolts between the pontoons being broken as well as pontoons incurring damage.

A rock breakwater will protect the marina in northerly storms and future proof the marina from ongoing Port of Tauranga expansion, says Tony.

The Port of Tauranga plan provides for

an additional sitting basin directly north of the marina and dredging to 12.0m below current depth immediately North and West of A Pier.

A rock wall will block prop wash from flowing through the marina from the nearby operation of large cargo ships and tugs, and allow the port to carry out future proposed activities without restriction.

The traditional rockwall is the preferred choice, being environmentally, aesthetically, and economically the best option, says Tony.

The application to the BOP Regional Council allows for the current floating breakwater to be moved to the south by approximately 20 metres so that the TBM boundary to the north remains the same.

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ARATAKI

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Tauranga companies with Arataki input With the recent launch of the Port of Tauranga’s new pilot boat, one of the successes of this project worth noting is the involvement of two small Tauranga companies who supplied key components for the vessels operation – the navigation suite and steering system.

Bay Marine Electronics was selected to supply a full Garmin electronics package for the vessel and Innovations In Motion supplied a TMQ Electric steering system. There is a close link between these two companies as both are managed by Steven and Diane Gillett. Bay Marine Electronics specialises in marine navigation and entertainment systems primarily focusing on Garmin, Furuno and Lowrance. Innovations In Motion is an importer and distributor of marine autopilots, steering systems and navigation software from TMQ Electronics in Brisbane and also is a nationwide online retailer for Garmin Fitness products and Sports Nutrition.

Steering

Innovations In Motion has worked with Q-West Boat Builders, who built the Arataki, for a number of years. “We’ve supplied a number of C-Drive Steering Systems to Q-West” says Steven. “They are particularly good for cats as it is not always practical to tie the two rudders mechanically due to the hull layout. A C-Drive system electronically keeps the rudders aligned at all times. It’s also good for multiple steering stations as you don’t have to run bulky hydraulic lines around. You can use thin electrical cable and connect these to joystick or electric wheel controls.” Most of Q-West’s work is with catamarans including the Whale Watch boats used in Kaikoura and ferries in Pine Harbour.

The Arataki has an electric wheel in the main helm position and a joystick control on the aft deck. Each station can be selected by just pressing a button. A particular requirement with the Arataki was quick manoeuvrability especially trying to transfer the Pilot to a large container ship in a 2m swell. The electric helm is very light and only one turn lock to lock. “It is a very cool system to use. It takes a bit of adjustment getting used to the response from the electric system but it

doesn’t take long,” says Steven.

A conventional hydraulic helm would be much heavier to use and somewhere around 6 turns lock to lock would not respond as fast as the electric system.

Ideal solution

As a Garmin dealer, Bay Marine Electronics supplied the full electronic suite for the Arataki.

“When the Port first contacted me about a system for this vessel, I really felt that Garmin would be an ideal solution. Having installed a number of large screen Garmin systems in recreational boats, we knew that there would definitely be commercial applications for these systems as well,” says Steven. The Port wanted a high performance, quality system that was very easy to use. “I took over a 12 inch Garmin touch screen to present to the project team at our first meeting. The first question I was asked was does it have a man overboard button on the front screen. As soon as I turned it on, it immediately came up on the home screen showing the button in question.”

From then on, the team seemed impressed more and more as they spent more time assessing the operation of the unit until they got to the point where they requested a complete quote based on this system.

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Systems that communicate with each other .

After a thorough investigation of all other competitor solutions for the project including a visit to IMTEC where all the alternative systems were on display, the team came back to Bay Marine Electronics and placed the order. The system on the Arataki consists of 3 x GPSMAP7015 displays which are Garmin’s top of the line 15” touch screen with dual processors and zero redraw time, a GMR24HD Digital Radar, Garmin sounder module, Garmin VHF radios and a Garmin AIS transponder unit. There is also a DC computer on board designed and manufactured by Bay Marine Electronics that uses the Garmin displays as a PC monitor negating the need to fit a separate and expensive waterproof PC monitor.

“The beauty of the Garmin networked systems is that they are truly plug and play. Someone has actually sat down and thought about how to make these systems communicate with each other,” says Steven. Other networked systems Bay Marine

Electronics have supplied involve some time to configure all the components of the system so they have the right software and talk to each other. “This can take 2-3 hours and it is hard to get a customer to accept a programming charge on top of the hardware and installation costs.”

The Port’s Garmin system was pre-configured in Bay Marine Electronics workshop prior to shipping to Q-West and took less than 30 minutes to get the whole system up and working. The displays prompt the installer what is connected to each other and ask how they are to be utilised. “We travelled to Q-West to commission this system but it was all working when we arrived and all we needed to do was ensure the latest software was on board and make some fine adjustments to suit the vessel.”

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Unravelling the knot This summer, just like on the roads, it’s been all about safe speed.

If everyone proceeded at a safe speed there would be fewer boating collisions and drownings.

I thought you might be interested in a bit of history on boat speed and how ‘knots’ got its name. But let’s start with a reminder of the rule: • The five knot rule: Does it apply to all boats?

The five knot rule says that you are only allowed to do five knots: - within 200 metres of the shore - within 200 metres of a boat flying the dive flag - within 50 metres of another boat or a swimmer - when somebody is ‘bow riding’ – that is, when someone has part of their body hanging outside the vessel The only exception is when you’re in a ski access lane or a specially reserved area.

The five knot rule applies to all boats, with a few exceptions: like vessels over 500

tonnes (for example, large cargo ships) if they cannot be safely navigated at five knots; yachts racing in a club race; competitive rowing or paddling; or any police, harbourmaster or emergency craft.

• So how fast is five knots?

- Five knots is about the same as a very fast walk – check out the people walking along the beach to get some idea of how fast you can go.

- It’s around 10 km/hr (9¼ km/hr, actually, which is very slow!) Imagine driving your car at 10 km/hr and you’ll get some idea of how that feels - If your boat or jetski is measured in miles per hour, five knots is just under 6mph, so knots are roughly the same as miles per hour - A horse walks at roughly 6-7mph, which is just slower than five knots – trotting speed is way too fast!

- A decent kayak paddler can manage around 10km/h – or five knots – so if you’re travelling faster than a sea kayak or multisport kayak, you’re exceeding five knots.

• What exactly is a ‘knot’ anyway?

A knot is a nautical mile per hour, so a boat travelling at five knots is moving at five nautical miles per hour. A nautical mile actually relates to the circumference of the earth.

If you divide the earth up into 360 degrees, then break one of those degrees into 60 ‘minutes’ then, at the equator, a ‘minute’ – or 60th of a degree, equals a nautical mile.

• How did knots get their name?

The answer goes way back to the 17th century. On the old sailing ships, there was no GPS or other way to measure speed or distance.

The sailors devised a way of measuring their speed through the water by throwing a ‘log’ or triangle of wood into the water with a piece of rope tied to it. They would time how fast they sailed away from the log using an hourglass and when the hourglass sand ran out, they would stop the rope and measure how much rope had been fed out.

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Knowing the safety regulations The rope was tied with knots at regular intervals, to make it easy to measure how much rope was used. Distance between the knots depended on the hourglass: if it ran for one minute, simple mathematics tells us that their knots would have been 101 feet (or 30.8 metres) apart.

The sailors just counted how many knots had been fed out – and that gave them their speed – in knots.

• Make your own speed log for fun You can make one of these easily and test it out for yourself. Make the ‘log’ from a triangle of ply. It needs to be weighted along one side so that it floats vertically in the water. You will need to attach it to a long rope with a three legged bridle, one end to each corner of the log. One bridle leg should be attached to a cork fitted into a hole drilled in one corner of the log. This allows you to easily retrieve the log when you’ve finished – just tug hard on the rope and the cork will pull out and the log will turn sideways. Tie knots in your rope at regular intervals. If you’re timing for say 20 seconds, your knots would need to be 10 metres apart.

I tried it many years ago and it was sur-

prisingly accurate – and rather fun, too. Try it with the kids sometime!

• In a car, you always have to keep left: in a boat, it’s the opposite – you have to keep right! Why is this?

This is historically because before the use of a rudder the boat was steered by a steering oar, which was located on the right-hand side, (also called steer-board, or starboard side of the boat) because the helmsman, standing in the middle of the boat and looking ahead, used his right hand to operate it.

Traditionally, boats would moor with the left-hand side to the wharf to prevent damage to the steering oar, and this was referred to as the larboard or loading side.

This was later replaced by the word port

(the side used when in port) to prevent confusion from the similar sounding words larboard and starboard.

By keeping to the right, boats pass ‘portto-port’. This protects the vital steering oar.

• Do jetskis (personal water craft) have to obey the same rules as big cargo ships?

Yes, all water craft have to obey the same rules. Our rules are based on international rules, so if you’re out in the open ocean, all ships and boats should be using the same rules. Jetskis (PWCs) obey the same rules as everybody else: they have to keep right in a channel; give way to the right when there’s a crossing vessel; keep a good lookout, obey the five knot rule, and so on.

• Where can boaties go to find information on safety regulations and local information?

Call in to the harbourmaster’s office at 6 Rata Street, Mount Maunganui and collect a free Tauranga Harbour or Rotorua Lakes Guide. We also have Harbour Guides for Whakatane, Ohiwa and all the river entrances between here and Opotiki. Or visit www.envbop.govt.nz and look under environment.

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Homely, safe feel for party The happy, homely feel customers find on the Luv Boat, cruising on Tauranga harbour, is no accident.

Her owners Noel and Natalie Reeve spHer owners Noel and Natalie Reeve spent 14 years living afloat - seven of them while undertaking a lengthy global circumnavigation.

“During our welcome aboard and safety talk we inform customers that we are experienced, careful sailors,” says Natalie.

“A few clients are a bit apprehensive about being out on the water.

In order for them to totally enjoy the experience with us, we feel this helps put them at ease.”

Noel and Natalie returned from their voyage with no money and no job and found the former Tauranga harbour ferry The Spirit and the Luv Boat business on Trade Me. They are now entering the second season of harbour cruising for private and public parties, and are thrilled with the number of cruises undertaken during the Christmas period.

Natalie has a line on Kokomo the clown who delivers singing telegrams on board, or who can join a cruise for a bit of laughter

and banter. Natalie is also able to organise adult entertainment for hen and stag parties.

The on board entertainment system accepts customer’s playlists from ipods, plays video and pictures and includes 4,500 songs on the karaoke.

The Spirit is surveyed for 80 passengers and is fully licensed.

“I make cocktails now,” says Natalie. “I did that for a pirates cruise, and the rum and tequila cocktails were a real hit.”

The personalised service also includes the galley, which stocks special drinks and food on request, including gluten free, vegetarian and vegan. They’ve also added a pie warmer and a microwave for the self caterers.

“In the near future we hope our new barbecue chef Steve will use his extensive knowledge of Asian cuisine, and we hope to be able to provide on-board Asian stir fry and barbecue dishes in addition to the barbecue menu,” says Natalie.

Noel’s widened the boarding gates enabling wheelchair access. With new stairs, wheelchairs can now access the saloon and top deck.

He’s also added rails providing outdoor viewing on the top deck aft which has been extremely popular over the summer.

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Maritime opportunities abound From just about any vantage point in the Bay you can look out towards the sea and view thousands of people either working in or around boats for pleasure or business.

Worldwide, an estimated 10.5 million people are employed in the maritime industry – and that’s just on container ships and in the world’s major ports.

The maritime industry spans everything from aquaculture, commercial fishing, container shipping and fuel tankers, to tourism operators and crew aboard super yachts and cruise ships.

STCW95 Basic Training programme is essential for anyone intending to work on an overseas vessel.

Closely aligned to the region’s maritime industry, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic offers a large number of statutory maritime programmes ensuring people have the right qualifications to enter or progress their maritime careers.

A popular choice is the STCW95 Basic Training programme. An internationally recognised entry level qualification, the STCW95 is valid for life and is essential for anyone intending to work on an overseas vessel (including oil rigs, cruise ships and super yachts).

If fishing is more your thing and you’re look-

ing to work on commercial fishing vessels, check out the Certificate in Maritime and Fishing Technology programme. This is a pre-sea programme ensuring graduates are confident and ready to work as a deckhand on a range of different vessels.

All of the polytechnic’s programmes are approved by Maritime New Zealand, so whether you’re after an Advanced Deckhand Ticket, an Inshore Launch Masters certificate of competency, restricted or general radio licence, NZ Offshore Watchkeeper or NZ Offshore Master or even something a little more specialised, they’ve got you covered.

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Off to a great start CLUB NEWS Tauranga Yacht & Power Boat Club

TYPBC Women on Water

The year 2011 is off to a great start with our young guns travelling to Napier to do battle against the country's best.

Trent “the Terminator� Rippey totally dominated the Tauranga Cup with Isaac McHardie 4th, Zak Merton 6th and Micah Wilkinson 8th. Also TYPBC sailor Isaac McHardie, sailing for Waikato/Thames, won the Tanner Cup with Trent finishing 3rd. Isaac is in a league of his own in breezes under 10 knots while Trent excels in the heavy stuff. Oscar Rorvik battled into third place out of 91 competitors in

the Starling Nationals, a very good effort as he was coming back from a broken leg and a lot of time off the water. Nick Gunn finished 17th overall.

On the other side of the country Paul Sloane sailing "Harmony" was 3rd in the Noelex 22 Nationals sailed in New Plymouth.

Peter Burling finished 4th overall racing foiling Moths at the world champs at Lake Macquarie across the ditch.

Apparently this charging around the race track at up to 29 knots gives these 49er skiff sailors razor-sharp reflexes so when they get back on their slower skiffs they feel like they have all the time in the world. Sounds like huge fun.

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Hamish listening to a different drum beat.

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Brilliant breeze for first Wednesday night ...continued Here at home our first Wednesday night race enjoyed a brilliant 20 knot breeze for the first race of 2011, with a down wind start under spinnakers, keeping crews sharp, and it looked spectacular from the shore.

Extreme won the start of Division One and held her lead all the way finishing just ahead of Frenzy followed by Sabian with General Jackson in 4th place winning on handicap .

The multihulls enjoyed the fresh conditions with a 19 knot reach along the wharf to round mark 7 and power off upwind.

Andy Knowles with Lance Putan as crew showed just what a Tornado can do in a fresh breeze finishing 26 minutes ahead of their nearest rivals Phil Scherer and Scott on the very well sailed Nacra 17. Absolutely phenomenal!

Another finish worthy of note was John Burns sailing his Farr 6000 Mintaka. They had at least 300 meters on their nearest rivals, another Farr 6000 and a Bonito Aquarius.

single handed to NZ by her owner builder and is so nicely balanced she virtually sails herself. Their are twin rudders made from driftwood lashed to the inner side of each stern but they don't look too serious.

Hamish always felt the Wharram was not traditional enough. I wish there were more traditional craft in Tauranga and we could have a Traditional Boats Regatta one weekend a year, that would be great fun.

Hmmmm.

Roger Clark, Commodore

Lounging around

John was lounging on the foredeck as they ran down to the finish, a class act! Meanwhile back at the club Russell and I were cleaning up the mess after being dismasted in the rigging area on the front lawn. We didn't even make it to the water when Dorothy tossed her rig off. The whole lot came down on Russell’s car roof which suffered a nice dent and the back window shattered.

Broke a few bits on the rig too, ouch!

I enjoyed watching one of the big voyaging Wakas sailing down the harbour under traditional crab claw rig one evening. I had last seen this Waka in Tonga. Although a bit of a "go fast" man myself I am very drawn to traditional craft of all types and have great admiration for those that sail them.

You may have noticed a very different looking twin hulled vessel moored in Pilot Bay. Ontong Java (soon to be renamed) is owned by Hamish and Amber who used to be half shares with Hamish's dad in the big blue Wharram cat that broke off her mooring and ended her life on Matakana's surf beach. Ontong Java was built using traditional methods in Senegal from drawings and sketches of traditional voyaging craft. One hull is longer than the other, the shorter port hull is beamier than its long, slender mate to starboard.

The mast is off centre to compensate and everything is lashed together. The hulls are built from long planks about 350-400mm wide by 45mm thick. She is very roomy internally and is Hamish and Amber's permanent address. Ontong Java was sailed

Above: The interior is beautiful timber. No paint and epoxy.

Above: Twin Hulled Ontong Java (soon to be renamed) sailed single handed from Africa to Pilot Bay.

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Peter Burling at Moth worlds Photos supplied by Thierry Martinez. ©Th.Martinez. View more photos at www.thmartinez.com

Tauranga sailor Peter Burling finished fourth in the Foiling Moth worlds held recently near Newcastle.

A development class, foil moths can achieve speeds of near 30 knots. Hydrofoils on the centre board and rudder lift the hull clear of the water.

For Peter the moth worlds held at Lake Macquarie, were a break from the 49er Olympic campaign.

Its speed and innovative technology make the moth a highprofile international class. There were 112 sailors competing.

The Olympic 49er sailors were joined by top sailors from the Olympic Laser class, 18 foot skiff sailors, as well as Moth specialist sailors from around the world.

The Moth is one of the very few classes where things happen faster than the 49er, says Peter. The aim of the regatta was to have fun as well as for cross-training for fitness and agility.

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very fast up wind but not robust enough for big wind, high-speed capsizes.

Moths weigh about 30kg. Top hulls are of carbon fibre pre-preg and foam sandwich construction, giving a light, stiff hull weighing 9.5kg with paint.

Foil moth hulls fly on inverted ‘T’ foils on the rudder and centre board with ride height controlled by trailing edge flaps.

The moth worlds were first won by a foil moth in 2001. That boat was later declared a multi hull because it had three foils. The twinfoil design was then introduced and all Moth Worlds since 2004 have been won by foil moths.

Peter Burling had about 25 days total moth experience before the pre Worlds regatta– the Australian nationals - which finished a day before the worlds started.

The “Australian Moth Squad” – a group of Aussies Mothies practicing on Lake Macquarie, helped bring him up to speed and he placed an encouraging fourth at the pre-worlds. The Worlds started with a nine race qualifying round to divide the fleet into Gold and Silver fleets. Sunny conditions with wind up to 18 knots made for champagne sailing. Seaweed catching on the Moths foils was a complicating factor – to capsize to clear the weed or continue on at a slower speed?

Nathan Outteridge, Peter’s Australian 49er training partner, was dominant and top qualifier with Peter winning five of his nine races

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to be second qualifier in Gold fleet. Simon Payne GBR and Bora Gulari USA, the previous two world champions, were outside the top 10 at this stage.

Sailors took their qualifying score, which counted as a single race, into Gold or Silver fleets, with another nine races – nice for Peter taking only two points into the final stages of the regatta.

The forecast was for a solid breeze over 20 knots for the rest of the week and that is exactly what the sailors got, exciting high speed racing with the inevitable capsizes from these high performance 3.3 metre long boats. Many of the sailors recorded speeds of over 30 knots, and that was just getting to the start line.

Day one of Gold fleet was a shocker for Peter. On the first downwind in about sixth he failed to spot a silver fleeter, who wandered onto the gold fleet course. Peter’s sail clipped the other Moth’s boom during evasive actions, causing a rip in Peter’s sail. Nursing his boat around the course with the rip continuing to grow he dropped to 14th. A quick sail back to shore while the others boats sailed race two had Peter rigging an old sail up and back in time for race three.

With fresh legs Peter lead around every mark of this race to record his first win in gold fleet. Nathan Outteridge had a 1, 1, 4 day to start to take a stranglehold on the regatta.

Day two of Gold fleet was even windier. The silver fleet was held ashore while the Gold fleeters went out to do battle with the conditions, wind averaging 25 knots but coming off the shore in stronger bullets. All the leading boats were knocked down on the first reach with a scramble to right the boats to see who could get going quickest. Peter reported that after a breakage to his "heightabove-water-adjuster" from an initial capsize made his boat unstable, he capsized another 20 times but soldiered on to finish 11th. Sailors reported that the water felt like concrete when being catapulted from 1.5 metres high out of their moths at high speed. The Race

committee sent the fleet in for repairs to boats and bodies while the conditions moderated. The wind dropped sufficiently early evening for another race where Peter scored a welcome second.

For the last day of Worlds the sailors were out on the water three hours earlier than usual – hoping for lighter morning winds and to fit the last four programmed races in. The first two races were the lightest so far in Gold fleet - Peter got off to a flier scoring a 2,1 to just sneak up into third overall. As the wind increased the Laser sailors started to shine – Tom Slingsby, three times Laser World champion and International Sailor-ofthe-Year 2010 won the penultimate race (he finished seventh overall). Nathan Outteridge sealed the overall world title with a race to spare without having to sail to final race.

It was all on for the last race of the regatta, Peter being one of five sailors in with a chance of a podium finish. Scott Baggage AUS won the final race to finish third overall, Joe Turner AUS second overall, Peter Burling NZL fourth overall, Bora Gulari USA fifth.

It was Peter’s third ever Moth regatta. The next Moth Worlds, 2012 are in Italy immediately after the Olympics.

The event website is www.mothworlds.org/belmont/.

View video footage on SunLive http://www.sunlive.co.nz/ news/10630-moth-worlds-burling-fourth.html From an on scene report by Richard Burling

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Dedicated skipper recognised Since the Tauranga Yacht and Powerboat club patrol boat Harry Highet was launched in 1990, Warren Belk has been close by.

He’s one of the few who drive the boat, and Warren’s record for reliability has seen him honoured with a Yachting New Zealand service award.

Described by Peter Montgomery on awards night as being ‘as reliable as a Swiss watch’ Warren has attended every yacht club race winter and summer.

The club wanted someone dedicated and reliable and there has never been a day when people wondered if he was going to show up.

The Harry Highet is a Jim Young design built by volunteers under the yacht club building.

“Dave Peet, Colin Smith and Merv Halsey I think were the main instigators of it,” says Warren.

It was built over a period of two years and launched in December 1990.

“I pretty much got volunteered to look after it. I thought I would do it for a while and I ended up doing it basically continuously,” says Warren.

It resulted in Warren being introduced to the mysteries of course layout, which he says is one of the reasons he is still doing it.

“I’ve gotten more involved with race management through a chap called Bill Whitiskie,” says Warren. “Working with him marking lanes, stuff like that. That’s how I started off.

“And I got involved with race management for club stuff and then helping out Bill doing all the major regattas.”

Over the years Warren’s seen a lot of the young sailors come through the club, particularly through the centre board division.

“It’s mainly because of the centre board division, working with those people, working with Bill at the major regattas, is probably the only reason I’m still doing it,” says Warren.

Plus the Harry Highet.

“We had quite a large group of people involved in the boat when they first built it, and you sort of feel as though you have got to look after it.

“It’s that sense of pride I suppose. It’s something that the club’s built, and it would be a shame to see it deteriorate like most club things. Everybody uses it but nobody wants to look after it.”

They’ve reduced wear and tear by limiting the number of people who drive the boat, and through Warren keeping an eye on the maintenance.

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Impulsive sail away in Russell Imagine being in Russell when the Tall Ships & Classic Invitation Race was on.

Then imagine having the opportunity to sail on one of the most stunning classical ships on race day – “Soren Larsen”.

It wasn’t a dream. I was standing on the wharf when Soren Larsen tied up. One of the crew said that there was room for a few more fare-paying passengers. My friend, Lyn and I did not need to be persuaded.

Ten minutes later we were hoisting the sails as we prepared for the start of the race.

Vessels of all ages, shapes and sizes filled the Russell harbour. The forecast of some 25-30 knots never eventuated and there were many lulls during the race.

What a magnificent sight to see so many classic vessels out on the harbour all at once.

“R Tucker Thompson” sailed close by and started to bombard us with water bombs.

However, our crew were prepared and catapulted water bombs back.

A few hours later we sailed back into the harbour. Athena, a luxury yacht was moored nearby.

Soren Larsen cruises from Auckland to Bay of Islands during the summer season.

Check out their web site www.SorenLarsen. co.nz or phone 0800 SOREN LARSEN

Soren Larsen.

for further information. Soren Larsen is roomy with well-appointed twin bunk cabins.

Paying passengers are invited to join in to hoist the sails and help the crew.

The Tall Ships race day is a long tradition

in Russell. I don’t know where we came in the race - it didn’t matter, as everyone is there to have fun.

That evening many stories were exchanged at the hangi and race day prize

By Catherine Stewart giving.

Maketu’s multi-skilled rescue service Two surfers rescued in stormy seas at Maketu on January 23 owe their lives to the community’s multifaceted rescue service.

The Maketu Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Maketu Volunteer Coastguard are two organisations sharing personnel and equipment.

Coastguard president Shane Beech is also the volunteer fire brigade Chief Fire Officer. More than half of the fire brigade members are also coastguard members. As a rural brigade the fire brigade is also the first response organisation for medical emergencies. The nearest ambulance is at Te Puke, about 15 minutes away by road.

Pooling resources

“It’s a small community and the volunteers belong to quite a few organisations,”

says Shane. “We pool resources, skills.”

The Maketu volunteer fire brigade has had a rescue jet ski for five or six years now, says Shane.

It was replaced and updated a couple of years ago when the rescue sled was added.

“It’s housed at the fire brigade. They’ve got a rescue jet ski and a rescue IRB, they are joint assets for the fire brigade and the coastguard - so either organisation can use the gear.”

New ski

The jet ski that rescued the 19 and 20 year old Papamoa surfers at Maketu on January 23, is relatively new.

In the conditions at 5pm, which Shane describes as “gnarly and messy” the surfers had lost their boards and were trying to stay afloat in the washing machine about 200m offshore.

“This was probably an after hours call,”

says Shane. “It goes to the fire brigade then they notify the coastguard. It works like that.

“The siren goes up and that gets paged to the coastguard people and they turn up and send out whatever’s needed. It depends on the job what hat to wear and whether to turn up in a fire jacket or a wetsuit. We all rush down there, it comes over the radio what the call is.”

Horrendous seas

“That was a call where the big boat couldn’t be launched because the seas were horrendous,” says Shane. “Normally we can either get out of Maketu or the Kaituna, but yesterday the seas were so ugly we were limited. At the end of the day the jet ski was the only one that could get anywhere near them out there.”

The two men were discharged from Tauranga hospital the following day.

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New finfish farming zone proposed for the Coromandel

By Lucy Brake

The proposal seeks a new aquaculture zone of 300 hectares to be located 13.5km west of Coromandel town and 4.5km from Waimate Island in the Hauraki Gulf. The new rules will mean that fish farming applications can be lodged within this area.

The intention behind the change is that higher value aquaculture species are needed in New Zealand and, to commercialise the targeted fish species, suitable marine areas must be developed. It is likely that a wide range of species would be able to be farmed within the new Coromandel aquaculture zone, including hapuku and kingfish. However, finfish farms are expected to occupy less than half of the 300-hectare zone.

The Ministry of Fisheries estimates that to “successfully commercialise kingfish the aquaculture industry needs to produce between 4000 and 8000 tonnes of kingfish each year”. In addition, they estimate that at least 2000 tonnes of hapuku needs to

be farmed each year to commercialise the hapuku fisheries, which is a more valuable species than kingfish.

It is hoped that the allocation of marine space for fish farms in the new Coromandel aquaculture area will help promote ‘polyculture’, where a number of different fish species are farmed together.

A NIWA report, prepared for the Ministry of Fisheries, has shown polyculture has the potential to reduce some of the ecological effects of fish farms, for example finfish farming releases nitrogen, but shellfish and seaweed farming can help remove nitrogen from the water.

This proposal is considered to be of regional and national importance which warrants public discussion. This is because the plan involves finfish farming that may have effects on the environment and hapuku and kingfish farming is expected to have an impact on both the Waikato and national economies. Additionally, there is a high value placed on the coastal environment in the Coromandel which the proposed zone will potentially impact.

One of the benefits of the marine space that has been chosen is that it is considered to generally avoid potential competing uses; such as commercial shipping, ferry routes, recreational boating and fishing areas and

areas of marine mammal activity.

The Ministry of Fisheries also believes that the proposed zone will have limited impacts on significant values, including visual effects and ecological impacts.

The public is being asked to lodge submissions about the future Coromandel aquaculture area. The government has set up an Aquaculture Ministerial Advisory Panel, which is supported by the Ministry of Fisheries Aquaculture Unit to manage the public consultation process.

Consultation on the proposed Coromandel Marine Farming Zone is open until February 9, 2011 and people can have their say by contacting the Ministry of Fisheries at www.fish.govt.nz

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FOR SALE PElIN FOR SAlE - 28’, professionally built, reconditioned Nissan ED 33 110HP diesel engine, mint condition. Comes with dinghy and outboard. $49,000. Ph 07 579 4128 or 027 291 2929.

STARlING FOR SAlE - “CARPE DIEM” 1130, Professionally built & launched oct 1994, Built on same jig as “Helter Skelter” (1131), This yacht and fittings are in excellent condition Has been compliant with Bow Jig. Extras include Aluminium Beach Trolley, Road Cover and Spare Mast. Asking Price $3,900.00. Telephone 021 120 7060.

YACHT FOR SAlE - 7mtr catalina yacht trailer sailor. Trailer warranted, registered and ready for the road. Pop top cabin, sleeps four, dual batteries, VHF & CB radios, stereo system. Price $17,500 neg. Ph (07) 542 3102 or 027 628 7900.

GANlEY TIMERIDER, 38 ft Steel Sloop. Proven offshore yacht. Well maintained & equipped. Excellent condition. Professionally built 1992. Sleeps 6-7. Interior attractive light woodgrain. Large water & diesel tanks, 50hp Nissan engine, Fleming windsteering. $189,000 ph (07) 8627455 or email srlobb007@hotmail.com

STEEl lAUNCH - 30ft x 10ft. 1993? In good order. $48,000. View B46 Sulphur Point Marina. Marina berth also available. Ph 0276209712 or 07 8434392.

YACHT FOR SAlE - 7.3m Alan Wright pacer, bilge keeler in good condition, 3 gibs, 1 genoa, and spinnaker and mainsail. All in excellent order. New gib furling luffspar marine toilet, anchor winch, VHF marine radio, 8hp Long shaft mariner, new galley, very roomy stable boat, easy single handed sailing. $13,500 ono. Ph 07 576 5415.

CATAMARAN - 3yr old 11.4 mtr, Roger Simpson, Wildside, Twin 10 hp Yanmar, Diesels. 3 Queen, Size Double berth. Galley. Nav Station, Heads.

Saloon. Usual instruments. Ph 07 866 5157 or email cox.wall@xtra.co.nz.

KAURI lAUNCH - 26’ 1964 kauri launch. 60hp Ford diesel engine, cruises approx 7 knots. 6-8’ width. $28,000. Ph 549 1887 lIDGARD 7.9M - Launched approximately 1956. Kauri planked, powered by 60hp nissan diesel, 7.5 knots cuise, economical at 5 ltrs/hr cruising Accommodation for 2, toilet, gas cooker, game rigged. Electronics include VHF, GPS, chartplotter, depthsounder. Vessel is in sound condition. 027 447 2393.

WATER PUMP - 25PSI, Sureflow. As New $120. Ph 0274 333 220.

BOAT AND SUlPHUR POINT MARINA BERTH - PRICE REDUCED. 26ft hartley sedan launch. View boat and full details at berth B43, Sulphur Point. Boat $23,000 ono. 8 metre marina berth $16,036 with launch. Has cruised and fished to Mayor, the Mercs and Great Barrier. Ready to go again.

Passed insurance survey December 2010. Ph 07 543 4099 or 027 239 6445 MAIN SAIl - 7.5oz, hoist 43’ 7”, foot 14’ 9”, 5 reaths, 5 7/8 slides, very good condition. $400 ono. Ph 021 243 5555.

FOlDING PROP - briski, 16 x 12. 25mm shaft. Right handed NZ. $500 ono.

Very good condition. Ph 021 243 5555 OMOKOROA MOORING - Prime location opposite Boat Club. Suitable for up to 40ft boat $8000. Recently surveyed - September 2010. Ph 548 2314.

QUARTER SHARE IN VINDEx 10 METRE lAUNCH - Shaft drive, 180 hp Ford Diesel Turbo, Sleeps 6, two showers, 3 steering stations cruises 10-12 kts. This syndicate has been operating successfully for 6yrs. A great opportunity to enjoy the pleasures a launch offers whilst sharing the costs. Based at Tauranga Bridge Marina. Price $20,000 Ph 548 2314.

YACHT - Moonraker 26ft keeler. 5 sails, 4 stroke vovlo 2 cyl inboard motor.

Fully serviced. Starts every time. Hummingbird depth sounder, marine radio, radio cassette, toilet, gully, includes 2 burner stove. 6 berth. 20l water tank, 20l fuel tank, last slip March 2010. Draft 4’6”, 8’ 2” beam. 2m fibreglass dinghy. $12000. 07 548 2114 or 027 548 2114.

ZEPHYR - No 239, tidy condition. For further information, phone Doug 07 884 6815 or 027 208 8383. $3500 ono.

BERTH - Bridge marina (J6). 12m berth. $49,000. Phone 021 485 765 MOORING - Te Puna Estuary. Ph Dave Watson 552 6662.

OUTBOARD MOTOR - Honda 9.9hp 4 stroke 2000 model low hours.

Recently serviced new plugs, gear and crancase oil, spark plugs and impeller. $2000 ono. Phone Jim 5422036.

HARTlEY TS18 - ‘Antares’ is in really good condition. Trailer has WOF. She has been beautifully built inside and out with painted wood interior and can sleep up to 4 people. Comes with Honda 5HP outboard motor with stand for easy storage. Drop keel makes her a great family boat for going to places in and around the harbour. She has had new aluminium mast and rigging by Mike McCormack and new winch and guide bars added to trailer, for easy launch and retrieval. All ready to go for 2011. Asking price $4,500 ono.

Phone Ian Gray 07 578 5022 or 027 572 9439.

MARINA BERTH - 12m, Bridge marina G25. Good location with plenty of parking. With mooring lines and corner wheel. Currently rented month to month. Must sell so present reasonable offer. $50,000 inc. Phone Hm 5767748 4.95 AlUINIUM MAST AND SAIl - plus centre board, rudder and anchor.

All in V.G. condition. Open to reasonable offers. Please ring 576 0294 (has answer phone).

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MOORING - town reach by Kestrel. Newly surveyed. Ph 578 0230 or 027 491 5616.

MOORING - Waikareao Estuary. Ph 578 0230 or 027 491 5616.

MOORING - Tanners Point. Excellent position, available for rent or for sale.

Ph 07 570 0333 MOORING - Omokoroa, best position. For rent or for sale. Ph 07 570 0333.

MOORING to rent or buy Tanners Point. Ph 0274 915 616.

MOORING - Omokoroa. Phone 021 114 739.

MOORING TO lEASE - Tanners Point. Suit launch or multihull. Long term. ph 5490091 SWING MOORING - for rent or sale at Tanners Point. Recently serviced. Ph 578 0230 or 027 491 5616.

WANTED

SWING MOORING by Tauranga Bridge marina. Long term. For 8 tonne boat. Phone 021 963 399.

MOORING TO BUY - either Bridge marina area or slipway side of Pier at Omokoroa. Phone 0276 769 802.

SHARES IN lAUNCH - and marina berth. 30 to 40 feet. Cash buyer, what have you? Phone Malcolm 576 6443 AERIAl FOR HUMMINGBIRD GPS SOUNDER - model NS25. Phone 027 273 5935 or 579 0180 MOORING TO BUY - Te Puna, shallow mooring fine. email simon.ifes@ gmail.com. Phone 07 552 4694 WANTED TO RENT: Swing mooring for 25ft yacht, also short term marina berth. Phone/text Marc, 027 200 2316.

MOORING TO RENT - Pilot Bay over Christmas and New Year for 6.5 tonne Catamaran. Phone Dennis 07 863 8450.

DIRECTORY

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BATTERIES

FISHING & DIVING

Ph/Fax: 07 578 8056 25 Marsh Street, Tauranga 0274 894 056

Ph/Fax 07 575 9056 15 Newton St, Mount Maunganui Ph/Fax 573 4493 155 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke 50 Cross Road, Sulphur Point, Tauranga Ph: 571 2156

Battery Warehouse

Battery Direct NZ Free delivery in NZ www.BatteryDirect.co.nz sales@batterydirect.co.nz 0800 267 468

BOAT MAINTENANCE GemCo Ltd

R63 Hewletts Rd, Mount Maunganui Ph 572 2411

Hutcheson Boatbuilders Ph:07-578 8312

Matamata Motor Trimmers & Upholstery Boat clears, canvas work, upholstery Ph: 07 571 4421 Cnr Mirrielees & Cross Roads, Tauranga

Mercury Bay Boatyard

Ph: 07 866 4637 Yard: 3 Moewai Rd, Whitianga Refits, repairs, painting, maintenance

Oceanz Stainless Engineering Ph:07-571 4130 30-34 Mirrielees Road, Tauranga www.southernoceanmarine.co.nz

BOAT SALES

Challenger Boats

142 Newton Road, Mount Maunganui Ph 07 575 0497 www.challengerboats.co.nz

Gulf Group Marine Brokers

Big Fish Bait and Tackle Co

Blue Ocean Charters Ltd Ph 0800 224 278 www.blueocean.co.nz email: info@blueocean.co.nz

Mount Dive Shop

15 Newton Street, Mount Maunganui Ph: 575 4418

Tauranga Marine Charters MV Manutere Brett Keller Ph: 07 552 6283 0274 351 353 Email: fishingcharters@xtra.co.nz

INSURANCE

Tauranga Insurance Ph: 571 0405 195 Devonport Rd, Tauranga

KAYAKING

Canoe & Kayak BOP Ph:574 7415 3/5 MacDonald St, Mt Maunganui OPEN 7 DAYS 9-5pm

Viking Kayaks

Specialising in fishing and recreational kayaks.

0800 529 253 www.vikingkayaks.co.nz

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MARINA

07-578 8312

RIGGING

Tauranga Bridge Marina

Hutcheson Boatbuilders

Ph: 07 575 8264 Fax: 07 575 8369 VHF: Ch 73 “Bridge Marina”

Mastertech Marine

Mike McCormick

60 Whiore Avenue, The Lakes, Tauriko Tauranga Ph:579 4240 www.mastertech.co.nz

Tauranga Boat Sales

Bridge Marina, Harbour Bridge Ph: 07-575 0512 www.taurangaboatsales.co.nz

CHANDLERY

Steves Marine Supplies Ph: 07 578 9593 18 Cross Road, Sulphur Point, Tauranga

DELIVERIES Ross Hislop

Ph: 07 543 1023, mob 0274 770078 Email: hislopra@xtra.co.nz

ELECTRONICS

Bay Marine Electronics Steven Gillett Ph: 07 577 0250 www.baymarineelectronics.co.nz

FINANCE

AFB Accept Finance Brokers Ph: 07 574 0002

Ph: 578 3071 59 Mirrielees Rd, Tauranga

TRAILERS

Prescott Trailers

Ph 07-573 9130 29 Station Rd, Te Puke www..prescotttrailers.co.nz

Greerton Engineering Ph 541 0024 64 Maleme Street TAURANGA www.greertoneng.co.nz

CLUB CONTACTS Omokoroa Boat Club John Budden Ph: 548 1180 Alan Roberts Ph: 579 1967

Tauranga Game Fishing Club Keith Allen Dr, Sulphur Point Tauranga Ph: 578 6203

Tauranga Marine Industry Assn.

PO Box 13303 Tauranga Ian Madden Ph: 544 7167

Tga Yacht & Power Boat Club PO Box 14352 Tauranga Ph 578 5512

HYDROPLANES

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Hydroplanes cancelled

The Hydroplane Masport Cup is going to be raced on Lake Karapiro on February 5-6 following the cancellation of the Tauranga event because of bad weather.

They got in a day’s practice on the Saturday, but the storm on January 23 saw it cancelled.

The decision was made about 7am on the Sunday, says New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplanes Drivers Club president Dave

Alexander. “They decided to pull the pin, let everyone get home that wanted to. The forecast was that it wasn’t going to improve.’

While some did leave for home early, others stayed and sheltered in Tauranga bars.

Length Feet

Total $ Cost

Length Feet

Total $ Cost

Length Feet

Total $ Cost

27

847

37

1533

46

2179

28

910

38

1606

47

2265

29

980

39

1668

48

2353

30

1048

40

1731

49

2450

31

1124

41

1798

50

2550

32

1194

42

1869

51

2655

33

1260

Sternlegs

185

52

2725

34

1324

43

1954

53

2830

35

1387

44

2023

54

2850

36

1459

45

2096

55

2970

55+

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Huge weekend ahead at Karapiro

“I think it would have been cheaper in the water actually,” says Dave.

They don’t often have to cancel hydroplanes because of weather, but Dave believes they would have cancelled no matter where they were.

“Lake Karapiro is the most solid course, I’ve never seen that cancelled,” says Dave. “But I would say that in the conditions round the country Karapiro would have been cancelled as well.”

The GP hydroplanes can race in up to about half a metre of chop, says Dave, and in wind speeds of up to 30-40kmh, depending on surface conditions. The hydroplanes would not even have gotten up on the plane in the wind chop blown across the harbour in Sunday’s strong easterly winds, says Dave.

“We are pretty well ready for Karapiro now, everyone has had a good test run on Saturday,” says Dave.

“It wasn’t ideal, but at least no one’s wrecked anything. It should be good to go for Karapiro. It will be a huge weekend over there.

The Masport Cup will be raced at Lake Karapiro on February 5, with the AE Baker Cup raced on Sunday February 6.

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OLIVER & GILPIN

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Days when boats were wood There’s a family of Taurangabuilt game fishing launches that represent a former era, from the days when boats were built of wood, and there were more fish in the sea.

Tauranga he formed a business partnership with Captain Don Munro, running a slip at the base of First Avenue.

Ted Gilpin was born in Waihi in 1928 and grew up in Tauranga before joining the navy. He served in Korea and left in 1953 after six years.

From the mid 50s to 1967, Willie Oliver and Ted Gilpin built boats with a reputation for quality of build, sea keeping and safety.

In Tauranga he worked for charter operator Gerry Williams taking out fishing parties and towing barges. Ted and Willie met at the slip in 1954. Willie asked Ted if he would teach his daughter Betty how to sail. Ted and Betty married in 1955, and Willie and Ted built their first boat in Robbins Road Judea in 1956, to replace Lady Joyce.

The Lady Karen was a twin-engined game fishing launch 40ft long with a beam of 11’6” (12.19m x 3.5m) and named after Ted and Betty’s recently arrived daughter.

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Pohutukawa touch

Largely designed by Peter Parsons, whom Willie had worked with at Bailey and Lowe, the Lady Karen was the only Oliver and Gilpin launch to have a naturally curved pohutukawa stem.

She was carvel built in kauri on laminated Australian hardwood frames with solid 2in (50mm) mahogany cabin sides. Her side decks were solid kauri 12” by 2” (304 x 50mm). Lady Karen had accommodation for eight and was launched at Sulphur Point in 1957.

Powered by twin Fordson 60 hp diesels, Lady Karen was then the largest and most luxurious launch in the game fishing fleet.

They damaged her in 1959 returning

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Brian Worthington at Gulf Group Marine Brokers keeps an eye on them. There are three currently on the market; Canopus asking $90,000, Noelani, open to offers; and Anna Marie asking $68,000.

They were built as sedan game fishers, displacement launches lacking fly bridges.

Many have since had ‘sheds’ added to the superstructure, but a younger Willie Oliver was on board a launch that capsized drowning one of the crew, and the experience may have influenced his design philosophy.

Over nearly 20 years from 1956 until the early 1970s, the boat building partnership launched about a boat a year, first from Willie’s back yard in Robins Road, then a shed on the Wairoa, and later from Sulphur Point.

Willoughby Oliver was raised in Devonport, served his apprenticeship at Bailey and Lowe in Auckland where he worked until 1926.

He farmed in Pukekawa before building a launch Lady Joyce which he motored around the top to Tauranga in 1953. In

3a Landscape Road Tauranga Email: w.oldham@clear.net.nz

Tel: 07 576 3009 Fax: 07 576 3092 Mobile: 027 627 5448

Oliver and Gilpin launches from left Nautilus and Margaret Anne, and Noelani.

from the Mayor in a south west gale with two couples on board. She fell off a wave, breaking the arm of one of the customers – and cracking the engine room bulkhead when the hull flexed.

Stepping it up

They decided to build bigger and stronger, again with the Parsons design input and with the help of Messrs Reid, Elliott and Pope. Lady Margaret had full length 12”x 4”engine beds.

The trend setting 42ft (12.8m) Lady Margaret was built in the new workshop on the Wairoa and launched in 1959. She was described as ‘outstandingly stylish’.

The curves linking the sheer and deckhouse were a move away from the usual stepped sheer of the day, and became a design stamp for future Oliver and Gilpin designs..

Lady Margaret sparked orders, with their first commission being a sister ship, the 42ft Margaret Anne ordered by Jack Stevens.

Sons on board

Willie’s son John and Ted’s brother Jimmy joined the team, along with Brian Schinkle and apprentice Roger Ward.

Joanne, a 42 ft twin engined version of continued...

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Family stamp leads way for future

...continued

Lady Margaret was launched in 1962.

Like all Oliver & Gilpin boats she was designed on the half model, with offsets taken.

They were all carvel kauri built on close set frames of Australian karri.

Forming the company

In late 1962 the construction of 45 ft (13.7) Noelani saw the formation of Oliver & Gilpin Ltd with Ted and Betty as shareholders.

In 1965 Ted relocated Oliver & Gilpin Ltd to Sulphur Point. The 42 ft Nautilus with 11’9” beam drawing 4’ (12.8 x 3.58 x1.2m) was launched there in June 1964.

Willie built 32ft (9.7m) Waimarie at the Wairoa in 1965 and 42ft twin engined Carousel in December 1967.

At Sulphur Point O&G built the 38ft (11.58m) Matangi motor sailor Puriwai, the Laura Mae 45ft and 42ft Canopus in 1965.

In 1966 they launched Balsona - 48ft (14.6m), Anna Marie 32ft (9.75m) and the 30ft (9.14m) steel yacht Concise.

Dorothy – the last of the line to bear the O&G stamp. Ted deregistered the company, sold the yard and moved to Australia in 1968.

John Oliver managed the yard and persuaded Ted to take over its management when he returned from Cairns in 1973.

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Royal boating

Anna Marie was built for the Queen. Bill Stevenson, later Sir William, wanted a purpose built trout fishing boat for his Lake Rotoiti lodge which was to be used by HM QE II during a visit.

In 1966 they built a twin engined steel scow for transport of 30 head of cattle between slipper island, Whangamata, Motiti and Tauranga.

In 1967 the company launched 42ft Waimarie II, and 45ft

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Game fishing begins The great spell of weather continues in The Bay and the fishing can only be described as great as well.

With reports of patches of water up to 22 degrees and numerous sightings of striped marlin hanging around the Bay, it was only a matter of time before the first fish was weighed for the area.

Strangely even with all the stripies around, the first fish was a blue at a shade under the 200kg mark. Caught around the Alderman rise, a stripy tagged from the same area by the same boat a day or so later. There have been a lot of reports of fish hooked up, but not many sticking, a review of the gear may be required.

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The Tauranga Game Fishing Club held their annual Tuna Tournament mid January. One marlin weighed, two tagged, one yellow fin around the 60kg mark, four shortbilled spearfish and a few mahi mahi.

There are good schools of bait around Astrolabe, The Penguins and Schooner Rock, skippies, trevally and kahawai making up the bulk with the odd smaller school of saury out a bit further.

The Tauranga and Bowentown ends of the harbour have seen the most solid run of kingfish in years, any number of rats closer to the surface but some good solid beasts down a bit deeper. Landing the big one can be a real challenge with the numbers of obstacles around, fish to 25kg landed, the bigger specimens some estimated at over 30kg are there but generally leave the gear in tatters; shredded around pylons, buoys and anchor warps.

Nice sized snapper

The snapper fishing in the harbour has been exceptional, good numbers of nice sized fish. A burley trail set on dusk and nice oily baits deployed on a 20m trace is the way to target the snaps’ and avoid the eagle rays. Day time fishing can also be productive but you have to be a lot more specific about the area being targeted.

The surfcasters report more consistent fishing, more snapper closer in now and still good numbers of kahawai. Day time sets of the beach longlines bring patchy results, the evening sets as usual a lot more productive.

Strayling and softbaiting over the sand on dusk producing some lovely fish, middle of the day fishing in this area is slow and the plague of ravenous undersized snapper there in full strength. The inner reefs still holding good numbers of tarakihi. One boat got 40 between four anglers in an hour at A Beacon just outside The Mount Entrance on an evening fish. Followed by a quick strayline and a few nice solid snapper, to finish off a successful evening outing.

Bait fishing for snapper during the day can be slow. Fish are in spawning mode so are protecting territory during daylight hours.

Targeting them with softbaits has been working as a moving bait seems to trigger that defensive response, fish being hooked as they strike at the moving bait.

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The odd Easterly blow has helped bring the fish and food in, the nice fine prolonged spells of sunshine and light winds have made the opportunities to head out plentiful, long may it continue.

February marks the start of the game tournaments in the area, as well as a plethora of other competitions both surfcasting and boat fishing. The snapper fishing normally picks up during this period, if it gets any better, it will be the best for years, not that the last 4-5 years have been bad. Topped of by the exceptional run of kingfish, the next few months should be full on.

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Watch the basics The Coastguard is reminding divers to watch the basics after volunteers in the central region spent more than 200 hours on diving related incidents in recent weeks.

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Divers are reminded to re familiarise themselves with important diving basics, says Coastguard President Colin Small.

“The majority of divers are responsible and cover off the safety requirements each time they go out on the water, but the volunteer hours have increased notably, so we do ask divers to be vigilant and careful in getting back to the basics,” says Mr Small.

Volunteers hours spent on diving incidents were more than doubled by two major dive related stories from the Wellington region over the summer says Coastguard Central Region manager Phil Polero.

Acting Eastern region manager Baz Kirk says divers and the boating public generally have been well behaved across the region.

He says apart from the jetski fatality in Rotorua there have been no big incidents.

“It’s been pretty good for us,” says Baz. Divers are reminded at all times to: Dive with a buddy Know your limitations Don’t dive if you are feeling unwell Service your gear regularly Tell someone reliable where and when you are diving Plan the dive and dive the plan Carry and use a dive sausage Use a dive flag For more information about Coastguard New Zealand visit www.coastguard.co.nz

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COREENA

Crossed Cook Strait 84 times

Her first voyage was crossing Cook Strait and since then the 11.7m ketch Coreena has done it 84 times.

redesigned and renamed by I Chaplin between 1967 - 1969.

She then became Whangarei-based and sailed to Fiji, The Solomons and then moved to Australia where she is believed to have sailed the Great Barrier Reef and continued Co Immediately following her launch at Foxton in a reen around the coast to Adelaide. She also made a 1936 as the Maputu, Coreena sailed across Cook a a t Ta u ra n g number of trans Tasman crossings.

Strait to the Aorere River mouth at Collingwood Coreena comes to Tauranga through trade/swap/etc where she was shown off to the family of the then owner. arrangement that sees her in the hands of a launch man who wants to sell her to an appreciative sailor.

The wooden hulled ketch now lying at Sulphur Point has an Coreena was built at Stallards yard in Levin and launched on the extensive sailing history. As well as the Cook Strait crossings, Manawatu River by the Whirikino bridge.

Coreena also finished mid fleet in the Lyttelton/Wellington race She was launched fully rigged and her mast fouled a power line. where 14 started only seven finished.

Another boat had to come alongside while the mast was unstepped.

She’s been around, but is well maintained. After her South Island The drama was photographed and is still on the wall of the Foxton days, Coreena was sold to a Wellington owner during the war, and Hotel. later moved to New Plymouth during the late 1960s.

By Andrew Campbell Orignially named Maputa, the ketch was rebuilt,

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Tim’s still heading south Kayaker Tim Taylor was back on the water on January 24, following an extended stay in Dunedin.

Heavy seas kept him ashore for nearly a week after he was driven into Port Chalmers by heavy fog on January 19.

The enforced shore leave also made time for other things to be resolved after the theft of his Spot tracker and helmet cam at All Day Bay on January 16.

The property was recovered later in the week by Oamaru police who arrested a 30 year old woman in connection with the theft.

Tim’s plan is to round the Otago Peninsula and paddle on towards the Catlins. He’s planned a stop near the Clutha River mouth before crossing Foveaux Strait to round Stewart Island.

The plan is to treat it the same as Cook Strait, to wait for the right conditions and cross in one hit. At about 20km it is less than a full day paddle, says Tim. “I’ll be treating it carefully, but try and hit it right across,” says Tim. “By getting the weather window, and being very careful with it, I think we should get through it.”

He’s not intending to land at Half Moon Bay because that’s a bit of a paddle in, says Tim. Tim’s Spot tracker resumed operation on Monday after being down since the theft.

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There are people from at least 25 different countries watching Tim’s progress on-line says his website designer Paul Evans.

Tim’s Spot tracker page has received 18,000 hits since he departed Tauranga on November 27. The page receives about 300 hits a day.

“It’s pretty good,” says Paul. “I’m guessing some people might be going straight to the Spot page and they won’t be going via the website.”

Tim paddled out of Tauranga on November 27 intending to become the first person to kayak round New Zealand in a single voyage. The voyage is about 5,500km and he’s expecting to take about six months.

By Andrew Campbell

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Diagrams and charts that cause disasters I got into trouble the other day. There was a bloke off a research vessel studying something in the bay. I had heard it had to do with mussel farms or some such but anyway I had a conversation that went something like this.

to stuff the ocean, you supply the blue print to the safe so you are just as guilty as the robbers in my book.

Stuffing up the ocean

‘You are complicit in the continuing destruction of the ocean and so I think you are one of those that is stuffing up the ocean’.

‘I am not like that, I am an environmental“Hi mate, what are you doing out there? ist, I even do volunteer work with DOC!’ Are you trying to find even more ways to

By Graeme Butler ‘My case rests mate, what have DOC ever stuff up the ocean?’ done for the Ocean? I know it signed off Oh, hello, you’re off that dolphin boat 11,000 hectares for mussel farms locally so that masses of plankton aren’t you? Must be amazing. can be slurped up to the detriment of all species living off that plank‘Well it may be amazing but because of people like you I don’t

know for how much longer. Why are you determined to stuff up the ocean?’

‘No, I’m not stuffing up the ocean, I am just doing research so I don’t stuff up anything.’

‘I don’t believe you. You draw the charts for those who do want

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ton right now. In my view that is an act of vandalism. So you, like them, are part of the problem in my view!’.

He go a bit heated at this point and told me to ‘FFFFFFF OFF’.

I thought that he was a bit rude, I was sitting in the café and I didn’t start swearing, besides he was visiting from some foreign place. I assume he was an academic, but he may not have been. He didn’t seem as rational and impassive as scientists are supposed to be, or as smart. He was not very polite to an old bugger like me.

I got into trouble a few years ago at an appeals hearing for the consents for the Bridge Marina.

The conversation was with an engineer who had just put a pie diagram on the white board that showed the distances from the centre of the proposed marina to the shore across the cardinal points of the compass. continued...

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There’s nothing like experience ...continued

There was no reference to a chart of Tauranga harbour so I drew the harbour entrance approximately on the diagram and it fitted into an area where the figures relating to fetch, wind speeds and wave heights was vacant.

That was the area that I thought was the most significant because in a northerly wind the fetch was pretty much infinite and so the waves generated would be the most significant in the marina area.

Anyway I pointed this out the conversation went something like this: ‘Why have you not supplied figures for winds from this direction since that is the most significant fetch and the worst weather is likely to come from there?’ I asked.

‘There was no need!’ Said the engineer.

“Not so,’ I replied. ‘There is every need, you say that a wave height of more than 70cm is not possible and I can tell you from experience that it is not only possible here (I was on a mooring for some years before the marina was built where it is) but sometimes the waves in this part of the harbour are significant and my vessel, which is 60 odd feet has been seen to pitch it’s bows into the waves right to the deck while on its mooring. I think you are deliberately misleading the hearing.’

Challenging qualifications

That put the shag among the fish. At this point the angry but restrained engineer challenged my qualification.

‘I have been an engineer for many years, what qualifications have you got?’

‘This is a resource consents hearing open to all members of the public so I have every right to be here.’

I showed a couple of pictures of marinas that had failed catastrophically.

Each photo showed large expensive vessels piled up on the shore.

Tangled among them were the remains of the floats and timbers.

‘Each of these projects had an engineer just like you in charge of them mate!’ I pointed out. “Don’t you think it would be better to address all these issues here so that an expensive mistake won’t happen in the future?’

I was stopped at this point and the consent was eventually granted.

Since the marina was built there has been trouble during heavy weather from the north.

The consent should not have been granted for a marina that is not up to standard.

As a result of the flawed resource consents process and the granting of the application berth users risk their vessels but there is nowhere else to put the boats.

Without the management and staff, who are brilliant in my opinion, the Tauranga Bridge Marina would be almost unusable for a vessel like Gemini Galaxsea. Something should be done.

There is too much current and not enough protection from the northerly weather, two simply obvious conditions to any skipper with experience in the area.

So, I wish that the engineers had done a better job designing this marina, that the consents process hadn’t been blinkered to the obvious problems and that they can now, without any further b#llsh*t get on with getting a solution.

Just as I wish all those people that are out there, looking and studying and presenting information for highly destructive resource stripping activities, like these damn mussel farms, the very worst for their future, since that seems to be the most probable outcome of all this research for every other species in this part of the ocean.

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Rainbow Warrior III in the works Greenpeace is building a 58m sailing ship to replace the 52 year old existing Rainbow Warrior II which is a converted trawler.

Rainbow Warrior III is currently being fitted out at the Fassmer shipyard in Bremen. The hull was built at Maritim, Gdansk in Poland, and towed across the Baltic to the Fassmer yard in Bremen in November.

Launch

The Rainbow Warrior III is scheduled for launch in October this year to coincide with Greenpeace’s 40th birthday celebrations.

The new Rainbow will have 50 metre tall A frame masts supporting a hydraulic driven ail handling system. She will have accommodation for about 30 people and a secure communications centre.

Hull

The Rainbow Warrior II is steel hulled with an aluminium wheelhouse.

The 860 deadweight tonne ship has a beam of 11 metres and a draught of 5.15m. She has a 1425kw Caterpillar main engine, a bow thruster and a service speed of 15 knots. She is expected to be mainly sail driven.

The new ship sports Fassmer A frame davits, a helicopter landing pad and on board helifuel station. She also comes with a provision crane and a working crane, an active anode system, exhaust gas cleaning system and an on board fresh water generating plant.

By Andrew Campbell

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