Bad Kitty 252 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Anyone been in here before? Understand it's only good with no easterly for the entrance, anything else anyone can share? Thanks, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Gum 17 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 see my post here: http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/7610-parengarenga/?hl=parengarenga Posted 28 February 2013 - 09:24 PM Went in over the Parengarenga Bar and overnighted there a couple of weeks ago. We had ideal conditions with a very light SW. There were still breakers on the bar and the south side spit with about a half metre swell. We arrived at the bar with 2 hours of tide in at dawn and just watched the bar for about an hour. Sent a man halfway up the mast and headed in skirting the break on the spit. The gap to the breakers in the middle of the bar would have been about 100m or less. The depth came up very quickly to about 4.5m minimum and we soon angled to the right to find deeper water inside the outside break. A little further in about level with the dunes the gap in the breakers was only about 50m but the water was deep, turbulent and running at 3 knots. Once past this narrow part there was some shallowing back to about 4.5m and we angled left towards the sandhills and dropped into the channel proper where there is plenty of water and just followed the plotter around to the left channel and anchored in a sheltered spot with about 8m of water. The plotter could not really be relied upon on the outer bar as it has shifted a bit from when the chart was made. Mark 1 eyeball was the answer. Up the mast was not a lot of use either as the sand was quite stirred up by the current. We draw 2.1 m and had no problems and it was definitely a buzz to visit the place. I would not attempt it though in any bad weather particularly with any easterly. It would also be easy to be trapped there. We went out again at low water no problem with a least depth of about 4m. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Gum 17 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 IT – if you are looking In my original post there were some photos – do they disappear after a certain time ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,230 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 CG, nope, but when we changed to the new software, some photos did not come across and were lost, sorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Gum 17 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Parenga track Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bad Kitty 252 Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Awesome, thanks Chewing Gum, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Gum 17 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 No worries Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 What sort of boat speed did you have going in and out? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Gum 17 Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 There were no breakers where we crossed Varying speed up to our normal cruising of around 7 knots Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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