Kayaker in Tasman

[erice 732]

an endeavor like that

 

requires a little weather luck

 

he didn't get it

 

clouds could tell him all the weather that was coming

 

but he's not a fast multi

 

he couldn't race around

 

using the edges of depressions to go even faster

[ex TL systems 63]

The weather certainly made it hard this year. Another year could have been a lot easier. Around 15 or so years ago [true story] a couple left Tasmania in a small fibreglass yacht bound for New Plymouth, not far into the trip they were hit with rough weather and were winched off by helicopter abandoning the yacht a few hundred miles or less off tasmania. Some 3 months later on a rough Sunday morning the yacht drifted across the New Plymouth harbour entrance and was wrecked on the rocks that front the center of the city, 300m from the post office, A local saw it coming and attempted to lift it onto land before it struck but the crane was too small, there was little to salvage as the ballast was not lead but steel punchings in resin. personal belongings were collected and the owners flew over to see the wreckage. The day before had been sunny with light winds and the boat had been seen not far off the city but people thought it was just someone fishing. Weird that the owners could have stayed aboard, done nothing, and the yacht would have delivered them to their destination, although it was a pretty slow trip.

[erice 732]

now it seems he would like someone to go retrieve his boat before the spot tracker runs out of power

[Guest]

I see his kayak has washed up on the back of some cow cockys farm in the Naki ,probaly end up as a duck punt.

[Guest]

I see his kayak has washed up on the back of some cow cockys farm in the Naki ,probaly end up as a duck punt.

It has been taken ashore and it is going to be taken around to various schools it the area as a show and tell till he gets back from overseas