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Do you mean the Poor Knights and not the Three Kings? Three Kings are north of North Cape & Cape Reinga.

The area between Cape Brett, Poor Knights and Bream Head is excluded to heavy shipping, to avoid the risk of a Rena type catastrophic incident with the oil tankers coming into Marsden Point. I can't remember the tonnage, it is on the note. Either 50 tonnes or 500 tonnes. Due to the whole Tutukaka Coast being one of the top 10 coasts in the world, and the Poor Knights being such a valuable reserve and marine habitat.

Yachts and launches etc can go up there freely.

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Yes, sorry... "Poor Knights" .... simple error for an aging South Islander who had never been in the area before.... yes Harry Tom...Confused

Thanks for the reply.

Yes it is a beautiful area, we only flew by on a delivery trip, only stopping at Matauri bay for a night.

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Psyche said:

nice boat!

Thanks... yes she is a little special. Was in Bays water for a few years, just relocated back to the top of the SI...

Dr Bob on the forum has a photo of her in the sounds... Other photos below were new sailing with builder and in Bayswater about 10 years ago

 

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9 minutes ago, Clipper said:

Nice shiny new rigging too?

 

yeeeeessss... that you Max?

New standing and running rigging... would not be so shiny had the the rigger found un-chromed turn buckles 

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31 minutes ago, LBD said:

yeeeeessss... that you Max?

New standing and running rigging... would not be so shiny had the the rigger found un-chromed turn buckles 

Its not, but I hauled him up and down a few times and held the dumb end of the tape :-)

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2 minutes ago, Clipper said:

Its not, but I hauled him up and down a few times and held the dumb end of the tape :-)

Thanks for that then... he must have done an okay job, the stick was still standing after a bit of a blow approaching Nelson.

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