Mid week - great weather for

It has not gone unnoticed that the mid- week weather is definitely better than the weekends. Today was a very nice day on the water - improved if your boat played the game and moved at your command!

Today's callout was to a twin engine, 11m launch that was having gearbox issues, so was motoring up from Auckland to the Mahurangi Harbour on one engine, to lift out and get repairs.

Unfortunately, gearbox number two went out in sympathy just off the end of Whangaparaoa, halting progress to the boat lift.

We departed Sandspit at midday and had soon tracked down the - now anchored- launch. A nice hook up onto the towing eye was followed by a slow tow north. The boat was both quite heavy and also had a pretty dirty hull, so we were all in cruise mode.

By the time we arrived at the Mahurangi harbour, the tide was ebbing, preventing us getting up the river, so we left the launch at anchor - minus the food, beer & dinghy they'd unloaded and left behind to make the boat lighter for slipping.....and we headed back to Sandspit.

Thanks to today's crew of Craig, Tim, Len & Luke, all of whom refrained from fishing, but did get twitchy when passing schools of fish! Here's hoping the weather lasts until the weekend