Thursday 19 May 2011

Royal NZ Navy in Whangamumu

We've had a mostly pleasant sail up the coast but nowhere near enough wind - below 10 knots most of the way. We are now in Whangamumu and it is a windless beautiful evening - about 1630. On the way in here we saw one of the RNZN patrol boats to seaward of us travelling south at high speed. They must have seen us and they slowed and altered course towards us. Quite a majestic sight seeing one of these heading straight towards with a high bow wave!! We thought of mounting the 4.7 on the foredeck and firing a warning shot across their bows but then thought better of it!! They launched a fast inflatable as the ship was probably a bit big to come right in and they came alongside and gave us a searching look before going in further and checking out another yacht already anchored in the bay. No doubt looking for yachts that might have already cleared Customs and then decided to quietly anchor for the night. Definitely against the rules. Just as well we hadn't cleared already!
Into the Bay of Islands tomorrow - Cape Brett is only 5 miles north of us here.
Cheers..............

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