Hokianga Bar Crossing

On the 14 July 1928 the schooner ketch Isabella de Fraine was sunk while crossing the bar at Hokianga with the loss of 8 lives. Volunteers including radio operators are available all day every day to assist anybody in a spot of bother while crossing the often dangerous Hokianga Bar.

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Hokianga bar crossing. Analysis - Crossing bars into New Zealand harbours in rough seas is a treacherous task for the most skilful of boat skippers. Things to do in the Hokianga. Having circumnavigated New Zealand via the Auckland Islands we were caught out by the weather as we headed North up the West Coast.

It is navigable for small craft for much of its length although there is a bar across the mouth. Smaller harbours like Ngunguru Pataua and Whananaki can also be difficult to transit in certain weather conditions. She had been well known to the Auckland shipping scene plying her way along the Northern New Zealand coastline carrying goods from one port to the other.

Police say the deceased was one of three on board the boat when it flipped at the entrance to Hokianga Harbour. She had been well known to the Auckland shipping scene plying her way along the Northern New Zealand coastline carrying goods from one port to the other. Having taken shelter.

Before you cross a bar. For even longer migratory birds have fattened themselves. The result was deadly.

Shallow and dotted with islands its warm waters have long been a major food resource for local iwi. The Hokianga bar is extremely dangerous and 16 ships were lost with most coming to grief leaving fully laden and becoming caught in deep water with a change in the wind as steering was lost and the ship was swept onto the rocky shore. The new vehicle ferry Kohu Ra Tuarua takes up to 21 cars a crossing providing a fast comfortable trip across the Hokianga Harbour.

Bar harbours in Northland include Herekino Hokianga Kaipara Mangawhai and Pārengarenga and Whāngāpē. On Saturday Francie captain Bill McNatty took what one local described as a coin toss risk - to cross the Kaipara Harbour bar with 10 passengers on board. One of Earles shipmates a sailor by the name of John Martin stayed behind in the Hokianga becoming the first European settler in Omapere and the harbours first pilot.

Im really new to boat fishing game and was wondering if the Hokianga Harbor is safe for tinny fishing. The Hokianga Harbour from the lookout point above Omapere. Crossing the bar at the Hokianga Heads circa 1900.

Harbour The Hokianga Harbour is unique in many ways not least for the stunning 150m high sand dunes which frame the north side of the entrance to the harbour. Coastguard Hokianga has been active in the area since 1996. At any one time as many as 20 ships could be loading Hokianga timber.

Sadly on that afternoon the weather was not kind to her nor her crew. Check weather and tides for. The estuary extends inland for 30 kilometres 19 mi from the Tasman Sea.

Police say the deceased was one of three men on board the boat when it flipped at the entrance to. East of Whakatane in a sparsely populated segment of the Bay of Plenty lies one of the countrys smaller and less well-known harbours. Hokianga also run a junior training unit.

Photographers title on negative - bottom centre - Crossing the Bar N. Is the Herald of Saturday it. CAPTAIN WASHED OVERBOARD AND DROWNED.

The Isabella de Fraine On the 14 July 1928 the schooner ketch Isabella de Fraine was sunk while crossing the bar at Hokianga with the loss of 8 lives. In the 1830s he set up a signal station above South Head to guide ships across the bar. A man has died after a boat capsized while crossing the notorious Hokianga Bar.

A harbour bar which took a mans life as he attempted to cross it is known for its. SWEPT BY A BIG SEA. What went wrong on the Kaipara bar.

I have no intention of crossing the bar or even getting to close to the entrance the water seems to be moving really fast around Opononi and Omapere I have a 13ft Packercraft with an 8 bhp. Waves rolled the ketch over and all 8. Was announced that Captain Bernard McDemott of the three-masted stow Hawk had been washed overboard whilst the vessel was crossing the Hokianga bar inward bound from Dunedin.

12000 years ago the Hokianga was a river valley flanked by steep bush-clad hills. In the early days of European settlement the harbour was the main means of transport and a number of ships foundered on the treacherous sand bar that guards its mouth. I was up at Hokianga this weekend and I am returning there in a few weeks time with my tinny.

Photograph taken by the Northwood Brothers. PERIL OF THE SCOW HAWK. It is a job they take great pride in and do with fantastic skill and extensive training.

Ohiwa The food basket of many hands. TRYING EXPERIENCES OF THE CREW. First sailing from Rawene 730am and last sailing from the Narrows near Kohukohu at 8pm it departs from Rawene on the half hour and the Narrows on the hour.

A man has died after a boat capsized while crossing the notorious Hokianga bar in the Far North.

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