Mooring close to the beach

[waynemunro]

In January this year I had the good fortune to spend a week in Marahau (South Island, New Zealand) with Buck and our weekenders. I took a fair amount of video and picutes (which I have not got around to processing into a usable form yet), and my favourite picture is shown below (hopefully). The beach at Marahau drys out each low tide to about 15o yards out, so our boats sit on the dry for a few hours each side of low tide. On this evening a goodly sized storm came in and buck had unfortunatly moored his boat in just a bit close to where the transition to steep beach happened, as a consequence it was getting a bit of a beating. This image was taken just before Buck swam to move it further out (he is a brave man).

[Pepe]

Hello Wayne.

Hope you could prosess the video so it could be watched here or somewhere in net.

I remenber your old video - sailing in Marahau with weekenders and it was fun to watch - especially when waiting summer- I couldnt find it anymore.

Best regards

Perttu

[waynemunro]

Hi Perttu,

surprised anyone remembers the old video - it is still around, here are the links:

3-min version: http://www.waynemunro.com/misc/2006_marahau_3min_medium.wmv

18-min version: http://www.waynemunro.com/misc/2006_marahau_18min_med.wmv

I am going to try and get that new video done, just did one for work last night, so now I am in the mood... though really should do the one for my wedding which was a couple of years ago.. maybe I'll consider the sailing one practice for the wedding video.

Wayne

[lewisboats]

Oh...please do! I always like watching that video in the depths of winter...reminds me that it won't last forever. Good tunes too.

Steve

[Fintan Murphy]

Yea, the old video gets my vote as well.  Have it on the desktop and still watch it every so often.

By the way Wayne, are you any relation to Burt Monro?

[waynemunro]

Hi Fintan,

as unlikely as it would seem - he is a distant relation, I think we worked out he was my grandfathers cousin.