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Paul G.
07-10-2007, 04:17 AM
Well lads its 88 knots out at channel island at the moment. Sure am glad I'm at home.
JimD
07-10-2007, 04:22 AM
Only a crazy person would go out in that

http://image05.webshots.com/5/6/82/56/68468256ZwfUYd_ph.jpg
Paul G.
07-10-2007, 04:35 AM
Hey Jim,

amazing that guy can stand with his feet so close together. kahunas like coconuts!
JimD
07-10-2007, 05:04 AM
coconut for brains, too :D
P.L.Lenihan
07-10-2007, 05:16 AM
more likely scrambled eggs :-)
John B
07-10-2007, 06:19 AM
Its quite windy.
JimD
07-10-2007, 06:22 AM
I bet there's a bit of a chop.
John B
07-10-2007, 06:27 AM
I'm sure there is a bit.
We have guests staying here tonight. Their home is at Ngungaru, mere metres from Tutukaka, where 160kph or 100 in the old money has been recorded over the last few hours.

we need Stiletto to report in. 265mm of rain!!!
wassat? 10 or 11 inches in 24 hours..........
seanz
07-10-2007, 08:12 AM
Ahem , bit rough?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4123087a10.html

Looks like no injuries though , which is good.
The Bigfella
07-10-2007, 08:48 AM
Wow - hope you guys are all OK over there. I thought we had sucked all the rain out of those clouds, but I see we left a bit for you. Take care guys.
John B
07-10-2007, 04:43 PM
180kph recorded off Whangaparoa and something like 350mm over 27 hours!!
Northland has had her second 100 year storm this year .Fine down my way, a bit of power out and a few trees down etc. I'll try to get to a boat today though.
Jase
07-10-2007, 05:38 PM
well you know how you always wish a tree would fall over and block your drive so you didn't have to go to work...... well it fell over, but the power transformer thingy it hit stopped it falling all the way down... consequently the roof of the car squeaked under it by about 10cm :( so i had to go to work :( rumour has it the beach is littered with broken boats this morning all along the eastern bays and northcote.
Stiletto
07-10-2007, 08:00 PM
An Orion just flew over really low, we dont see them up here much unless there is a search on, I dont think it would be much fun out there in a boat.
seanz
07-10-2007, 08:29 PM
More from NZ Herald.

http://media.apn.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/11boat1.jpg (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10450848)
11:24AM A boat washed up on Waiake Beach near Long Bay. Photo / Paul Estcourt

I really hope that Orion is 'just checking'.
John R - Kitenui
07-10-2007, 09:44 PM
Just come back from the marina and my cover has been shredded. A bimini torn on the next pier and a genoa unfurled into ribbons beside it. At least all the ropes held secure.
John B
07-10-2007, 10:02 PM
Me too.
The piles at pine harbour marina have great swathes of timber shaved off them from the pontoons. They look like someone has planed a 4 or 6 in wide flat onto the near side of em.
Some ,.. some are leaning over 5 or 7 degrees:eek: :rolleyes:
Lew Barrett
07-10-2007, 11:41 PM
Here's to you all getting through unscathed.
Zane Lewis
07-11-2007, 06:01 AM
We have a good 6 or more washed up in my bay. Took some video the other evening of it. Heard that TV3 news showed a couple of them this evening.
I would say 2 are badly damaged. 1 went through a pier before it got to the rock wall. A large alloy hull is very high and dry but mostly pannel damage, a further 3 are draged moorings into softish stuff so should be recoverable. Lots of salt water washing over the road. And we are on the lee side of the Whangarei Heads peninsular. Must have been amasing seas on the coast.
Dad tells me he was very pleased Mischief was off her mooring and in Whitianga Marinia, Lots of very large breaking seas over there.
Zane