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Posted at 11:13am Friday 28th Jan, 2011
 There’s a family of Tauranga-built game fishing launches that represent a former era, from the days when boats were built of wood, and there were more fish in the sea.
From the mid 50s to 1967, Willie Oliver and Ted Gilpin built boats with a reputation for quality of build, sea keeping and safety.On the marketBrian Worthington at Gulf Group Marine...
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Posted at 11:12am Friday 28th Jan, 2011 | By Lucy Brake
 A special zone planned for the Coromandel will open the door for new finfish farms and help to grow New Zealand’s aquaculture industry.
The proposal seeks a new aquaculture zone of 300 hectares to be located 13.5km west of Coromandel town and 4.5km from Waimate Island in the Hauraki Gulf. The new rules will mean that fish farming applications...
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Posted at 11:11am Friday 28th Jan, 2011
 From just about any vantage point in the Bay you can look out towards the sea and view thousands of people either working in or around boats for pleasure or business.
Worldwide, an estimated 10.5 million people are employed in the maritime industry – and that’s just on container ships and in the world’s major ports.The maritime industry...
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Posted at 11:10am Friday 28th Jan, 2011
 With the recent launch of the Port of Tauranga’s new pilot boat, one of the successes of this project worth noting is the involvement of two small Tauranga companies who supplied key components for the vessels operation – the navigation suite and steering system.
Bay Marine Electronics was selected to supply a full Garmin electronics...
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Posted at 11:10am Friday 28th Jan, 2011 | By Capt. Jennifer Ro Harbour Master , WBOP
 This summer, just like on the roads, it’s been all about safe speed. If everyone proceeded at a safe speed there would be fewer boating collisions and drownings.
I thought you might be interested in a bit of history on boat speed and how ‘knots’ got its name. But let’s start with a reminder of the rule:• The...
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Posted at 2:01pm Friday 17th Dec, 2010
 Changes will be made when the hydroplanes return to Tauranga this summer.“The one thing we are not going to do this year is we are not closing off The Strand reclamation,” says NZ Hydroplanes Association secretary Denise Moughan.
“We are only going to close off the pits, like we did the very first year.“We put the grandstand...
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Posted at 2:00pm Friday 17th Dec, 2010
 Pods of orca have become a regular sight in Tauranga harbour leading up to Christmas as they graze on the resident stingray population.
The pressure on the stingrays was not expected to let up for a couple of weeks at least, says Orca Research Trust head Dr Ingrid Visser. “Rays are a bit like orca chocolate, they absolutely love rays,”...
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Posted at 1:56pm Friday 17th Dec, 2010
 Since leaving Tauranga on November 27, Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor has slept on a few beaches, been forced sit and wait for a gale to subside and was at one stage surrounded by a large pod of dolphins.
Travel plans are for a Christmas in the South Island, with Tim hoping for Christmas in Christchurch.“If I was down by Kaikoura, I would be really...
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Posted at 3:20pm Thursday 28th Oct, 2010 | By Lucy Brake
 If you are lucky enough to encounter a sea turtle when you are out on a boat around the Bay of Plenty and Coromandel, it can be a very special experience. Sadly though, these peaceful and majestic creatures are under threat from human activities.
Having swum the oceans for over 100 million years, the sea turtle has a body that is well adapted to life...
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Posted at 3:20pm Thursday 28th Oct, 2010
 The December 2009 health warning advising against the collection and consumption of shellfish along part of the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty coastline remains in place.
“The most recent weekly monitoring results have continued to show high levels of paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) present in shellfish along this coastline” says Dr Neil...
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