Tim Taylor kayaked up the coast from Preservation Inlet to Dusky Sound today and is expected to continue on to Breaksea Sound tonight, says his mum Lyn Taylor.

Tim's nearly halfway towards accomplishing the goal of being the first person to kayak round the New Zealand coast in a single voyage.

Tim Taylor.

Bad weather has been dogging the southern part of the voyage. Tim spent the last week stuck in Preservation Inlet before catching a workable weather window today.

At 2pm Friday Tim was in Luncheon Cove on Anchor Island in the entrance to Dusky Sound.

His support crew, Tim's mum Lyn Taylor, says he arranged to spend Friday night onboard a boat in Breaksea Sound, accommodation arranged by Bluff Fishermen's Radio operator Meri Leask.

Meri also arranged accommodation for Tim on a fishing boat in Preservation Inlet to provide some relief from the sand flies that were keeping Tim tent bound.

From Luncheon Cove, Tim could return to the open sea round Five Fingers and Resolution Islands – or he could take a longer but more sheltered paddle north up the Acheron Passage behind Resolution Island, which opens out into Breaksea Sound.

'On his scheduled stop, this stop should be Breaksea Sound tonight, and that's on the other side of where he is now,” says Lyn Taylor on Friday.

'He's going well today, he will be happy.”