Tim Taylor is in Dusky Sound today and likely to remain there with 35 knot north-easterly winds forecast for today and again tomorrow.

He tried to stick his nose out past Five Fingers Point on Sunday morning, but was blown back. The strong winds from the northerly quarter also whistled down the Acheron passage, preventing an attempt on the alternative route up the coast to Breaksea Sound.

Tim Taylor.

'It doesn't look like he's moving today,” says his mum and support person, Lyn Taylor.

'He went for a bit of a paddle round up to the right of Anchor Island thinking he could get to Dusky Sound through that gap, but he said it was still so windy.

'He said he just couldn't get through, so he's actually been on a barge all weekend.”

The barge is used by fishermen to anchor their boats and to transfer catches. There's a helipad and a cabin, but no sleeping, though Lyn says Tim has slept on the couch.

'The night before last (Saturday) he was on a yacht,” says Lyn.

'There were several fishing boats in and a yacht called up so they invited him on the yacht for the night.

'He's in good spirits, talking to people. If he was on his own it would be a different story.

'On one of the fishing boats they have got Sky TV, so he's been having all the comforts of home.

'It's very slow going for him, but he's safe and well so that's the main thing.”

Tim's approaching the halfway point in his more than 5500km kayaking mission to be the first person to kayak round the country in a single voyage.

He departed Tauranga on November 27 expecting then to be finished in five or six months.

The weather, particularly around the bottom of the South Island, has slowed him up a bit, forcing quite a bit of time out.

In the three months since Tim set out from Tauranga, he's now spent nearly six weeks ashore. While he's scheduled rest days, most of that time has been waiting for weather to improve.