Tim Taylor is positioning himself for an attempted re-crossing of Cook Strait today before the weather window is lost later.

Tim's more than halfway through his mission to be the first person to kayak around New Zealand in a single voyage.

Tim Taylor.

He left Tauranga on November 27 and crossed the strait heading south on New Year's Eve.

He's since rounded the South Island and Stewart Island during a summer in which he has spent a large proportion of the trip waiting out the weather.

Today, Tim rounded Cape Jackson mid morning and headed south again before his expected crossing of Queen Charlotte Sound to Cape Koamaru on the northern end of Arapawa Island.

His intention is to paddle for Makara Beach says his mum, Lyn Taylor.

'By lunch time we will know if it is a goer or not,” says Lyn.

Tim had coffee in a satellite TV equipped campervan at French Pass and saw himself on regional breakfast television, says Lyn.

The MetService marine forecast for sea area Cook today is for a southerly rising this morning to 20 knots, tending northwest in the evening with moderate sea and a three metre swell easing.

The outlook for Thursday is for a 25 knot southerly, but for the wind to be southwest 35 knots in the east with a very rough sea.

That means it is going to blow right across his course.

The blow is expected to ease Friday to 20 knots before easing Friday night, with a 25 knot northeaster developing Saturday.