Friends of missing yachtsman Paul Van Rensburg are setting up a fundraising operation to continue the search for him.
Paul is overdue after setting out for Gisborne from Tauranga on March 12. He contacted his Gisborne girlfriend by cell phone that afternoon about six hours after leaving Tauranga – and nothing has been seen or heard since.

Regan Boocock and Warwick Gowland are continuing to look for their friend Paul van Rensburg, despite the official search being called off last week.

An aerial search for Paul, his dog Juanita and his 11m steel sloop Tafadzwa, was called off last Thursday.
The website: www.letsfindpaul.co.nz is expected to go live on Monday afternoon, says friend Regan Boocock.
'We have got a small team here at my place,' says Regan
'We've got his family in South Africa and friends on Facebook from all round the world to try and get the ball rolling.”
They say Paul and Tafadzwa could still be afloat in the search area.
The searching RNZAF Orion could easily have flown over the top of Tafadzwa if the yacht was between two wave crests at the time.
'This search was also not in any way designed to cover the possibility that Paul could have been in his life raft at the time, as this would not at all have been picked up by the radar being used,” says Warwick Gowland.
'The search did not cover the extended area north or north-west, where it is now felt that Tafadzwa could have travelled or drifted given the weather conditions he would have suddenly faced.”
Strong winds and storms struck the East Cape area on the Friday night, and his friends believe he could have struck trouble from that time onwards.
But since then there have been no confirmed sightings, no debris found and Paul's emergency locator beacon has remained silent.
'We strongly believe he is still out there somewhere.”

Click here to read why his friends are certain Paul is still alive.