Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor is on the water again after bad weather south of Gisborne forced him ashore on Tuesday.

The help message displayed by the Spot tracker on his website nzkayaker.com was a glitch, says his mum Lyn Taylor.

Tim Taylor.

'On the spot there's three buttons that he presses,” says Lyn.

'We always get an ‘I'm fine'. Yesterday he pressed the second button and there's a different message on that one – I don't know the wording exactly, but it's ‘weather conditions I'm pulling in'.

'The glitch was on the website, it just showed a warning. So we have got that sorted.

We knew he was fine, we contacted him on the sat phone.

'We have got that all sorted out now on his website because concerned people were contacting us – a lot.

'The thing is, he was blissfully unaware that all this was going on.”

Tim encountered 30 knot south westerly winds and couldn't paddle against it, says Lyn.

He landed in Whareongaonga Bay, about halfway between Gisborne and the Mahia peninsula, and camped on the beach.

On Wednesday morning Tim's tracker shows him paddling towards Mahia.

'He seems to be making good progress, but he is only going to do what he can,” says Lyn.

'He doesn't take any risks. We said to him it's not a race, so don't take the risk.”

Today's marine forecast from Metservice is for southwest 20 knot winds rising to 30 knots Wednesday afternoon.

Seas are becoming rough with a southwest swell rising to four metres offshore.

Fair visibility in showers.
The outlook following three days is for the southwest winds rising late Thursday to 35 knots then dying away early Friday, and swinging round to the northeast with a 15 knot northeast wind developing late, tending early Saturday northwest and rising to 25 knots in the north.

Sea very rough for a time from late Thursday. Moderate southwest swell becoming heavy offshore for a time on Thursday.

Tim left Tauranga on November 27, setting out on a non stop circum kayak of New Zealand.