[password] 23Twelve
[position] 40 12.600S 173 20.806E
[weather] 10knts ENE, smoothe seas, 0.5m swell NW, 90% cloud, 1015 baro
[speed] 4-5knts
[heading] 160T
[status] On passage, Opua to Mana marina, Plimmerton. Forecast for Stephens improved: still gale warning but saying 35 knots. Making best course as wind veers, will tack further inshore when it starts to build. NE=E2=80=99ly did not hold long enough to make it inshore off Wanganui as hoped. Kupe gas platform hailed us at 03:45 to tell us we were in =E2=80=98exclusion zone=E2=80=99 of 5km; AS WE WERE SAILING AWAY from CPA of 1200m! Actually a reporting zone; exclusion is 500m per charts, but they require reporting if approaching within 5000m. Live and learn... Discovered Marg=E2=80=99s download of Mana tides quotes =E2=80=98GFT=E2=80=99 as time zone: now what is that??[END]