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It is possible to tuck in inshore of the permanent moorings for a reasonably quiet overnight stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536133004-MWHSLRUW1PPLLCR8FH9Y/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.01.51.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka Wind rose kindly provided by Alistair McKerchar of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536242731-KT2HZAQCC1V087GCXTEW/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.03.38.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka In the northern part of the lake, looking north along the glacial trough which the lake now occupies. Minaret Bay is at the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536382794-35YSAQYTO6XY4FTOSWYT/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.05.36.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka The beach on the southwestern side of Stevenson’s Island. There is a campsite here, and tracks lead off in various directions. 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It looks benign, but wind gusts continually were sweeping over the low ground to the north (left), and coming into shore under sail was quite tricky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536659733-DWNOWYTOT0DBC4JBAJCE/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.10.45.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536697681-1L8S8CV87DFX4HJPXN9Z/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.11.18.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507536761695-E9XPILMMEM8AZ688YP4T/Screenshot+2017-10-09+21.12.19.png Cruising Guides - Lake Wanaka https://www.noelex25.org/cruising-guides/2017/10/9/cjew8jx2uos1kuvrg4jp0dhsjet42g monthly 0.5 2017-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507534272379-VLHTC5F3O3N61IDW5B4G/Screenshot+2017-10-09+20.29.17.png Cruising Guides - Lake Te Anau The Middle Fjord of Lake Te Anau, with a nice 10 knot breeze carrying a group of five trailer yachts round Rocky Point (on the right) towards North Fjord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507534403574-9YJF76MAU6J0J2554EOO/Screenshot+2017-10-09+20.32.57.png Cruising Guides - Lake Te Anau The wind rose for the summer months at Manapouri airport gives an idea of the proportion of winds from different directions that might be expected on the main body of Lake Te Anau (wind rose kindly provided by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507534465703-Y7QRHVQW1OU9OHCGW2CR/Screenshot+2017-10-09+20.34.08.png Cruising Guides - Lake Te Anau Wind roses taken from 9 a.m. weather observations at West Arm (Manapouri) and Borland Burn (in the Waiau valley south of Manapouri). Note how the winds are affected by the local topography, and the frequency of calms – observations taken in the afternoon would show a different picture. (Data from Climate and weather of Southland (NZ Met. Service Misc. Pub. 115(5), 1984) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507534577951-EIF89JJUGEBCCJU7QWLX/Screenshot+2017-10-09+20.36.01.png Cruising Guides - Lake Te Anau Te Anau Downs. The jetty is used by the large launch that goes up to Glade House, but tie-ing up is fine on the shore- side of the pontoons. Although the jetty and ramp seem to be very exposed to the west, the inlet is generally quite protected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/593cf8bfe58c62c93bc7dd3c/1507534655602-WN55R8FY3XULXKLTZFCL/Screenshot+2017-10-09+20.37.20.png Cruising Guides - Lake Te Anau Gorge Falls. The fall is reached via a good track from a derelict jetty on the delta of Gorge Creek, in the South Fjord. 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Shaun came late to sailing after he and Victoria bought Victoria’s Dad’s boat off the family. A noelex 22 called Hawkwind. He then joined the Bay of Plenty Trailer Yacht Squadron and learn how to race. Sailing and racing Hawkwind for eleven years. During those years he also crewed on Visions a Noelex 25 and went to national competions in Napier and Taupo. After some frustration, Hawkwind went back to the family in Whanganui and Shaun bought a Noelex 25 Endurance for Victoria’s birthday. Since then, he has sailed in the national regattas in Napier, Taupo, Rotoiti and Lyttleton, and consistently races on Rotoiti in club racing, often single handed. He also enjoys entering the Gulf Classic, and doing laps of Lake Taupo. 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