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    Posted: 09 Jun 2011 at 5:22pm
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Im heading down to Carterton for xmas (hailing from Taupo) to the mother-in-laws, and would like to take my boat to keep my sanity.

Anyone out there know of any good places to launch a 4.5m boat using a car/ or 4wd? 
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Originally posted by sassmo sassmo wrote:

Im heading down to Carterton for xmas (hailing from Taupo) to the mother-in-laws, and would like to take my boat to keep my sanity.

Anyone out there know of any good places to launch a 4.5m boat using a car/ or 4wd? 
 
If you mean an all weather launch then the short answer is no except maybe
Lake Ferry where you might be lucky to score a ky or an eel even the remote
chance of a sea run brown trout.
 
Otherwise your options are Castlepoint about 1 hr. east of Masterton but will pm
you some pics of the conditions you might have to contend with or Ngawi which
is a fair haul but well worth it if conditions are right ... however will be relying on the
rather fickle Cook Straight weather ... having said that had a great time there in March
in a 10 ft. tinny.
 
Out from Martinborough there are places such a White Rock, Glendhu etc. but have
to be prepared to take your life in your hands. 
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Their is a couple of places depending on what you want to do? Castle point is easy enough to launch with a 4wd if you want to go sea fishing or if you just wanna play around biskiting skiing ect the best place would probably be the diversion just west of martinbrougher you can easily launch their with a car or 4wd as it has a concrete ramp.
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Inland from Martinborough is a place called Sandy point  (I think) - on White Rock/Tora  road but turn left when get to seafront .  Spot is near the "Beachhouses" .....follow locals out and if they are not launching use the surfcaster. A 4WD may also be necessary. There will often be a tent or 2 there on the little point.

Launched my 4.8 pontoon out there a few times and it is a relatively protected area with a few knarly boulders at the dogsleg entrance.

There is a good reason the locals tend to have 4.0 to 4.4 metre pontoon boats that are built like brick outhouses.
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Castlepoint bay is good, right at the lighthouse end as it is sheltered from the swell, We launch using a car and some rope to pull up onto hard depending on tide. You can catch ky and gurnad in the bay if a southerlys running and blue cod are usually easy to catch around 1km off the lighthouse in 40m.
 
If the sea is good you can launch through the gap like the commercial boys but it would probably pay to check the tides as there is very little water at low. Watching the big boats coming in at full noise at low tide  is pretty spectacular.
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thanks for the info guys.

yeah was in The Navy so I know how bad that coast can be...but the good man up top will know im at the mother-in-laws and give me a week of calm seas :)
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Sassmo .... seeing as how you hale from Taupo are you into freshwater
fishing at all ?
 
If so or want to get started there are some great rivers to fish around
the Carterton area. Combined with landbased sw fishing at somewhere like
Toro or Whiterock could be a better option than taking your boat but
whatever you decide it HAS to be preferable to spending a week or more
in the company of a MIL. 
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Rumahunga river is ware I grew up fishing get all sorts in there brown trout kawhai mullet perch got my first trout from the dam there wicked place but cray sea iv done plenty of surfcasting at the mouth of lake ferry but not got a lot to be honest I do remember a article inthe fishing news about the guy in carterton surfcasting got a 30kg big eye tuna
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Butterfly tuna  as opposed to a big eye and est 50-60 kilo. A few Quinnat salmon caught along the Ferry beach in summer as well.
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Castlepoint is really the only place you can launch safely, even then a 4WD is needed. All the other forementioned locations you need a tractor or bulldozer.  Sea conditions are always dodgy so keep an eye on the forecast.
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Hi Chris  - suggest you check out the white rock/tora spot, most boats were launced with modest 4wd's or utes.  Admitedly they were seldom over 4.5 metres, and conditions needed to be good (a given for that coast).

Be good to hear from a few local Wairarapa members with more recent experience as I am going back 6 yrs now.


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Originally posted by red89mx red89mx wrote:

Hi Chris  - suggest you check out the white rock/tora spot, most boats were launced with modest 4wd's or utes.  Admitedly they were seldom over 4.5 metres, and conditions needed to be good (a given for that coast).

Be good to hear from a few local Wairarapa members with more recent experience as I am going back 6 yrs now.


 I currently live in Masterton do most of my boating out from Castle Point because the boat lives out their,lots of smaller boats of your size launch from their only thing that you do need to be aware of is if launching in the lagoon their is a small channel that needs to be followed at low tied so you dont get beached, if you give me a PM closer to the time an are wanting to fish out of Castle I will be happy to show you the channel  or you can just come for a fish on my boat, we are generally out fishing over that period providing the weathers reasonable. Have been out a few times from tora in a friends boat, the best thing to do if you want to fish from down their would be to ask a local if you can follow them out as their is a few rocks you need to watch out for. 
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Akitio is another good spot they are always lauching from the beach , can hire a tractor for about 10 bucks, head towards herbitville get alot of bluecod over that way aswell
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