Marlborough Sounds in an RIB

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    Posted: 19 Mar 2019 at 1:03pm
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Heading down to the Marlborough Sounds in a months time and was planning on using a small 2.5m RIB with an 8hp to cruise around Pelorus and Kenepuru sounds and get me to some otherwise inaccessible campsites.

Are the waters sheltered enough to spend a few days out in the sounds?

Does anyone have experience camping or fishing around the sounds?

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Have heard a lot about people kayaking around the sounds so I'm guessing it'd be pretty safe for a small inflatable.

Anyone have any tips for getting a couple blue cod or gurnard?
Also considering chucking the wettie on if anyone can point me towards a good spot for spearing.
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Kenepuru you should be ok, but Pelorus .. um
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Does the swell roll through there?

I was planning on using the campgrounds on the southern end of the sound. Figure its a bit more sheltered for a small boat.
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Open ocean swell doesnt in either sound but it can get a bit rough from strong nor west esp in the Pelorus.
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Cheers mate will be watching out for that!
Seems like the go to for a feed is blue cod down your ways, do they hang around the mussel farms like snapper?
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You will have to go on rocky ground for blue cod. No or very few blue cod in Kenepuru, maybe a few snapper around the mussel farms though.
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Hi,
You need to join the Facebook group call ‘fishing Marlborough’. Im a member of it. There is a heap of info on land based around the sounds. I fish the sounds half a dozen times a year. Often the wind in the sounds funnels down the valleys. You can see the clouds going one way by the wind is blowing the other. This is far more evident in pelourus and kenaperu than queen charolette.

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Have you already bought the 2.5m, if not seriously 10-11ft makes a huge difference and will plane easier with the 8hp and much dryer in a swell.

If its a true RIB and not a sib you wont have this problem, but often with SIBS when they hit say a 1m swell with wind blowing the top off, the bottom inflation which gives its ability to go plane etc deflates easily, the valve pops if going hard out.

If you stick to the nearer inshore areas you should be fine. I use to take my 2.8m Zodiac out passed Tiri to the 40m all the time, but you have to have faith in your hull.

Which hull is it?
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Its an Aquapro SMR 260, with an ally hull so its a true RIB.
As long as I can get out to some of the more remote campsites and also be able to get to some spots where I can do a bit of fishing and diving I'll be stoked.

Not much room in the boat for all the gear though LOL
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