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Cheers, would love to see the map you have, The one I have shows that I am out of the airports zone, always learning Oliversharpe3@hotmail.com is the email address, cheers

At the bridge it’s out of the chch airport zone, I believe it’s over 4km away, i wouldn’t know where to start with getting authorisation to fly through the aiport zone, cheers

Yep would’ve been me, was over there for a few days

@Olliesjetboating you pulled to the side to let me pass to do a u turn believe, I nearly pulled up to ask about the rivers around there.

⁠@@handyandy345yup think I remember, in the township, I was swinging back to the shop the grab a pie, should’ve had a yarn, always happy to chat boating and rivers, thing is you might not shut me up😂

Rakaia river, New Zealand

Yup always invited, I do leave her at home sometimes she’s 99% good on the boat, she loves it most of the time

It’s generally pretty good, not many people tend to head up there, due to the shallowness of the river, you can get a gauge on if anyone’s up there, if there’s trailers at the boat ramp

There’s actually a lot of local boaters boating it! We as a group down there are trying to work out a way to notify boaters if anyone’s up there whether it’s a board at the ramp or hang a life jacket or flag system at lagoon end! You can’t gauge it by boat trailers as a lot boat main stream

@@scottmclean7722cheers, I’m a local too, that sounds like a good idea, something to notify people at the boat ramp, better be safe then sorry!

3.8m Rakaia hull, ej25 subaru motor and single stage colorado unit

They can handle a fair amount, pumped plently of shingle through it, it’s not a JetSki pump

Even a jet ski pump can handle heaps, I’ve pumped plenty of stones through mine

Thank you 👌

I live in rakaia just an incredible river from every part to explore,and take in the vast beauty,love the place.​@@Olliesjetboating

Close. It’s in the South Island, New Zealand.

Awesome mate, she’s a mint spot, from top to bottom, the old Rakaia

Cheers for the comments! Good fun, yes vegetation can be a problem in the grill if your in a weedy area

Cheers!

Get into it, she’s bloody stunning down there

Haha don’t worry I get stuck every once in awhile, some days can be bad days and even get stuck multiple times, luckily there was abit of water coming down this time around - minus the river mouth😂

Yup, South Island, New Zealand!

Was perfect, weather conditions were ideal, no wind

About 85L for that size trip, 30L heading upstream from SH1 bridge to gorge bridge

Cheers mate, it’s unreal down there, and this is only a small portion, so many more rivers to explore, let’s just say I prefer not to look underneath the boat anymore… there is a few adventure dents

Cheers mate

Awesome spot in there!! Nice mate

Cheers Richard, we were on the water for 3.5hours, I would say about 2-2.5hours return, we had quite a few stops, lots of little off shoot streams to explore too

@@Olliesjetboating Thanks and is it much further to Wanaka Lake launch point? Or would you recommend launching from where you did?

@@NZRFoster no not much further at all, but you can not boat that stretch between Albert town and lake wanaka year round, only a certain few months, I’d have to look it up, can’t remember off top of my head which months, but Albert town launching is perfect, nice concrete ramp there

@@Olliesjetboating thanks dude

Sorry only just seen this comment, I have done that before and used about 65L, 150km round trip Have also done waimak SH1 to walkers hut return at 90L for near 200km Cheers ollie

Cheers mate, she’s definatly been getting a lot of use, all over the south