A lousy summer

The good ship Tusk has not had a tough summer this season. The weather has not been very helpful.
What is worse I have been reading other folk's blogs and doing nothing extra on mine.

On Christmas day I learnt that Mick Ellwood passed away. A great diver, family man and one of the best charter skippers on the water, with the Whai. I was a long term client of Mick but could count on him as a friend. This picture shows Mick looking forward to putting the hammer down on Tusk in Mercury Bay.. His funeral was a miserable wet Whitianga day but a celebration of a great life. I am now writing some of my early Whai stories up for the Ellwood family who are putting a collection together and it is fun.