UPDATED: 7:15am – Police said the 60-year-old went fishing just after 7am and had been expected back about noon, but had not returned.
He was fishing in his homemade 3m aluminium boat, which has a centre console and an outboard motor. A search and rescue operation began looking for the man this evening.
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His brother spoke to three people at the Sulphur Point boat ramp this afternoon, and police said they remembered seeing a similar boat anchored to a buoy out at sea.
Police said they were very keen to speak to those people.
-RNZ
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