A second search plane has joined a Royal New Zealand Airforce P3 Orion in the search for a yachtie missing off the East Coast.
They are looking for the Tafadzwa, with owner Paul Van Rensburg and dog Juanita onboard.
Paul set out from Tauranga to Gisborne on Friday morning and was reported overdue on Monday.

The Tafadzwa.

The second search plane is a twin-engined PA31 that searched all day on Tuesday but found no sign of Tafadzwa.
The P3 Orion had now been tasked to search as far as 200 miles offshore from the East Cape, while the PA31 was concentrating on covering the area north east of the Bay of Plenty, out to about 40 miles offshore, says Rescue Coordination Centre NZ mission coordinator Keith Allen.
The RNZAF P3 Orion began covering an extended search area at first light on Wednesday with the PA31 resuming searching at about 11am.
By midday the two aircraft eliminated 27,500 square miles from the search area.
'We've got two excellent search assets out there and they are systematically working through the search plans that we've developed for them,” says Keith.
'By the end of the day we expect the two aircraft to have covered around 44,000 square miles (153,000 square kilometres).
'At RCCNZ, we are continuing to work on our search planning to ensure we consider every potential scenario.”
A southerly front had come into the search area but conditions were still sufficient for searching, says Keith.
Tafadzwa is an 11m steel hulled sloop with a red and white coloured main sail and a brown staysail.