The Royal NZ Air Force P3 Orion that was searching yesterday morning was stood down and RCCNZ deployed a Salt Air helicopter from Paihia to do a shoreline search based on drift modelling along the Karikari Peninsula yesterday.
At edition time yesterday no further sign of Frecklington had been found by searchers.
Frecklington, who is from West Auckland, was staying at a Department of Conservation (DoC) campground in Maitai Bay on the peninsula, and was reported missing last Thursday.
DoC Kaitaia operations manager David Neho said DoC alerted police after there was no sign of Frecklington at his tent for several days.
A Karikari business owner said locals were talking about the man's disappearance but were not speculating about what might have happened.
Sea conditions in the area had been fairly calm, he said.