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Thanks. I have a very vague recollection of seeing a tug going out to sea when sailing a sabot midweek about 1970. Sadly I could find no photos of the turbines coming in through the channel.

It’s a Drascombe Lugger - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe_Lugger

Yes. The 2 hour delay getting away mean’t the breeze was up towards the 20 knot level by the time I got to Pulbah. If we got away on time it would have been a pleasant sail almost all the way, and we could have spent the afternoon watching cartwheeling 16 foot skiffs. Actually we did watch 2 cartwheeling 16 footers, including one that seemed to get blown all the way to Rathmines and I suspect the crew with the car towing the trailer went back to Belmont in a Uber to collect the trailer. We didn’t see them sail back. They were caught out with their no.2 rig when they should have had the no. 4 rig up. The X1 is fantastic. Limited in some ways but much easier to deploy and use than a “real” drone (which I also have and which did the boat harbour aerial shot with my first proper launch, film, retrieve all from the boat. And the X1 kept some raiders amused.

Thanks. A forgotten bit of history.

Thank you. The boat is named after my late wife. There was no Pamela A.

@@anders_nygaard The parrel is a generic name for a line that holds spars to a mast. So in my case the line starts at the top of the mast goes down through a pulley on the yard near the attachment point of the halyard, then around the mast and back to another pulley at the same attachment point, and then down the mast into the vent box. It holds the yard up against the mast so it resists the pull back from the sheet and vang and get more tension in the leech and luff.

@@Cruising_Pamela_B yes, I can see it in action at 5:20. Thanks!

@@anders_nygaardIt works quite well. The trick was working out how to get it to work at different heights without having to adjust it much, or end up with a lot of rope in the bottom of the boat when reefed down a lot. The trick is the start of the line at the top of the mast. It means that apart from loosening it off to reduce friction it self adjusts as the yard goes up or down.

@@Johnhyndman-h2i It’s all done optically from the main camera, while hight is regulated visually from two downward facing cameras. It basically locks onto your face/head and follows it. I get more use out of it than a drone as it flies itself, it can be deployed in seconds and it fits in your pocket. But it has limitations including it can’t fly over water as it can’t measure height from reflective moving surfaces. So my DJI mini pro 4 still has its uses and was used for the boat harbour shot at the beginning.

@@anthonywoollcombe9767 ROFL - I went through and added a second to each of them. I’ll make to two next time.

@@deemacvee1 I didn’t notice any, but I wasn’t really looking. There may be some further up the creek. There is not a lot of wharf space either. What there is seems to be taken up by locals and boat hire. I got the last spot on the public wharf.

Thank you. I will sent the Spencer store a message. Downsizing next year. Hope to join you on a raid one day.

Thank you. There are thousands of stories that could be told about the river. You can only tell a few in a short sailing video!

Hi Paul. Funnily enough - there is no collision detection, but I only hit the trees maybe 3 times. The Bar Island footage was shot with a Hoverair X1 flying camera. It is fully autonomous and has no controller and flies preset moves that centre around recognition of the human in the middle of them. If there is a tree or anything else in the way of the move it just hits the them. But the props are in a cage so no damage done. You can adjust parameters like height, radius and distance from a phone app before launching. It launches from your hand and when the task is done it returns and lands on your outstretched hand. The modes used were follow mode, dolly track (follow mode from the front), hover and birdseye (with a slow corkscrew). I love it. It so easy to use and fast to deploy compared to a drone. It also records synchronised sound though the phone app and digitally removes the whine of the propellers. Just can’t be used over water. It needs a textured ground surface to sense its movement and positioning. When it encounters water it just starts landing. I’ve got a DJI Mini 4 Pro for the water stuff. I’ve fitted a home made carbon fibre catching handle made from a cable tie and carbon fibre arrow shaft and successfully launched and retrieved from the boat. Landing was very difficult until on my 4th attempt I worked out the problem was the anti collision sensors making it jump away on approach as it sensed the mast. It was easy peasy once I turned the sensors off. Now I just have to practice flying and filming with it.

@@Cruising_Pamela_B Hi yes I seen the X1 but didn't know you had one,I thought it was the DJI mini...the noise cancelling is very effective.

Heights Railway Bridge 11.4m Road Bridges 11.1m Depths Railway Bridge 10-12m Road Bridges 18-19m Cascade Bay 0.5m (but about 6m about 50m off shore) Bar Island 1-2m Big Jimmy’s Point 10-13m Marlow 13-15m Spencer 10-11m (1.5m at the public jetty)

@@Cruising_Pamela_B Thankyou, Plenty of mast clearence as my mast height from water line is 10.1 mtr. A deep waterway. Plenty of chain and rode required.

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you. It’s hard to believe that just over the hill line to the south is the urban sprawl of Sydney.

@@Cruising_Pamela_B Yes it is amazing .

Thanks Anthony. I’ve been trying to get out since March, but the weather has been atrocious every weekend. Hopefully not as long between drinks for the next one

Thanks Alex. I’ve been trying to get out since March, but the weather has been atrocious every weekend. Hopefully not as long between drinks for the next one

No. I was lucky enough to find one of only four in Australia for sale.

It’s a bit of an illusion really. I have an inclinometer inside and it never goes beyond 30 - 35 degrees. The distance from deck to keel is bigger than the beam at any point along the hull. It’s a bit “plank on edge”. So it heels quickly in any wind to 30 degrees. That puts the gunwhale about 6 inches above the waterline. But it never goes any further. I recently experimented with an extra 70kg in water ballast but it made no difference to stiffness but man it slowed the boat down. It’s never given me a moment’s worry even in strong winds. The most it’s gone over is in a massive gust where the water was running halfway up the cabin window for maybe 5 seconds. By that stage you are sailing inside with the hatch shut so even in a complete knockdown no water can come in. That’s the beauty of the boat - when everyone else is drenched wearing heavy wet weather gear I’m dry as a bone wearing a t shirt.

There is about 9 inches more hoist on the yard possible, so next year I might get another sail taking the yard up that amount and leave the luff the same length. This will send the peak of the sail up a considerable amount and it will be both bigger and the yard more vertical. That’s probably as far as I can take it without a taller mast.

Yes - it’s the lowest. Made it with a few inches to spare. But Hexham was pretty low too, but it might be an illusion how close it looked.

Thanks Phillip. It was a long day. I considered going back at the halfway mark, but ended up going on because the bar at Newcastle was always going to be safer than the bar at Swansea.

@@Cruising_Pamela_B Never been over the bar at Newcastle but the bar at Swansea in a strong N/E could be a bit hairy. I hope to meet you when I join in with the Sydney Raid group after I build a Goat Island Skiff. I chose it for its simplicity. I don't want to spend another 5 yrs building a boat. If you search Mad Hatter Sailing you can see my last build and current boat. It goes on a trailer but not really a raid boat.

A camping multi cell air mattress and sleeping bag. The end tapers so it fits into the narrower floor at the front of the boat and it’s just over 6 feet between the bulkheads. Takes about 30 seconds to inflate. The biggest problem occurs when I forget to bring the dogs mattress and we fight over who gets the airbed.

They are all Powertech panels from Jaycar electronics. The two flexible panels are 50w each and the small rigid panel on the rear deck is 10w.

@@Cruising_Pamela_B many thanks for the prompt reply.

Then another tenuous link exists. My late wife’s family has a tradition of the first male child having Collingwood as a middle name and it dates back to that link I think. The eldest male in the family have been in the RN for hundreds of year. My father in law migrated and transferred to the RAN. My stepson who has the name also joined the RAN. My wife and her sister (no males that generation) were both christened on the Victory.

It’s international code flag “R” - “R” for “raid”.