Back To New Zealand Against The Prevailing Wind (Rekohu Chatham Island part 4)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- It looked like I might get a nice easy downwind sail back to mainland NZ... I just had to wait for a gale or two to pass... but once they had, the weather did not look so good. Now it was gonna be many small systems, each changing from NW to SW, and usually 25 knots, or becalmed! But summer was over and I still had a lot of sailing to do... and I wasn't sure if something better would come.
So I just went anyway.
This is a cool channel. Raw footage of a dude and his tattered, ramshackle boat battling the high seas, going to remote places, livin the dream. Cool stuff, man. Cheers from a guy fixing up an old derelict on the other side of the world!
haha, thanks! I take that as a complement. hey your channel looks interesting too will check it out once I get chance!
you might also like to have a look at my old videos and see the condition of the boat when I aquired it!
@@dominictarrsailing Will do, man. Thanks for checking out my stuff as well.
This why I love thus Channel... no sugar coated sailing here
I saw it when you first got it and had to dig it out of the weeds and dirt. That boat has come a long way since then. It was a lot of scarfing and epoxy work. I remember being really impressed and envious, being in Thailand without a boat and missing my old one. I wanted to build a Wharram there and sail it out of Thailand and spend the next few years meandering around the S.Pacific, but COVID, money and corrupt government officials got in my way. So, it's good to see that you're still living the dream. Good on you Dominic!
🎉 Congratulations, we loved watching your adventure. And your honesty is inspiring and uplifting.
Thank you! Its wonderful to recieve comments like this!
Thank you! Its wonderful to recieve comments like this!
Did a wonderful job on that homemade sail and to last an entire year , very impressive ! Great adventure !
Man I laughed out loud when you went up to check the wind on the hill. What an adventure. Thanks for sharing and good shit on the extra editing
@@ecclesheat cool I will move around there when the wind goes northerly in a few days!
Sick trip bro.
Thank you for sharing. A lot of invaluable and inspiring lessons here, and not just about sailing. We should all earn our next orange.
A different wind will come.
And that will blow me some other place.
If we had one and half days of good wind we could definitely make it to somewhere.
It's like the lull is like nothing.
That was fun, Dom.
Thanks. gary in japan
@@garymalm the lull was wonderful! A much needed break and chance to dry some stuff. Moral was greatly improved! And being becalmed on a catamaran is not unpleasant. Not like a monohull whipping side to side
Like other's have said your a resourceful individual living a life on your terms. Really refreshing and inspiring watching,keep up the adventures.
Sailed out to the Chathams when i was Kid on my folks boat in the early 90's from Napier It looks like it hadn't changed much. The chatham rise was very uncomfortable coming back to Christchurch. Good video series. I like how you make do with what you've got.
thank you! I recognize your name! I loved the video of your trip to antarctica! one of the best sailing videos I have seen!
@dominictarrsailing Thanks. My brother did a decent job of the video. Glad you enjoyed it. It was a good trip.
Your trip to the chathams bought back a lot of memories. We spent a few weeks in port hut, and even got out to SE island to see the Black Robins. But it sure is a desolate place.
Looking forward to your future videos, keep up the good work.
@@bentucker5009 wow amazing. I would have loved to make it around to pitt island etc, but after i fixed the rudder i just didnt get any steady weather. I want to be able to say ive sailed to every inhabited island in nz, so i guess ill just have to go back one day!
Im also very interested in his proa project!
Raw and brilliant footage from a great effort or resilience. 👏
Congratulations Dude! Great to hear a Tao Te Ching quote in there...
What a run! That last night's blow made me feel unusually exhausted! Climbing out of the rack to deal with weather can be terrifying.
I have had a lot of people tell me "THAT was unlucky" (about whatever dumb thing I'm doing) but knowing how badly things can go wrong I have to correct them and explain exactly how lucky I really am ;-) The fact you found all the pawls and springs and fasteners and races and all the bibbledy-bobs from your mast winch is a good example of luck. You found all the pieces! You win!
I loved the shoutout 😀 Great video, Dominic!
Looked challenging with all the wind direction changes. Another crossing success! The tarp sail provides!
The tarp is starting to stretch for sure but i've been using it pretty hard. Probably equivalent to several years worth of weekend sailing. And up north it stays hanked on for weeks at a time -- but bagged in a bag that wraps around the stay, to protect from UV.
Amazing trip, well done. A long way from land in stormy seas. Not sure if you were pushing what is sensible on an old boat, but if you were confident, I am with you.
my most important rule is to build up slowly. don't just jump in the deep end. the next trip shouldn't be more than double the previous biggest trip. I had some experience sailing hard last winter, up in the north, close reach for 12 hours+ in 25 knots. So that gave me confidence the boat could take it. And I think sailing in NZ's far north during the winter is good prep for around 40S in the summer!
Great series Dominic
Thanks dan!
Your videos just keep getting better and better. What a passage to remember. I reckon you have a few hours behind a sewing machine in your future.
Yes i did! Everything is fixed now
This is a fantastic series of videos, thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next one. Any chance of making it to the Auckland Islands?
I would love to go there but not sure if this is the right boat for it (although swirly world went!)
The weather is very miserable down there. A gale every 3rd day! Something like that! I would go to stewart island first, anyway.
What a legend! Good on ya!
Very well done. A very rare sailing RUclips video indeed, with so many out there claiming easy sailing with all the expensive gear, is difficult and a huge challenge, you show how a real sailor handles a real boat, on a REAL difficult passage.
Though...
Perhaps Rapa Iti would have taken not much longer to get to from the Chathams. 😉
But the sailing would have been less of a challenge. 🤭
had to check that, rapa iti is 1800 miles from chatham, that's gonna take at least 2 weeks, but would be a nice trip I am sure!
I think the medium of videos is a problem here, because it's hard to really capture the drama of sailing. when the going gets tough you are not gonna reach for a camera! But it can be described in writing afterwards. That stuff is captured much better in books from the 70s and before.
An interesting example is Alan Villier's By Way of Cape Horn. Their idea was to make a film. The book is terrifying, the film footage that they managed to take is pretty much only the nice bits and makes it look like the trip was a nice holiday!
@@dominictarrsailing Yeah you are right about the footage bit particularly sailing solo. It would make it a lot more work to edit If you had multiple motion sensor IR activated cameras,.... Though that's a pretty cheap security system these days.
Don't reckon you could do 300mile days surfing southern ocean mountain trains in the roaring forties, or furious fifties before dipping up to Rapa Iti at 29sth? It is the standard Catamaran trading Waka route.
Wakas blessed at the TapuTapuMaraeAtea at Mahia, then head south to pass or call in at the Chathams, then whoosh! Across the southern Ocean, till the next safe port is sighted.... Which is marked by Nukutere point at the Keyhole entrance to Rapa Iti.
Nukutere is one of the main Ngati Porou founding Wakas, and made the circuit many times for several centuries.
From Rapa Iti it's not too far to Ra'atea, where the TapuTapuMaraeAtea is a very ancient stone Megalithic site that was the blessing and checkout site for the tropical trades route of the Circuit Voyage.
@@dominictarrsailing I just uploaded some shorts of the madness I've been up to in the last five years.
Have you seen the paintings and design drawings of the Tahitian Waka's from the first French ships to visit Ra'atea?
Inspired me to build the $500 solar amphibious Bamboo mobile home and drive it from Rotorua to to Lake Ohakuri, and 30km down the lake. 🤭
That was just after the first COVID lockdown. Wanderlust and Tawai were bought right at the beginning of the second lockdown. And I haven't slept a night ashore since. 😉🐉🌊
@@Maungateitei hmm 12knot average speed. This boat can hit that if pressed very hard... holding high speed all day, surfing, would certainly require a more powerful steering system and probably active steering. Or a crew.
I have looked at security cameras a little, they are not great quality compared to cameras intended for filming. An option that i am expolring is filming in loop mode, record continiously, when you press stop (after something exciting happens) it saves the last 30 min or what have you. Would require remote control and waterproof power supply etc...
@@dominictarrsailing yeah. Guess you're right. Pilgrim made up to 16knots on her maiden Atlantic Crossing, when they opened the tap on the final day in the med. She's a 38ft Wharram.
Personally I think it's crazy to singlehandedly cross oceans. Trusting Autopilots in heavy weather is no substitute for having someone on watch and helming at all times, and sleep deprivation is asking for trouble.
Guess Tawai could do Chatham's to Rapa iti in a week. When she's ready.
With her bulbous bows and laminar flow perfect thin ship hull design she is absurdly easily driven in light airs, and should be capable of over 15knots in a decent broad reach.
Though.... 12 knots in the southern ocean would not necessarily be excessive speed for your Pahi. You'd probably experience at least three or four knots of surface water speed, and the wave trains of hundred plus foot swells several kilometers apart are romping at over 100kmph.
The biggest I've seen at Ahipara growing up were breaking from 30km out, period over 1 minute, and over 100m high breaking rollers at the horizon on the 200-300m deep Ahipara banks.
Those would have been traveling at near 300kmph out in deep water. That was an Awe inspiring experience.
Regarding not having time to film in tricky situations. 🤔 Am I the only one suspicious that "sailor James on Tritea, had so much time to film his "tiller failure" in heavy conditions entering queen Charlotte sound, and his wonderful autohelm saving his boat and life. 🤭.
Didn't notice any closups of the failure. 🤔
Wonder if he might have been bagging some sponsorship bucks for staging it. 😉🤭
That trap needs a pay rise! Good on ya mate.
I like your orange theory of distance. I am thinking of implementing that approach on my boat. One question though..what do you do if you drift backwards the day you eat your orange? Stephen
I drew lines on the chart that I had to cross to get an orange, so if you drift back one day it means you'll need to sail a bit further to get the next orange
Wish you had a sheltered cockpit and a front helm on that Warram, that would make passage way easier.
I have been thinking about a pop up dodger creating a tent over the forward cockpit. I would need to change the boom to make that work though.
What do you mean by a front helm? the self steering helmed the boat but I do need to trim the sails
👍!!!
At 10:14 is that the hat I made you?! What a wild trip
Yes! That hat came on the 2020 trip also so has now circumnavigated the north island twice and also visited chatham island!
I was actually Anchored up near you in Paihia b4 you went Chathams ...
Your dinghy is what triggered my memory, where did u leave it? Or did u loose it towing?
You mean the red outrigger? It dissembles on deck under a silver tarp. Its just under the tillers
What boat are you in?
@@dominictarrsailing 52' John Pugh ketch
@@dominictarrsailing oh wow thts super cool dinghy
@@BTCxyz369 I looked that up, was that a dark blue steel one?
This is real budget sailing ⛵
I make something similar on the stove but its called placki ziemniaczane or potato pancakes.
Interesting what is in it?
@@dominictarrsailing Potatoes, onion, 1 egg, flour. The potatoes and onion are grated finer than an English style hashbrown. Fry 5min per side in sunflower oil.
How do you use the two hulls?
Is one for living, one for storage.
I live in the port (galley) and the starboard is the "guesthouse" most likely I usually don't even access it in a trip
Cool Stuff mate, lots went on in this vid, the winds sent ya all over, u shredded a couple sails, almost lost ya'winch... Yet u keep ya cool, it seems u just don't give a shit... licking your oily, fishy fingers, while the world watches... U surly don't give a shit!!
Great Trip! Keep Gybing Brah, Balkan Shipyards
the flying fish was surprisingly good! highly recommended!
11:47 ... It must be time to oil ya deck mate :)
haha dry deck is a sign that something left on deck (such as clothing) will also become dry
Hey Dominic where are you now? If your still in Wellington my öl man would have some fibreglass work for you. He's on his boat on the hard at Evans Bay. Has his center board out. He can't find anyone to fix it. He would pay cash and I'm sure you would be able to conjure up a way of sorting it. His names Harry He knows I'm asking you. She's the big boat up on the slip way there. Cheers
Oh sorry i am in able tasman now!
I would definitely help if i was around whats the problem? Is it the case that is damaged or the board?
@@dominictarrsailing ah all good. Going for the sunshine ;) . So the its a centerboard. Polyester with some sort of filling like resin and sand. Hanging on a 40mm stainless pin. Basically need to rebuild the board pin interface. Probably cutting open the board and glassing something in there. I'd fo it myself but I'm in Europe. Had a boat builder start chipping away at it. Then he said the glass is contaminated from the bilge water and the only option is to build a new board. Considering I've built a diesel tank from poly before.... Anyway there's one other boat builder in town and it could be weeks before he gets to it. I guess your heading north for the winter now? Enjoy
@@ecclesheat yeah, will be heading north again soon. I was here 20 months ago so have now circumnavigated the north island!
Bilge water contaminated the polyester??? First ive ever heard something like that. Though i havnt seen it. If the hole is worn a bit id consider just drilling it out larger and fitting a plastic bearer in the hole. Ir grease the pin so it doesnt stick and pour thickened epoxy around it. Hmm it must be pretty heavy if it has a 40mm pin, does it have lead in it too?
I guess the only thing good I can say is thank goodness you never took anyone to sea with you.