Motoring Up a Very Tight River to Quayside Boatyard in New Zealand; New Bottom Paint For Triteia
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Episode 347 : Season 10 : New Zealand - Aotearoa
Hello Friends,
On this episode I make the decision to head North instead of South and sail down the Westcoast of New Zealand for the South Island. Once my mind is made up, I make way across a now dead calm sea to Bon Accord Anchorage on Kawau Island.
I got a tip about a boatyard up the Mahurangi River that could haul me out so I could repaint Triteia's bottom with new Antifouling, so we headed up the tightest river we have ever driven up.
I had a really amazing experience at www.quaysideboatyard.com and highly advise anyone looking to get the bottom done to head to this amazing small family run boatyard.
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This Boatyard is in the Town of Warkworth. New-Zealand has a long history of Boatbuilding, it is beautiful to see these, Boatyards, uncomplicated and down to earth.
Until mr health and safety comes along with his over the top new regulations followed by mr regional council who wants hose down debris contained etc etc and next minute all too hard and unaffordable and a close down follows……very sad
@@mikebrinsley9302 Sad? That would be whining about moves to protect the marine environment which draws sailors here in the first place.
@@mikebrinsley9302 You have a toilet in your home? or do you just scrape that into a corner as well?
@@mikebrinsley9302iv seen people water blasting boats and rivers turning colour of their anti foul so I think I'm so worried about some regulations
They'd be more concerned about a chain being used to tow boats on the cradle. Chains are for lifting not towing.@mikebrinsley9302
I forgot how beautiful the bird song is in New Zealand
Tritreia Looks Beautiful Again .
❤ when I was a child we would get our fuel near that boatyard and then carry on to the bay of islands, most wonderful memories. 😊👍🌏
Hi James, great to meet you while you were here, nice to see our Mardi Gras next to you. It took another week or so for us to get back in the water but it has been a great summer sailing around the Hauraki Gulf. You are so right about the crew at Quayside Boatyard, Martin, Ari and Aaron run a fantastic yard, such an amazing spot to be and work on your boat.
Enjoy your travels ! See you next time ! John and Alison
I thought you were just going to give her a scrub, but she got overhulled! A whole new look. That entire area you were in is just beautifully calm w/ its lack of civilization.Gorgeous.Thank you. - No Ive never seen boats in mud in Fla. or on the East coast. Its unusual.
My Dad, Mum and I took our 33’ launch up the Mahurangi to Warkworth quay a couple of times in the 70s to the town quay in sight of the waterfall. If you want narrow and a similar trip, but with possibly stronger tidal. flow, you could try The Weiti up to Silverdale a bit further south. Back in the day these rivers both had cement works and other commodities transported out by scows which were sailed up. Flat bottomed and often over 60 foot long. The Puhoi river is another. My grandfather used to deliver the mail up there by boat in the 1920s. All these rivers are very tidal, but were navigable and essential travel routes for Pakeha and Māori settlements before reading infrastructure developed. Sadly, that’s a world that is long past but it was a cherished childhood.
50 years ago my friends and I used to camp in the old cement works ruins after spending the days out on the coast surfing, the lake was a great place to cool off, happy memories
Yes, it was somewhere to hang out when we were young too. Always deserted, so good to so the old wharf being put to good use.
Beautiful Boatyard. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
So much birdlife sounds!
I admit that I don’t get to watch all of your videos, I usually come back and binge for a while, but I do miss some. I love seeing how far you’ve come each time I come back, and that is not just how far physical distance you’ve come, but you and your life as well! The first video I saw of yours (and it was in “real time”, or as close to it…within a week of upload tops), was you getting that first engine installed. And you and your brother trying to clean the bottom of the boat while in the water using snorkels (your brother ended up doing with scuba gear).
Those didn’t appear to be as “happy” of times for you, especially later when you’re all set to go and discover you’re going alone instead of with your partner. Probably the best thing for you, you’ve just done SO much since then and come across as one of the calmest most at peace sailors out there. You’re an inspiration for sure, congrats man!! Congrats on ALL your accomplishments!!
Cheers from 🇨🇦
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Thank you for this kind and thoughtful comment and for coming back year after year for so long 🙏🏻
@@SailorJames hey, if Quayside has ever considered production glass;
I have a little skiff design, with a whole different kind of rig, on my channel.
I wanted to get all the negatives of the design out of the way, but now I feel like they are in the way, because most don't make it very far into the video.
Love those Bruin colors!!
Kookaburra?! Hmmm google google.. oh! There are kookaburra in Warkworth! Learned something today! 😂
They were introduced to Kauwau island where he started this video. They sometimes fly to the North island.
Great vision and music. love your work
My old youthful stamping ground. The ruins in the background is the Wilson Cement works. I spent summers swimming in the fresh water lake behind. I lived not far away in Pulham Rd. My Dad was a boat builder at Sandspit. My brothers and I used to paddle down the river to Dawsons Rd. Big eels live in the fresh water lake. They will come and check you out when you swim.
Nice to meet you here
Love your no nonsense videos, and that new boot stripe 👍
The other colorful bird you mention was most likely the Eastern Rosella common locally around that area with kookaburra.
So good to hear the birds.
Brilliant video, 2 things I love sailing and NZ
That cleaning & painting seemed to go really well, and in no time at all. It was amazing to see how far that tide went out and how everything around it had adapted. Triteia looking very spick and love the yellow stripe. I hope the seller is following you. Happy Sails Sailor James.
Yes he follows me and I send him postcards still !
@@SailorJames So cool.
HiJames as a kiwi living on England really enjoying yhese videos. I grew up sailing in Raglan harbour (you go past that in your next video). I really appreciate the care you take to pronounce te reo Maori, which is special to all of us in Aeotearoa.
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Great looking paint job, nice straight lines! That brief look at the rudder, it looks like the repair you did last year is holding up super well. Great job!
Yeah the repair is perfect
Amazing video as always, appreciate you james. Tritea is so beautiful, always good to be able to see all of her.
Their is nothing like the freedom of the seas under sail.From time to time though they all need to be hauled out and maintenance done the keep the boat tip top.Its allways best to find a really good boat yard repairer. Their is only so much you can do yourself.Happy sailing.Bon Voyage.
Nice place for some needed maintenance! SkipRay, Kerry, Ireland.
Boat looks good.
nice with the yellow in there ..but then I am a sucker for blue and yellow being from sweden =) Another interesting video ! cant wait until the ice breaks on the lake my boat is in and go for an adventure =)
Good move with the boot strap. The colour and the height. Nice one.
Hey James, I’ve been away for a while. I found your channel when you had a couple hundred subscribers. Glad to see you hit over 100k. 👍👍✌️✌️
Same
Love the background music. Take care my friend Happy Saturday.💙☺🦋🎉
Really cool BoatYard! Its nice to have Your Boat painted and good to go for a couple more years! It looks great! Very awesome my friend. Wishing You all the best.🙏🏻👍
Yo James Good to see you again mate. X
Nice, she looks great, I like the big lift system, some cool engineering ✌️
Love the color!!
Love seeing things from my birth year...1965❤❤❤
Bottom is holding up so nice James 🤙🏼🤙🏼
Yeah dude, might have it blasted down to gelcoat in Thailand
@@SailorJames totally worth doing.
Awesome river cruise, I took Matakana all the way up to Warkworth on a falling tide in late January. Only hit the mud once, James, Enjoy our crazy country.
Cheers
I loved the market at Matakana , had my first white bait fish fritter there
I am once again commenting from my tiny high horse when i say PATREON GAAAAAAAANG!!!!
I would love to do this and get away from the madness here in the states! I’m ashamed of our leaders and the state of our republic! Definitely going to check in on a boat!
Another awesome video! 😊
Nice site. Glad it popped up. Cruised for 24 yrs. Finally swallowed the hook. Miss the life like heck,
Colorful birds are Lorakeets btw. Spent a good bit of time in NZ.
Great video. Thank you.
Hey James thanks for another awesome episode mate 👍 Good to see Triteia got a scrub and bum paint n new boots cheers mate 👍
Good to see the boat yard. I was working there a few years ago under previous owners. The yard is way nicer now. It was a bit run down back when I was there. Same lifter though. Happy cruising.
Great job bro welcome to New Zealand 🇳🇿 safe journey my friend
I was on board a 55ft steel yacht that went up there bit of a squeeze though
Great setup I helped a welder cut grind and weld this haul out trailer
A good shout out to a great yard. Very helpful and knowledgeable guys. Cool to see you in my hood, you would have gone straight past my boat in Mahurangi Harbour.
I love that boatyard
Wish you had shown launching your dingy and putting on the motor plus putting it back on the boat. I keep my dingy in the same place as yours but I generally take it off of the boat at the dock and pull it behind. Please show how you take it on and off in the water. Thanks for your great site.
That's very easy to get a small boat like that up the river, we take much larger vessels up the river regularly. You probably could have got to the yard at low tide, but obviously you couldn't have got out of the water!
When u make it to coromandel, we’ll greatly receive u!
Good job on painting the lines
It’s kinda weird on my other RUclipsr account you had only well less than a hundred followers. Now here you are man.❤
I haven’t had less than 100 since 2015
Had my boat ther,right next to the ramp. Sat on the mud,could only leave at high tide.
Hello James ⚓⛵⚓🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Hauled
I can never get enough of how gorgeous Triteia is. Thanks for the advice for getting from San Diego to L.A.
Fantastic boat yard indeed
Good job James ❤
Boat looks really good ,I especially like the strip looks awesome bro really good it gives it that pop
Looking like new nice job James
Very nice good job. I think it shows the first job was a good job
On fire my man, great sailing channel.
What date did you arrive at the yard? Thank you for videos.
James, you will be lucky to get 12 months out of that anti fouling system, I can believe you dint apply a self polishing paint, in tropical waters they work best, but don’t hope to get a 24 month’s out of a hard antifouling. Great videos by the way from a follower from Mallorca Spain.
I would NEVER use ablative, that stuff is garbage, I got more than 2 years out of my hard paint last time so you are wrong with your assumptions
@@SailorJames well, get ready for divecleaning.
Bro, I have sailed this boat more than 11k miles , you think I don’t know?
i like Triteia!
She's a *Good* Girl huh‽
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Was Your Last Bottom Paint at Ventura California. Currently Boat Residing in Oxnard California
I applied one coat in Hawaii when I did the rudder repair, but yes the last time I did two coats was in 2019 in Ventura
Mean bro just wondering if u have seen any U.F.O out and about lately? U cant beat the sky veiw out there on the open ocean. Ive seen some stuff out there
I have never seen a UFO
Dulce.
Any chance of saying hi. Are you coming Gizzy way. Otherwise I’ll come your way. Been following you on my other channel for years. I missed wild hippy.
I am already In Australia, all RUclips videos are time delayed , thanks for following along 🙏🏻
@@SailorJames Dang okay I’ll catch up in my travels. Actually I might be in Australia soon. Catching up with kids.
Just curious, what's the biggest mono you could sail singlehandedly?
100ft boat if all winches were electric. The real question is what size boat would you WANT to single hand and try to dock yourself? For me it would be around 40ft
Thanx man, I'm working' on something. Crackerjack.
James, I know you have traveled many nautical miles but I believe your greatest journey is your personal growth, experiences and love of this planet. So happy for you to have found a soul mate and thanks so much for sharing your life’s adventure with all of us!
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Nice episode James! -- QUESTION -- Sorry to pester but I need to pick your brain. Cape Dory vs Alberg (both Carl Alberg designs)-- assuming they were the same size and same price and same general condition, is there a reason to prefer one over the other? I guess what I am asking is whether one company built better in some way over the other? Albergs were built in Ontario Canada and Cape Dory was built in the NE of the United States...
I would say that if Cape Dorys have lead keel ballast rather than iron ballast that would be the biggest difference, lead would be a better choice, otherwise it’s just a choice of aesthetics
@@SailorJames ,,,excellent point about lead keel. I hadn't noticed that!
did it cost a lot for the paint & getting everything done
I was very lucky with the paint because some friends of mine with a 50ft cat bought too much paint for their bottom and gave me the remaining paint they had left over (probably $500+ worth)
@@SailorJames that was super nice of them
Hi James, what happened to your undside of you boat?
The boat is nearly 60 years old. It’s just old layers of paint, nothing wrong with it
Can you tell me what is price for Haulout / clean etc. thank you
$1348 NZD for haul out, hardstand, 4 lay days, water blast, sanding and splash.
Wowziz
Can you trust a marina like that to maintain their equipment so you don’t loose your boat!?
It’s not their hobby, it’s their business.
@@SailorJamesunfortunately that didn’t work out for my dad. He was doing a circumnavigation of the UK, stopped off in Wales to return home for my sisters birthday, and someone working for the Marina put a hole in his hull, sunk his yacht. They didn’t tell him until he got back to Wales!
Fortunately, he was insured and by chance came across a maritime lawyer in Weymouth. 😅. His yacht was fixed!
@@SailorJames no need to get defensive bud. I hear stories of this happening all over. So naturally you would be skeptic of a place where getting parts is pretty desolate.
Defensive???😂😂😂😂
@@SailorJames that right. Just because it’s their business, does not mean they don’t cut corners. I know because I own a business as well.
What does hualed out mean ?
To take the boat out of the water
@@SailorJames
Yes, but it is spelled “hauled” not “hauled”.
Put the bong down bro
I normally refrain from mention a guys lady, but mate, she has a nice bottom.
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@@SailorJamesUh, the boat...
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Yeah I know that’s what killed me 😂
@@SailorJamesOh, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. It was a subconscious reaction on my part after just having watched your introduction to Rhonda. I thought I may have offended you. I should have known better.
No copper?
Most bottom paint has copper in it
Still no osmosis.
Zero
Boatyard doesn't appear to have silt traps/filters to prevent everything you scrape off the hull from going straight into the tide. You can't get away with that in the Northland region.
Health and Safety has enter the chat
@@SailorJames More about the effects of anti-fouling and introduced organisms on the marine environment, matey. You know, the pristine waters you admired in your video. Health and safety would be more about rescuing penniless yachties when they get in the shit off our coast. I note you were also seeking to do the work on a pole. Those days are over, son. I hauled out boats for years. Your flippancy does you no credit.
OOOO managing to condescending and patronising in the same comment, quite the achievement @@northlandrider5396
are u going to sentinel island? Be careful tsunamis might come this year fam
That’s half way around the world from me