My uncle was Captain of a B.C. Public Works vessel , the Walronda, with almost identical lines of Argonaut! She was powered by a pair of Gardner 5L3's. When I was around 13 or 14 she had telegraphs, and an Engineer in the E.R. I had some occasions to relieve him at that impressionable age! That's why I became an Engineer! Now retired 86, and still sailing a Challenger 32! John Colley
Love your boat & your channel. I am new viewer & sub to your content but have followed Tally Ho for long time.i am pleased to meet you all in the vids . Thanks for the opportunity & your content. Look forward to wat h with interest .
Most modern boats look like an iron / ironer (in dutch 'strijkbout'). Technically advanced, but plastic all around. The Argonaut is a real boat, looks like a boat and you live on a boat. It has a soul and you fall in love with this ship.
What a great treat to watch your videos! Thank you for sharing! 50 years ago I worked on a charter salmon fishing boat MV Marabell which would crawl up from Victoria to Alaska in the summer months. The boat was an old wooden minesweeper I believe. There were about 5-6 guest cabins on board. Your videos bring back a lot of great memories of my summer. I was 17 years old at the time!😮
I believe later on Oakbay Marine Group, bought the MV Marabell, and they used it as a floating charter fishing outpost, It would follow the fish and was there Northern outpost. You would fly in and they had a Float with a fleet of small fishing boats. Very cool.
Thanks for the tour through a scenic part of the World that most will never see. It was certainly convenient for the Tally Ho crew to have a floating kitchen and eating area accompanying them.
AMAZING! Great story telling, excellent cinematography, the drones, the music, the views, the upbeat informative narration. This is premium youtube travelog content!!! I would watch this all day long!
Hi, Nicholas! I live in a suburban house in the Atlanta area, and I sail a twelve foot, Phil Bolger designed, plywood skiff that I built more than forty years ago. I met you through Leo Goolden, who I came across on RUclips the same week he visited Tally Ho, all forlorn in a field in Oregon. I got to visit T.H. and company last year, during the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, staying with my brother, who lives on Whidbey Island! It’s a strange and wonderful world, isn’t it! 🎉
I grew up right where you were in Powell River. Spent a lot of time in Desolation, Toba, Jervis and to be honest ... I had no clue how beautiful the area was until I moved away to Alberta, then California where I now work. If I could figure out a way to live and work back home I would do it in a blink. However the Mill is closed and housing costs have increased well beyond the possiblility for a local resident can afford.
Wading through the salal is always, at some point, an immersion into the West Coast experience. You always come away with itchy scratches, and for the first half of my life I didn't understand why. It's the dread Pacific Blackberry, which subtly entwines itself everywhere, but especially loves climbing through salal. You'd hardly notice it, if not for the scratches.
Your trip looks like so much fun! Steak, crab cakes and hanging out with friends in beautiful scenery must be amazing. Thanks for the diagram too!. I would have never understood about the eddy currents, etc. without it.
Great video, so cool that you are tripping with TallyHo. As a new creator I am enjoying your videos and watching how you present the content, I will be honest and say that I will be taking some ideas from you and trying to implement them. My wife and I will be heading out for the month of August and staying in the southern portion the the Canadian PNW on our not quite as classic wooden boat, hope to catch sight of your beautiful ship while we are out. Subscribed after seeing your channel the first time (Emergency haul out video, that was in my home port) and look forward to each video.
Some challenging waters but so beautiful. I learned to sail a small boat on a large fast moving tidal river and the reverse eddies are the only way to get up and down river. It was a great early lesson for me.
@@MV_Argonaut Thanks so much for taking the time to reply .... I think that I have 'Shared' this with you before .... :-) :-) :-) But Every Time I see your "GARDENER" Engine I think of this Fantastic 'Old Man' .... What he has forgotten, we Still have to Learn ... And Joe's accent and 'Term of Phrase' is Absolutely Wonderful www.youtube.com/@tangentgardner .... Best to All from ChCh, NZ
Hey there Nicholas. I absolutely love the videos you putting out not sure how I ended up finding this page but am sure glad I did. I spent 15 years taking our Commercial fishing boat back and forth to Alaska love the inside passage look forward to the next one.!!
Great video love seeing places I use to vist. Lagoon cove provided shrimp feed at the potluck back in the day. Can't remember where but they did Pancake breakfast, bring your own plate and Syrup?.
Hi Dan! No need - I can do about 1300 miles between fuel stops and was full up on provisions. We did a re provision in port McNeil, and I’ll pick up fuel probably there or Campbell River on my way back.
Good question! I’ll maybe add something in on the way back - it’s pretty quick and straightforward as you clear yourself on a customs dock in any number of ports of entry. It’s rather a boring experience but I do get that question often and it’s a great idea to include on my trip south
Great video! I never realized how complex the coast of BC is. Does Argonaut II have a SSB radio? If so, is it equipped with Pactor? Is it normal for vessels in your cruising area to have SSB and Pactor?
Hi Don! I am less familiar with SSB, but it might be used on larger ships? Requirements are for vessels to carry VHF radios, which have different channels assigned for different purposes - with everyone monitoring 16 as a hailing channel / emergency channel. Other designations are for commercial traffic, marinas, pleasure boaters, etc.
@@MV_Argonaut Single Side Band (SSB) a.k.a. shortwave, has a much longer range than line-of-sight VHF, e.g., thousands of miles if conditions are right. Pactor is a system that enables SSB to do data communication, albeit at a slow speed. It is good enough to transmit and receive email. It would seem that a vessel that operates out of VHF range would have SSB on board as a backup to the now widely used satellite systems.
First-rate travelogue. Even if I don't personally favor the super-quick-cut editing of the montage bits, I know that's the accepted modern style for this sort of thing, especially if you're attempting to limit the overall duration. The part I was carefully trying to pause and repeat a few times, was the segment of Tally and Argo both pitching head-on into that infamously typical short-period medium-size Salish Sea chop. Which at its worst, is well known to often be ironically much more "uncomfortable" than some of the much bigger stuff offshore. I wonder if you have some more of that footage that could be posted in a longer continuous clip without too much editing effort. Just to see the visual documentation of how a really legendary "sea boat" like Tally Ho handles it. I'll hope that Leo with his hard-core offshore sailing experience, will specifically comment on this issue from that day, when he posts his next installment. When he surely includes some of this footage (which the two of you are obviously swapping to some extent), perhaps that obviates you posting it redundantly. But at the least, I would be interested in your perspective on how Argo feels in those "lumpy" conditions, how often you've encountered them, your personal tolerance re. resulting sea-sickness, etc. From what I can see, Argonaut does seem to have the sort of relatively "gentle" motion that used to be a design priority in the old days. A virtue that has been lost with most modern types built for speed and/or capacity at all costs. Oh, I almost forgot... Leaving all these other issues aside, that whole hand-drawn-diagram bit about the tidal "rapids", the back-eddies, and Perilous PNW Passages, was more than worth the price of entry (so to speak). An Education all by itself. Outstanding summary.
Thanks so much for the thoughtful comments! To answer some of your questions - the boats have been performing quite differently in different sea states - mostly due to the significant difference in hull sizes (48' vs. 73') so different wave periods are more comfortable on one vs. the other. I personally try to avoid any sea state at all, given the amount of rot that still exists in my port side (see the episode I put up on the Emergency Haul out I just had to perform after hitting about a 4' sea state across Juan de Fuca Straight). Always, when Tally Ho (or any sailboat) have their sails up, the boats stabilize quite a bit and will cut nicely through most swells. Argonaut does well head on or quartered, but is extremely rolly on a beam sea which is very uncomfortable and maybe a little dangerous. My goal is to find a way to help perform the repairs to the port side, as well as the stern stemson which is quite rotten at the moment (the starboard side doing much better after we replaced 37 planks and 20+ frames last year). I do have some longer footage from that day, as does Leo - let's see what he puts up in his next video.
@@MV_Argonaut Well, now you're onto another issue well understood by the old timers. Specifically, the use of a "steadying sail" on a short-ish mast retained for that purpose, on some workboats otherwise designed with engine-only propulsion. Anyway, we'll leave Argo to her design intent: Not offshore, and not bound to the productivity-schedule demands of fishing. Hopefully you are thus afforded the luxury of "choosing your angles" for comfort.
Yes, but not too much! I have some friends coming in and out of Bella Bella, so will be doing week long trips around King Island, up some of the inlets, and a little bit of exploring outside (west) of the Inside Passage. I'm currently anchored just north of Ivory Island.
What a beautiful scenerys. Just fyi from around 6:00 the subtitles seam to be mixed up, meaning subtitles without somebody speaking and when the speech pciks up again the subtitles and audio are not matching
Hi Graham, thanks for the feedback. What is it that you are looking for? Is there other content that you would more enjoy? Looking to see what's best for the audience
Leo's videos are alive and well! He's on a bigger adventure right now out to Haida Gwaii and having trouble with his Starlink connection--so keep an eye out for his videos once he's back.
You are making great videos, am glad TallyHo braught me here!
Thank you!
Same here.
Excellent content. I am enjoying your yacht, the cruising, the cuisine and your commentary. Thank you for taking us along on your adventures!
Thanks for watching!
My uncle was Captain of a B.C. Public Works vessel , the Walronda, with almost identical lines of Argonaut! She was powered by a pair of Gardner 5L3's. When I was around 13 or 14 she had telegraphs, and an Engineer in the E.R. I had some occasions to relieve him at that impressionable age! That's why I became an Engineer! Now retired 86, and still sailing a Challenger 32!
John Colley
Love your boat & your channel. I am new viewer & sub to your content but have followed Tally Ho for long time.i am pleased to meet you all in the vids . Thanks for the opportunity & your content. Look forward to wat h with interest .
Most modern boats look like an iron / ironer (in dutch 'strijkbout'). Technically advanced, but plastic all around. The Argonaut is a real boat, looks like a boat and you live on a boat. It has a soul and you fall in love with this ship.
I agree!
Two stunning boats sailing in company through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Thank you!
I learned a lot from your explanation of navigating the rapids. Thanks for that!
Glad you’re having such a fun adventure. We really enjoy your videos too. Phil & Jodi -Joyful.
Hi Phil and Jodi! Good to hear from you. Thank you!
Sure miss my time on the fishboats in my youth and watching Leo's and your journey brings a flood of memories. Thank you.
What a great treat to watch your videos! Thank you for sharing! 50 years ago I worked on a charter salmon fishing boat MV Marabell which would crawl up from Victoria to Alaska in the summer months. The boat was an old wooden minesweeper I believe. There were about 5-6 guest cabins on board. Your videos bring back a lot of great memories of my summer. I was 17 years old at the time!😮
I just looked up MV Marabell - very cool (and a much bigger boat)! Thanks for sharing.
I believe later on Oakbay Marine Group, bought the MV Marabell, and they used it as a floating charter fishing outpost, It would follow the fish and was there Northern outpost. You would fly in and they had a Float with a fleet of small fishing boats. Very cool.
Yes. I worked on the Marabell in 1974, half a century ago 🤦♂️
I really enjoy following the travels of Argonaut II. A beautiful ship indeed!
Thanks for the tour through a scenic part of the World that most will never see. It was certainly convenient for the Tally Ho crew to have a floating kitchen and eating area accompanying them.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's always fun to go cruising with other boats / friends.
Great companion to Leo’s channel (especially since it has been some time since he uploaded). Thanks!!
What an amazing video, loved the music, scenery and the narration as well as all the nice boats. Many thanks...
AMAZING! Great story telling, excellent cinematography, the drones, the music, the views, the upbeat informative narration. This is premium youtube travelog content!!! I would watch this all day long!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that feedback.
Hi, Nicholas! I live in a suburban house in the Atlanta area, and I sail a twelve foot, Phil Bolger designed, plywood skiff that I built more than forty years ago. I met you through Leo Goolden, who I came across on RUclips the same week he visited Tally Ho, all forlorn in a field in Oregon. I got to visit T.H. and company last year, during the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, staying with my brother, who lives on Whidbey Island! It’s a strange and wonderful world, isn’t it! 🎉
Thanks for sharing! Come back to this year's boat show (we will both be there!)
Patty and the Crab 🤣🤣🤣
i wouldn't do any better.
Thank you for sharing this particularly EPICALLY BEAUTIFUL video! I have subscribed ! The length, the scenery, the music top shelf all around.
Thank you very much!
I grew up right where you were in Powell River. Spent a lot of time in Desolation, Toba, Jervis and to be honest ... I had no clue how beautiful the area was until I moved away to Alberta, then California where I now work. If I could figure out a way to live and work back home I would do it in a blink. However the Mill is closed and housing costs have increased well beyond the possiblility for a local resident can afford.
Wading through the salal is always, at some point, an immersion into the West Coast experience.
You always come away with itchy scratches, and for the first half of my life I didn't understand why. It's the dread Pacific Blackberry, which subtly entwines itself everywhere, but especially loves climbing through salal. You'd hardly notice it, if not for the scratches.
A couple of really nice boats. All the best.
What a beautiful part of the world in a beautiful boat. Thanks for sharing. John
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Love these vlogs! Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much!
What an absolutely stunning cruising area, shown beautifully in your video, thank you.
Many thanks!
What an incredible adventure and incredible video!! Well done!! Time to pull out my charts and investigate your journey! DD
Your trip looks like so much fun! Steak, crab cakes and hanging out with friends in beautiful scenery must be amazing. Thanks for the diagram too!. I would have never understood about the eddy currents, etc. without it.
Thanks for all the kind comments! Having a great time, makes wooden boat ownership worthwhile
Hope TallyNaut stays together forever
Hahaha I hope so, too!
Love watching your adventures aboard the Argonaut Nick!
Thanks, Karen! Good to hear from you! Hope you are well
Wow super cool vids thanks m8t.
Glad you like them!
Super great video!
Glad you liked it!
The lady is an outstanding fiddle player. Her virtuosity mirrors her beauty. Excellent video!
Awesome adventure Nick!
Beautiful territory.
Thank you so much for doing what you’re doing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude, that is living the LIFE! That is just the most fun you can have living. I am SO jealous! Keep it coming my dude! I love the vids.
The west coast of Canada is probably the best cruising grounds ever.
I agree!
enjoyed the tutorial and especially the graphics. nice contrast to all the computer stuff
Great video of what looks like an amazing start to your trip!
Thanks so much!
Fascinating region, I always imagined it being almost uninhabited because of being so remote and cold.
Awesome scenery and video...
Thank you very much!
New viewer also. Very nice video, fantastic sceneries, very nice boats as well!😎
Excellent, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
amazing scenery and what a holiday to have ,simply stunning,
An excellent video.
My grandpa grew up in Mimkwamlis
What a great cruise and adventure! Love the way Argonaut looks on the water.
Thank you!
Great video, so cool that you are tripping with TallyHo. As a new creator I am enjoying your videos and watching how you present the content, I will be honest and say that I will be taking some ideas from you and trying to implement them. My wife and I will be heading out for the month of August and staying in the southern portion the the Canadian PNW on our not quite as classic wooden boat, hope to catch sight of your beautiful ship while we are out. Subscribed after seeing your channel the first time (Emergency haul out video, that was in my home port) and look forward to each video.
Awesome! Thank you! I’ll be heading back down south towards the middle of August. Come say hi at the Victoria wooden boat festival!
Some challenging waters but so beautiful. I learned to sail a small boat on a large fast moving tidal river and the reverse eddies are the only way to get up and down river. It was a great early lesson for me.
It’s a pretty cool phenomenon once you learn how to read them! Thanks for sharing.
great trip
Thanks for the Great Vidclip .... Absolutelu Beautiful Scenery .... Best to ALL from ChCh, NZ
Many thanks!
@@MV_Argonaut Thanks so much for taking the time to reply .... I think that I have 'Shared' this with you before .... :-) :-) :-) But Every Time I see your "GARDENER" Engine I think of this Fantastic 'Old Man' .... What he has forgotten, we Still have to Learn ... And Joe's accent and 'Term of Phrase' is Absolutely Wonderful www.youtube.com/@tangentgardner .... Best to All from ChCh, NZ
Yes I’ve watched some of his videos!
Hey there Nicholas. I absolutely love the videos you putting out not sure how I ended up finding this page but am sure glad I did. I spent 15 years taking our Commercial fishing boat back and forth to Alaska love the inside passage look forward to the next one.!!
Hi Matt! Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate that. It's absolutely beautiful up here and I'm excited to keep going!
Nicholas. Your narration is amazing. The scenery is beautiful. I am glad that I subscribed to your RUclips channel. I also follow Leo on Tally Ho
Welcome aboard!
Excellent trip! Great video-well done!
Thanks a lot!
Great video love seeing places I use to vist. Lagoon cove provided shrimp feed at the potluck back in the day. Can't remember where but they did Pancake breakfast, bring your own plate and Syrup?.
They still do shrimp! No signs of pancakes, though…
Hello, I'm enjoying your videos. I'm a bit surprised when you came through Dodds Narrows and didn't stop in Nanaimo for fuel and resupply.
Hi Dan! No need - I can do about 1300 miles between fuel stops and was full up on provisions. We did a re provision in port McNeil, and I’ll pick up fuel probably there or Campbell River on my way back.
What model of Fairbanks Morse engine came with the boat before the Gardner?
Thanks!
Thank you!!
I spotted a Jimmy!
Cameo!
I'm curious as to what was involved in clearing customs to enter Canada as no mention was made of it. Great video
Good question! I’ll maybe add something in on the way back - it’s pretty quick and straightforward as you clear yourself on a customs dock in any number of ports of entry. It’s rather a boring experience but I do get that question often and it’s a great idea to include on my trip south
Great video! I never realized how complex the coast of BC is. Does Argonaut II have a SSB radio? If so, is it equipped with Pactor? Is it normal for vessels in your cruising area to have SSB and Pactor?
Hi Don! I am less familiar with SSB, but it might be used on larger ships? Requirements are for vessels to carry VHF radios, which have different channels assigned for different purposes - with everyone monitoring 16 as a hailing channel / emergency channel. Other designations are for commercial traffic, marinas, pleasure boaters, etc.
@@MV_Argonaut Single Side Band (SSB) a.k.a. shortwave, has a much longer range than line-of-sight VHF, e.g., thousands of miles if conditions are right. Pactor is a system that enables SSB to do data communication, albeit at a slow speed. It is good enough to transmit and receive email. It would seem that a vessel that operates out of VHF range would have SSB on board as a backup to the now widely used satellite systems.
Invite sailing magic carpet on your boat they in bc right now
Is that fiddle from Tally Ho?
First-rate travelogue. Even if I don't personally favor the super-quick-cut editing of the montage bits, I know that's the accepted modern style for this sort of thing, especially if you're attempting to limit the overall duration.
The part I was carefully trying to pause and repeat a few times, was the segment of Tally and Argo both pitching head-on into that infamously typical short-period medium-size Salish Sea chop. Which at its worst, is well known to often be ironically much more "uncomfortable" than some of the much bigger stuff offshore. I wonder if you have some more of that footage that could be posted in a longer continuous clip without too much editing effort. Just to see the visual documentation of how a really legendary "sea boat" like Tally Ho handles it.
I'll hope that Leo with his hard-core offshore sailing experience, will specifically comment on this issue from that day, when he posts his next installment. When he surely includes some of this footage (which the two of you are obviously swapping to some extent), perhaps that obviates you posting it redundantly. But at the least, I would be interested in your perspective on how Argo feels in those "lumpy" conditions, how often you've encountered them, your personal tolerance re. resulting sea-sickness, etc. From what I can see, Argonaut does seem to have the sort of relatively "gentle" motion that used to be a design priority in the old days. A virtue that has been lost with most modern types built for speed and/or capacity at all costs.
Oh, I almost forgot... Leaving all these other issues aside, that whole hand-drawn-diagram bit about the tidal "rapids", the back-eddies, and Perilous PNW Passages, was more than worth the price of entry (so to speak). An Education all by itself. Outstanding summary.
Thanks so much for the thoughtful comments! To answer some of your questions - the boats have been performing quite differently in different sea states - mostly due to the significant difference in hull sizes (48' vs. 73') so different wave periods are more comfortable on one vs. the other. I personally try to avoid any sea state at all, given the amount of rot that still exists in my port side (see the episode I put up on the Emergency Haul out I just had to perform after hitting about a 4' sea state across Juan de Fuca Straight).
Always, when Tally Ho (or any sailboat) have their sails up, the boats stabilize quite a bit and will cut nicely through most swells. Argonaut does well head on or quartered, but is extremely rolly on a beam sea which is very uncomfortable and maybe a little dangerous. My goal is to find a way to help perform the repairs to the port side, as well as the stern stemson which is quite rotten at the moment (the starboard side doing much better after we replaced 37 planks and 20+ frames last year).
I do have some longer footage from that day, as does Leo - let's see what he puts up in his next video.
@@MV_Argonaut
Well, now you're onto another issue well understood by the old timers. Specifically, the use of a "steadying sail" on a short-ish mast retained for that purpose, on some workboats otherwise designed with engine-only propulsion. Anyway, we'll leave Argo to her design intent: Not offshore, and not bound to the productivity-schedule demands of fishing. Hopefully you are thus afforded the luxury of "choosing your angles" for comfort.
Yes - and given the amount of rotting wood in the port side...I tend to only move on nice weather days :)
❤
Will u be making your way further north than Bella Bella?
Yes, but not too much! I have some friends coming in and out of Bella Bella, so will be doing week long trips around King Island, up some of the inlets, and a little bit of exploring outside (west) of the Inside Passage. I'm currently anchored just north of Ivory Island.
@@MV_Argonaut okay I was just wondering as I live on Haida Gwaii and was hoping to see the boat up in this area.
Unfortunately I don’t think she’s fit for the crossing, but maybe one day! Hope to replace all the rot in the port side and then I’d be up for it!
@@MV_Argonaut would be amazing to see u and the boat up here on Haida gwaii exploring what the island has to offer.
What a beautiful scenerys. Just fyi from around 6:00 the subtitles seam to be mixed up, meaning subtitles without somebody speaking and when the speech pciks up again the subtitles and audio are not matching
Ahh good catch! I just updated the subtitles and think that fixed the problem. Thank you for the feedback!
I worked up there on a salmon, prawn boat many years. Have to say so spoiled, wheres the money coming from?
Is that the Tally Ho fiddle that was made using wood from the original boat? If so, I feel like this is its debut!
...I don't believe it is, sorry!
🙂
Was that a whale at 6:15?
Such a beautiful boat and great scenery! But the narration seems totally rushed. Super fast talking, hectic cuts... is no fun.
Hi Sonja, thank you for the feedback. I’ll try and make some adjustments in the next video
@@MV_Argonaut Very exciting to see where your cruise will take you. Thank you for taking us "on board". And sorry if I sounded a bit rude!!
Not at all! I'm still learning how to edit / don't want to sound too drawn out and boring.
Lovely old boat, but didn't really seek out a RUclips on motoring around a few islands near Canada. Good luck anyway
Hi Graham, thanks for the feedback. What is it that you are looking for? Is there other content that you would more enjoy? Looking to see what's best for the audience
I'm glad I found you now that Leo doesn't do videos anymore
Leo's videos are alive and well! He's on a bigger adventure right now out to Haida Gwaii and having trouble with his Starlink connection--so keep an eye out for his videos once he's back.
@@MV_Argonaut we'll have to see
You could always go on your own adventures and make your own videos???
@dennisdownes9319 Yes! swashbuckling on the high seas, it will be epic! make sure to tune in!
I see he hasn't gotten the satellite straightened out yet
gawd I hope that wasnt Poison ivy you was tripsin thru 😬😬 wow some fantastic adventuring thanks for sharing the good times 🇺🇸
Haha I hope not, either! I was fine afterwards, just some scratches.