Hammerhead 54 - John Barry s/v Avalanche Interview & Boat Tour, Part 3, DrakeParagon Season 5, #38 

John Barry is living the passion.

Excellent, a real learning experience. Thank you!

Great interview, fantastic boat. Thanks very much .

Wow what a boat, what a man, what a adventure. What a interview.

I would give everybody's gonads and souls to have lived/be living this Man's life! Awesome!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⛵⚓🌬🌊

Awesome boat and incredible skipper :)

Great interview and tour, he's very interesting....

Fascinating guy. Adrenaline junkie, high energy, what’s next kind of guy. Great series with him. Thanks.

Great interview of a very inspirational man ! (By an inspirational man)

Drake, these are soooo interesting .... and y'all are there, too .... big thumbs ups!!!

I've got to the 3rd show and love the story... cool life.

Thanks for doing this interview Drake.

Great to see a nice guy who is successful and family oriented love sailing … fast! I loved your discrimination of not defining yourself as a sailor and how that bothered you. I going through that now and your story has given me some inspiration. Thank you!!

This video needs renaming to, "Honey, we need a bigger boat":)

In some respects I can relate to the way John Barry grew up. I grew up in a sailing family with a father who had a winning record racing S-Boats and sailing dinghies. My younger sister was almost born 2 months prematurely on our S-Boat when my parents were out for an afternoon sail and I was home with the sitter. I also don't remember being taught but earliest recollections of sailing when I was about 5 are of trips with my father while he let me take the tiller of our smaller Herreshoff design boat and steer, by pointing out a landmark to head towards while he stretched out on the cockpit and "took a nap". After sailing the boat 3 miles or so for a 45 minutes across Narragansett Bay heading to Newport Harbor, he would take over. I can also relate to the yacht club scene, sailing lessons and racing... and marinating in the Newport Rhode Island America's Cup races scene watching the cup defenders practice in front of our house.... and much later, after a move, being landlocked after always having been able to sail previously whenever I wanted to and race every so often. Now living in the Carolinas, I began thinking that living so close to sea level wasn't so safe and moved 5 hours inland. Then after 7 years inland without sailing and really missing it, I bought a trailer-able sailing dinghy and finally after a 1.5 hour hike to a sail-able lake, I ended withdrawals and was finally able to sail again after having not sailed for so long. It is hardly as nice and comfortable as it once was being able to row out to the boat, have guests comfortably seat themselves and take them out for a leisurely afternoon sail on a bay and out into the ocean before sailing back to the mooring. But if you grow up a sailor and become land locked, you can only go for so long before you need to sail again no matter what boat you are in or body of water.

Two in one week! Be still my beating heart! I really enjoy hearing all of the life stories, I may have said this before but it reminds me of Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" only you're on the seas meeting so many interesting and unique humans all choosing the road (seas) less traveled. I wonder what/where they are today. Thanks as always!

Such thrilling video conversation of a real multihull adventure daredevil cruiser. I hope to watch hammerhead s RU-vid underway. Wouldn't that be fantastic?..thank you drake paragon and best luck to both crews, wonderful!..

Awesome guy 👍

I had to smile. My Newick 35 Echo would lift her stern and uncover most of her spade rudder as we crested long quartering swells and round up. This made spinnaker control a right pain so I wrote to Dick and asked if we could improve tracking with a deeper rudder or a small retractable foil just ahead of it Back came the response … “my designs are perfectly balanced” …

This is a great interview series!

Great interview. I need to get out on a multi-hull.

Another great "Paragon and Freinds". Thx Drake, Eanna, Mo (nyuk nyuk)

I wanna go sailing with him. He's hilarious.

great interview, thanks!

I shared a link to sailing less plastic, a couple rebuilding a trimaran I hope they view these episodes. I've really enjoyed the content. Thanks for sharing a great story.

LOL I'm from Greenwich CT 🙌 There's a 12 Meter (K18) in Indian Harbor now. Holy Crap he raced a Stiletto 30 in the Halifax race ? That's epic. I could listen to this guy for days.

good interview load to learn

Seems like a smart guy. He obviously is not worried about money.

Brilliant

John’s ideas are fantastic He has to be a water sign to be so avid a seaman.

I guess John is done sailing the cat is up for grabs.... $400K Excellent interview, I loved his life story.

will he ever come to stornoway it would be great to see

great story John. She is an incredible boat. Would love to know how much money it takes to maintain this boat on an average year? Any comments appreciated. I see she is for sale down in Long Beach....someone is going to get lucky

what's the boat he's talking about at 8:04? 40 ft nuoc?

so basically he started with a ski boat with a motor and in the end, went to one with sails.

What's the core made of?

There used to be a RU-vid Channel of a European Couple that sailed around the world in a 27' trimaran.

Fascinating interview BUT! I really wish you would show more of the boat especially when systems and rigs etc are being discussed. We don't need to see faces talking all the time and we can't get what is being discussed if we can't see it. Please take longer shots of the boat' both inside and out, it would be much appreciated otherwise you may as well be sitting in a recording studio. Many thanks Guy

Family money, makes life easy when you don't have to work for it.

Eaton’s Neck!! Woo hoo.

Beware the me monster.

It's not polite to ask some q he already told you

:)

unlimited resources ... the hole life

not my type of person.