The haul out facility looks like a well oiled machine. Even better is the fact that you guys get stuff done with no drama or bullshit!. Your boat is very, very beautiful….:D
I commend you on the amount of work completed on such a large vessel, with one, then two and finally three working, in one week. Astounding 👏 Shout out to the tractor and lift operator and crew. Magnificent teamwork. Like threading a needle. 🏆
I discovered your channel yesterday and have enjoyed binge-watching all your videos. I was hauled at Norsand boatyard while this was going on. Peter and Cameron borrowed the rolling scaffold from my solar arch project for a weekend. It's cool to see how he used it to do the polishing. Thank goodness Peter stayed healthy during that time. It seemed everyone else was out sick and he darted about the boat yard from one project to another; keeping the balls in the air and all the plates spinning. It was an impressive feat. Thanks so much for your time and talent making these videos. I look forward to following your channel and sharing an anchorage some day.
Thanks so much, especially for letting us borrow the rolling scaffold - it was put to good use 😉 Hopefully see you in the islands for a catch up over a cold beer or two!
Really an unbelievable amount of work, in a short period of time. Hope Peter is recuperating from his illness and Thank God Marston was there to help you finish the bottom. "Little Wings" sailing towards the end was a blessing. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Luckily Pete never fell ill but everyone at his work did so he had to keep working and wasn’t able to take time off work for the haul out. We still managed to get through the work just between myself and my son and Pete had the weekend off to help with the painting and getting the last few jobs done for the launch. It was awesome sailing Little Wing for the first time and we think she looks beautiful in the water. Doesn’t take much to make her move. We will share her first sail in the next video 😉
One week? That’s incredible. After 3 days all that overhead work starts to really hit. There’s something incongruous about sitting on your duff and watching an almost superhuman level of effort and work ethic.
Acompanho sua paixão ( Camara ) desde o inicio de sua aquisição. Parabéns, pela sua obra de arte, ele é sua cara. Sou apaixonado pelo seu barco. Não existe barco mais lindo.
Big boat and I know that pressure well. I had to do mine on the inter tide walls so 4 hours every day so a week to clean, scrape, repair and then paint and ending up to my chest in the water almost every day!
catching up on some videos of yours i have to say that you are up there with the best boat management YT content i have seen yet, and there are only very few playing in your league, very well done and thx for sharing!! big fan already & greets from Germany!!
It has been four of us (the two of us and our two children) until January this year but our son is now working as a deckhand on a 74ft Sunreef catamaran so now it’s just the three of us 😉
Geez she looked precarious on that trailer, to me if you're gonna build a trailer that can take up to a 35 meter craft I would think the trailer would be much longer. There's a fair whack of hull just hanging there in space, especially on the bow end. Thats one lovely boat though, you did a great job there, she is a beast of a yacht.
What anti-fouling are you using? That's hardly any mess for three years in the water! Outstanding kudos to Marsden Marina for their superbly sound logistics! It really is a simple operation -- IF you do it right and in the right order. Marsden Marine does it right!
We were using Jotun Sea Force 90 but have switched to Carboline Sea Barrier 3000 as it is an ablative antifoul that does better with the growth in Nz. The Jotun was great in terms of being able to clean it as it’s hard wearing but if you look closely it didn’t stand up well to barnacles. The Sea Barrier does much better in that regard. Seeing we got a good coating of the hard wearing Jotun left we decided on the Sea Barrier/ablative to help with the growth. So far it’s working out 🤞
@@Camarasailing I was going to ask about this. with smaller boats, I like annual haulouts, and loved Pettit Trinidad Pro Hard antifouling, as it deterred pretty much everything for 3 years, and for the 4 following years roughky just a pressure wash de sliming on haulout . annual halout allowed a full checkover, full service, anodes and impeller changes etc, to ve set for another year. If Trinidad Pro is unavailable, that Jotun does look to be a useful alternative tbh. Another backup I may try is Hempel Silic One. For prop and such, I'm I trigger enough to try 97% Cold Galvanising Zinc paint in a si,icone carrier, on Prop, through hulls and rudder to test for a year, because in addition to it apparently working very well as an antifouling, it also works as an anode, which may help extend the life of anodes, at a much lower cost. Apparently American Fishing Boats have been successfully using ColdGalvanising Zinc Paint successfully for decades. and land based ersuons, are identical to Marine versions, but are a fraction of the price. I should, God willing, have my next Sailboat around haulout time at the end of this year, and will be able to start testing such things to see how well they stand up to expectations. Best Wishes and Fair Winds. Bob. 👍⛵️✨️✨️✨️
The boat yard should invest a standing platform that has rails to make it completely safe to work from, one step backwards of a platform could be the end of any sailing.
You can hire a rolling scaffold just like we have used and that one has a rail at the back. We used the tiny little step to make the overhead work a little easier but that one is super low off the ground 😉
That's a beautiful boat. I'm curious about the prop, which seems fairly small for an 80 ft. boat. My only point of reference is the prop on a 72 ft. steel sailboat, which was nearly 2 ft. in diameter.
It’s the prop that she had on when we got her. She pushes the boat just fine though we try and only motor if we have to because with a 185hp it gets expensive quickly and she doesn’t need much wind to sail. We usually motor at around 5.5-6kts, but occasionally open the engine up to blow out any carbon build up and at high rpm’s the boat speed is 12kts which makes us think the prop is the right size and pitch. Ideally one day we will one day upgrade to a feathering or folding prop so we can do away with the handbrake for the shaft. One day…
Lion NZ (which was a RTW raceboat about the same time) was swinging a 1m prop. But I think that was partly to game the rating rules; they gave undue allowance for props, and the one on Lion was a very slick feathering MaxProp, so it didn't slow the boat down as much as the handicap rules assumed. It was driven by a big, slow revving Gardner 6LXB (10.5 litre 1500 rpm diesel), wonderful engine but from memory only 125 hp or thereabouts...
@@Gottenhimfella interesting! We often have Lion NZ anchored here in the bay with us and we actually have their old main sail, just made some modifications to suit our boat 😉
We thought about it but Little Wing is more than capable to make the passage herself. There is a bit more work to do before she can go offshore though, like changing the rest of her standing rigging etc, so the plan is for our son to come up on Camara this season and leave LW in Nz and then next season both boats can sail in tandem north. That’s the plan at this stage 😉
Im impressed with the clean bottom for 3&1/2 years , What antifaul are you using , Have you given her a dive scrub in that time ( Funny how they always get sick when the day arrives) Just joking , Looking great .
Originally we used Jotun Sea Force 90 which is a hard wearing antifoul. Unfortunately when we originally launched we still had to finish the rigging, re-step the mast, put the generator back on etc so we were stationary up the river for 3 weeks which resulted in a lot of barnacles. So the downside was we had to clean her a lot ever since but because it’s a hard wearing antifoul that wasn’t a problem. This time we chose Carboline SeaBarrier 3000 as it’s done really well with growth in Nz waters and it’s done really great but the downside to that one is it’s an ablative antifoul so not as cleanable not that we have had to yet though.
@@Camarasailing Many years ago a bunch of yachties got together & bought a 44 gallon drum of Navy Antifoul off the Fiji navy ( They changed to a more inviro friendly type) Fantastic , As long as you were moving every month or so it would last for YEARS , I think we have gone backwards in some respects , Your boats looking beautiful, Going to be interesting keeping up with little wings LOL.
@@billhanna8838 interesting! Yeah some interesting new products out there on the market these days though most of those are pretty expensive so not really an option. The Sea Barrier 3000 is performing well so far though, we just worry every time we sail fast wether there’s any left on the hull 😂
We had used Jotun SeaForce90 which was great except three weeks in the river stationary after the launch getting our rigging sorted resulted in a lot of barnacles. This time we used Carboline SeaBarrier 3000 which is doing much better in NZ waters but because it’s an ablative antifoul it’s quite different to the last one. Less cleanable but also so far hasn’t needed any cleaning and we are one year in…
Thanks for the Video did Hubby give you a Massage for your Hard Work? I love the Gray Hull. Hope next Week be Longer. Will you ever Sail to America? Or Hawaii ? Do you know anyone looking for a Small Sailboat 42’ ? Thanks peace be With You
Thank you ☺️ At the moment we are still happy and content in the Pacific. We’ve done the Caribbean and sailed in the US on our last boat so no plans at this stage to go back but never say never 😉 Don’t personally know anyone looking for a 42’ yacht but I’m sure heaps of people out there looking now that the world is back to normal again and borders are open again!
Did you get rid of the winch grinders? I noticed they are missing. I guess they were needed for the southern ocean rather than the warm climates you're cruising. I followed Creightons Naturally during the 89/90 Whitbread closely.
Yes we did. We never put them back after the refit as we changed the sailing set up to suit sailing her short handed. Part of that was an electric winch for the main and the furling lines. The rest still requires some good old grinding action though. We kept the old big winches even though they aren’t installed. Hoping to one day convert them to a hydraulic or electric set up when the budget allows.
The antifoul we used initially when we splashed after the refit was Jotun Sea Force 90 which is a hard wearing antifoul and easy to clean but as you can see in some of the clips it wasn’t very effective against barnacles especially here in NZ. This time we used an ablative antifoul Carboline Sea Barrier 3000 which is performing well in Nz waters. Not as cleanable but usually a fast sail takes off any growth which is usually just a slimey layer. We just worry when we sail real fast if there’s any antifouling left 😂
Impressive job getting all that work done yourselves in a week, but as someone who is currently typing with one finger because of rotator cuff surgery this week, it pains me to see all the overhead arm work you did.
This haul out cost us all up $5k which includes the haul & launch, water blast, hard stand and all the materials we used including antifoul and prop speed. With a boat that size it’s obviously not as cheap as a 40ft boat which is why we haul every few years and do all the work ourselves 😉
