definitely make more videos man! You are the most out there doing it dude about! So many videos are so full of it you know. Yours are the most real about.....and you're really doing some impressive things mate....
Thanks! Its really hard to know what people are getting from my videos from just a view or subcriber count so its great to know that people are hearing what i am trying to say. So i really appreciate your comment
I think you should start selling T-shirts to help fund yourself and get some proper sails . Love your channel and would like to see you sail to Fiji or Tonga and beyond !
Nice to catch a glimpse of Christchurch. I haven't been there for over 20 years. And of course seeing you fixing your sails, and of course putting in some great sailing on your luverly little Proa. 🤭 I know what you mean about the foil noise. I can hear them like that in Tawais cabin, just from the little ones on their stoopid expensive foil boards, whether electric or inflatable wing driven. Must be tip vortexes methinks. Good luck for the Cook strait crossing, I'm sure you'll keep well clear of that filthy great big 100m cliff on the top of the sea that forms as the fully flowing tides drop off 2km into the cook strait canyon. ❤👍🌊🐉
Loving the videos. Discovered your channel a few weeks ago and watched the entire series of you fixing the warram, then went down a rabbit hole learning about Proas. If you ever sail to Sydney you have a friend near the water.
Thanks phill! Thats awesome made my day to hear you went back and watched the whole restoration series! Not currentlymplanning to go to sydney but i cant rule it out!
Great video, your tarp repair looks sturdy. Someone would spend thousands on a new sail for something they'd barely understand. You become wiser the more you modify and repair your fleet it and making it usable 😁 Love to see it! Keep it up!
Yeah thats whay i figure! Sail repair is an essential skill and an old sail is a good opportunity to learn it! Luckily i have a smaller head sail thats in much better condition, probably because previous owners did not use it often
It my old home town Christchurch. My parents met on a ship on the way to work in NZ. In those days there was free passage for tradesmen and women who had qualifications in nursing and other needed trades. It looks no different than I remember 30 years back. Lyttleton is an awesome place to dock but in winter you want to go north.
@@dominictarrsailing Nelson is special, brings back memories of summer holidays, remember Picton like that also, it’s the place where time stands still. Those shops seem to never change even the stuff they sell, it’s the same as in those days.
Another excellent video. Loved the footage of the little proa; she really gets going. A bit of wool on the camera mic should help with the wind noise. This is becoming my favorite "real" sailing channel.
Thank you! I did install some fluff recently (and nobody commented about wind noise on the previous video!) getting it to stay put is the next challenge. (So far superglue works for a while)
Kia Ora mate, thanks for the video of my home port, iv only recently found your channel after seeing you sail past while I was out to watch the gp, a few of us from the Lyttleton sailing community got chatting about your boat with outrigger in tow, and I got pointed to your channel, brilliant content and style. Regarding crossing the bar into monks bay it’s definitely worth it, I’ve had my yacht in there on mooring and found the yacht club very hospitable and the Redcliffs sumner community is great. Chur mate
I was there 30 years ago, South Island fortunately does not change much, I had relatives living in Christchurch and Lyttleton. Hope the sail hangs together!
Thanks for sharing, my liveaboard father hates the chariots as they are not "real boats". 😂 Interesting the noise from the foils. Your videos are fab, thanks for sharing them when you can. These calmer less life threatening ones are welcomed.
Ha thaks for saying that! While i was making it is seemed almost too booring. Glad to know you enjoyed it. They are not really boats, not once they are flying. I call them foilcraft. A category that includes both airplanes and sailboats!
Bro I seen you resting at the back end of the harbour. I’m a carver and work at the Whakaraupō Carving Centre. Next time you’re in town call in bro. Thanks for sharing your g Journey. I’m a friend of Scott Watson who has always rated warrams
Great episode Dominic! Saw you parked up on the Maitai the other day. Hope you had a pleasant stay. Gotta say - that bamboo camera pole is pretty sweet!
@@Tyler-s7s yeah the best bit was when one nearly hit us! It didnt look like that on the camera but it definitely felt like that when it was happening!
@@dominictarrsailing Nah bro I just watched it again and it looked nuts on camera. You see how these guys race. 20 ft from your boat is a mile for them, for us it's full panic mode 🤣 Awesome footage!
Awesome little cruise in Lyttelton Dominic! That sail repair is actually a very smart idea because you are using poly tarp which is softer than Dacron so you don't get the hinge point that you would get from using a stiff new Dacron. Often the sail repair just rips around the edge of the new and old cloth when using a stiff new dacron for the repair.
Oh that is very interesting! What if you repaired the sail with old dacron? I did a repair like this (though a bit smaller) on the working jib of my raven 26, and its still going. (Repair was done enroute auckland to wellington, a little past east cape! So it has seen some miles, although that wasnt a wind caused tear it was a snag caused tear)
With old sails, it is normally the leach that goes first. So a good idea to reinforce the whole leach. I bought a 10cm strip of repair cloth, it was actually to make new batten pockets, but was really too stiff for that, but ideal for the leach, especially as it was becoming hooked. My working jib is a tall narrow Solent style, it came with two battens, now has four. It is getting on its last legs, so my dreadful sewing didn’t worry me. I do have a very heavy duty old domestic machine. But it has two issues, the motor is not powerful enough. And I cannot get the bobbin tension correct with the thick thread.
Using old Dacron is a good idea I have done repairs to a sail that I had cut down so I had spare cloth from cutting it down. It's a good idea to stagger the layers too if the patch goes on both sides and some people even cut waves into the edge too so it doesn't just rip straight along the edge.
Please definitely keep reporting on your adventures. I miss your posts on SSB and I enjoy your sailing adventures. Also next time your are in Switzerland, let me know. I now have a dry place close to the Biel lake, so it won't take 4.5h of assembly to get sailing!
Another great video. I think we probably all wait quite anxiously for your videos to come out. I have just bought my first Keeler and I'm greatly inspired and motivated by you and your videos.
@@1968lr that looks like a good one! I have just read that one of those sailed itself to australia after being abandoned off kaipara, clearly seaworthy!!! Especially since it survived an entire year drifting across the tasman with the hatch open. There must have been many storms!!!
@@1968lr my most important rule is that the next trip shouldnt be more than double the previous one. So after a trip from coromandel to mangonui (about 48 hours) then i did great barrier, down and around white island, then up to bay of islands. That was 4 days, but i was only a days sail away from a safe anchorage that whole trip. Then i was ready to sail to wellington. This was in my previous boat, a raven 26. Also, winter sailing up north is good practice for summer sailing at 40S.
More Please ! & Thanks ! Are you Tempted by the coming SW winds ? Have you read Capt Voss on the "Tilicum" [sp could be off ! ] He put on Sumner Bar crossing "Public Specticles" ! about 1905 .
@@dominictarrsailing I'll let my mate Rob Metz know you're coming. He's bought a block for a permaculture community on the hill up behind Takaka. Prolly be able to supply you with lots of dried fruits and pickled vege, biltong etc fer yer continued Voyage. You gonna take the Tasman shortcut North from there I assume, rather than the long haul around east cape?
@@dominictarrsailing have you done any experiments with sea anchors like Capt Voss? I read that he came over many of the NZ Bars by using a sea anchor and I was always wondering if that is still a viable method.
@@dominictarrsailing I sailed both junior cherub and a small 13 ft catamaran. They belonged to my highschool. Also my own A class cat later when I bought that myself. Sailed from the Christchurch Yacht club. This would be back in early 70s.
I’m here for the proa sailing 😆 but awesome watching you do some epic ocean sailing. I’m also looking out for you if you make it back to Northland (I think I saw you sailing into opua a year or two ago?) because I’m mad keen to come for a spin on the proa. I’ll take you out fishing 😁
Yes i was in opua in feburary and also december 2022. In nelson right now but will be up that way again fairly soon, thats the plan anyway. You are certainly welcome to come for a proa sail!
Thanks for your videos. I absolutely love your no frills ingenuity...in true Wharram fashion. Im currently finishing up my Tiki 21 build and am starting to post some videos on youtube if youd like to follow back. Youve inspired me to keep pushing and finish this project and maybe build a proa next. Keep it up!
Done! I have been daydreaming about a smaller outrigger. Mainly for paddling... about 3.4m long, which would mean i could put it inside the other cabin. That would also fit across the deck of a tiki 21. I keep my proa on deck packed down under the tillers, when im sailing a long way
@@dominictarrsailing Thanks Dominic. Yeah that sounds pretty perfect. That's what I was thinking, something I could throw on the tiki as sort of a tender, or for day sailing/paddling. I better finish one boat before starting another though.
Good sailing, your ama spends more time in the air then on the water.... Do you really need it? ha ha ha.... Oh, Keep Shunting, By the way... Balkan Shipards
Hi from the US Atlantic coast! Your proa is awesome, I would so love to try sailing one. That’s what made me start watching, but I love your catamaran, too and just your style of minimal fossil fuel cruising. I’m most drawn to sail power only with paddle or oar auxiliary. Love how you always get up on a hill to get perspective.
@@Moleasses102 there is a proa sailnng and construction facebook group. You might be able to find someone nearish you who can take you sailing? From the top of the hill you can see how the land effects the wind and the waves - something no map shows!
