Nothing compares to an Adventure by design. Up and go when it feels right! Thanks for the Part 1... I'll be looking forward to Part 2. I'm about to launch a small plywood cat I've been rebuilding and am considering a 3 week trip in sheltered waters. Always nice to see how you endure the slower times and prepare for the immanent action later.
I'm newish to sailing and I hope you know how helpful and informative your channel is. Your resourcefulness and ingenuity is also very inspirational. I hope your channel and adventures continue for a long time and wish you fair winds and good health.
@@dr10501 I've looked into it! it's really really strict about this myrtle rust thing, you gotta disinfect everything you take ashore with you, and also you must book them to come around a dog and inspect your boat for rats. The rat inspection must be booked 2 weeks in advance and you must leave within 24 hours!!! so you can't actually pick a weather window properly! also you have to pay an hourly rate for the doc personal to escort you around the island (week days only). Though maybe you could just turn up with a case of whisky to trade for the famous oranges? I'm still considering just going, anchoring out, not going ashore, swim and look at some fish etc then come back.
Wow that makes it sound like the voyage to the Kermadecs would be the easy part almost. Almost 90 years since Johnny Wray sailed to the Kermadecs and ate the famous oranges from Sunday Island I bet he wouldn't have had the same level of red tape red tape and bureaucracy that we have these days.@@dominictarrsailing
@@dr10501 also andrew fagan went in swirly world in the 90s (i read his book, which is how i learnt about johnny wray) and he could badically just turn up so its pretty recent
Hello Dominic. It's Renay. I met you at the bus stop in Opua heading south. You were going to the museum in Auckland. Glad to see you sailing. All the best for your travels.
yes I have thought about that quite a bit actually! it seems like it should be a good idea, strange that I havn't heard of others doing it? I found this though: classicsailor.com/2018/11/setting-a-square-sail-on-a-yacht/ probably doesn't have spinnaker type problems! might have to try this on the next leg of the trip
also putting the yard on this old drifter made me think of having a massive lug sail for light air, out of spinnaker cloth, but with an angled yard at the top. raise it on the spinnaker halyard, outside of everything (no other sails up) I think it would work pretty well downwind and maybe even a close reach. and you'd have a really MASSIVE light wind sail area
One of my favorite things about this boat is having good performance in light air. You can make good progress in great comfort when the weather is at it's best!
Never heard about the apples touching thing. I'm gonna have to test that now. In Denmark we always keep them outside, up against an inhabited brick house, in the shade, in wooden crates where every other wooden board is missing to allow air through and then with metal netting around and raised off the ground to prevent rodents from entering. The open-to-the-air crates are to allow the gas to escape and the location and climate keeps them above freezing (hopefully) but still fairly cold. They last for months like this even though they are all touching. I'd assume that letting the gas escape rather than build up in an enclosed space would be more important than whether they're touching but the next time I buy apples I'll keep them at room temperature in two locations with half of them touching and half of them not. I suppose I should try this in an enclosed and unenclosed space as well.
Ah yes i heard about the under the house style, but i was told about a version packed in straw with no apples touching. On my last really big trip (which ended up coinciding with pandemic lockdown) i had recieved a large haul of home grown apples and pacjed them like this, one a day. Hmm ill have to see if i logged when they ran out. But what i do remember is apart from one or two bad apples they where good till the end!
Cool Stuff, nice rig experimenting... Yea, on a following wind dump the main, boat goes down wind very nicely, like a train on rails... well done! Keep jibing and shunting....
This is definitely a gybing boat. Fair weather tacker. Unfortunately the bermudian rig has a dangerous, overpowered gybe... not right for this boat needs something else... I like this boat on a beam or close reach in light conditions, but downwind in heavy conditions is just as smooth! (and it's surprising how little sail you need when the wind picks up, as I learnt more recently)
@@dominictarrsailing Junk sails gybe very smooth, since their luff is ahead of the mast, it softens the punch big time... When your main is done, you could consider replacing it with a Chinese Lug, you keep your stayed mast and jibs. You could make it yourself... I do wonder if the jibs leech will hit the mains luff? and I do wonder if it would be a problem.... Anyway, Junks gybe like nothing else.... food for thought.... Keep going bro
@@BalkanShipyards yes I have considered that, though I don't like the jibs either. Not terrible to gybe but but with the high cut clew and far away fairleads they flog terribly! much worse than on my monohull. Also annoying to sail downwind, with the main blanketing them. Actually, I'll tell you what I'm thinking! I got this book about indonesian Jukung - It's got a crabclaw, but it's not tacking. You gotta gybe it. but it's a safe controlled gybe - there is no rigging infront of the mast so you can dump the sail and it just swings around, so you can gybe SLOWLY. and you also also control sail balance by rocking the sail forward! will do some experiments on a smaller boat first though! with wharrams hulls never tack very well anyway, you gotta tack with room left in case you need to gybe or tack with the engine (which is not my style!)
Great to see you on a real adventure. Do you carry a survival suit. I have an old North Sea oil industry type. (Guy Cotton, similar to that used by that sailor who clung to his upturned ocean racer, in the southern ocean, for a couple of days. Very cheap, but maybe not comfy to wear out of an emergency. You could use a second hand divers dry suit. Probably more available in your part of the world.
hmm yes I have been considering a dry suit for the proa, good point it would be useful on the pahi if things got really bad. the limiting factor on the proa is getting cold and wet so a dry suit would make a big difference. I don't really like the idea of safety equipment that you don't use until it's an emergency, because how do you know it really works? stuff that gets used regularily you have a relationship with and can trust it.
@@dominictarrsailing did a lot of windsurfing in my youth. Mainly a winter sport…for the best wind n waves. So would be wearing a neoprene dry / wet suit most of the day. Not uncomfortable. I still have it, so it lives onboard. When I finally get the boat fixed, will consider wearing it at night especially if windy and well offshore.
@@markthomasson5077 I've tried wearing wet suits, when not in the water before, and found I got very cold. I guess on a windsurfer you are being very active though and that will warm you up. on my longest proa sail I was getting quite cold then the wind picked up and I had to work a lot harder and that warmed me up. A dry suit would be quite different though I think!
With your drifter. I would tack to thewindward bow, when on a straight downwind course. But if it will work on a close reach, try tacking to the lee bow. ( consider where leading edge flaps are on planes). Of course with a bowsprit on each hull, even better. Like your yard, sort of cross between a spinaker and a topsail. Like the other comment. Perhaps better, more manageable, if you cut off the top triangle, and used a horizontal yard.
for the symmetric spinnaker I have two tacklines to either bow, and with the drifter I tie them both to the same tack, and I do pull it to windward when sailing down. although the symmetric spinnaker is much better for a dead downwind course, because it's straightforward to gybe. I have to try and see just how high I can point with it. Have not had it out again since that day!
