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Sailing Alone 400NM In The Tasman Sea and Across Cook Strait To The South Island of New Zealand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2024
- Sailing Alone Series : SOLO TO THE SOUNDS
Hello Friends,
Welcome to another long format passage film. On this video I haul in in the dark of night at Spirits Bay in the Far North of New Zealand's North Island and sail down the west coast to New Plymouth before crossing the notorious Cook Strait to D'Urville Island.
This passage was a great shake down sail to prepare me for upcoming Solo Tasman Crossing.
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For all the sailing blogs I’ve watched, this is passage was the one that best shared what it was like to be in strong winds and an agitated sea state… wow. And yet, you were calm and focused on what needed to be done. Truly a powerful experience to share! Thanks!
Thanks 🙏🏻
Planning on sailing Bay of Islands to Dunedin. Which coast is a big decision. Why did you choose west rather than east?
He gave an explanation of his choice in previous video
Great video thanks for not ruining it with bad music. Good narrative very interesting and enjoyable sailing
James, I love these long films. Thanks, for all the hours of entertainment and distraction.
Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏🏻
Ah. The mighty Cook Straight. Hell in high water.
That strait kicked my ass 3 different times 😂
Can't wait to hear all the juicy details@@SailorJames
You're so awesome James!! @@SailorJames
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Yep.
I've been and seen those 'no back' waves that stand up like a point.
Dad called them 'helliptical' waves..
they are usually at the points of land that jut out, like a peninsula..
or a crop of rocks off the coast.
I reward myself with these stunning videos after a long day moored to a desk. Your rough passages get me through my own (if only I could face the big seas with such grace, skill, and good humor). Thank you, James!
This type of “Type 2” fun is waiting for you too once you are able to slip the lines from the desk 😂
I absolutely love your sailing adventures. I am a 67 year old Aussie. I bought a 32ft steel hulled Roberts Spray schooner rigged yacht and absolutely loved living aboard her. I spent a fortune upgrading her to sail her from Darwin to the Philippines solo during covid. It would have been my very first sail of her, a very daunting task. Unfortunately I lost confidence and sold her and flew to the philippines, and I deeply regret parting with her. I will move heaven and earth to buy another yach and fulfil my dream of living the solo sailing life. You inspire me. God bless your adventures
Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos, great sailing , calm, organised, showing what real sailing is about.
Thanks so much
This is the only sailing channel that doesn't make me dizzy. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Much appreciated.
This video was especially immersive with the clips showing the "mundane" routines like making coffee, reading, etc. Great atmospheric, long-form content. I like it! Would like to see more like this!
Man that stretch can get hectic. Enjoy the south Island, it's amazing
Yeah Cook Strait kicked my ass 3 different times
Great episode James...have done that passage and it's not to be sneezed at...exciting aye!
The dolphins riding the bow pressure was so cool!!
That one didn't look like fun and downright spooky when you were trying to find the mooring balls at night. Well done, and I hope you got some well deserved rest at the end of it.
Yeah I drove around for an hour, totally impossible and spooky for sure
A real piece when shorthanded@@SailorJames
Happy you guys made it out safety and without losing the boat . I’m extremely grateful that you shared your experience with such transparency and I’m sure all the sailors watching including myself have learned something from it.
Fair winds and following seas
It was a wild and hairy ride for sure , one I hope to never relive
Expertly navigating the seas once again. Thanks for taking us with you. What a wild ride!!
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And that's a nice day crossing Cook Strait. Cheers for MS Matakana.
Outstanding photography may made me feel like i'm in the boat with you. Good job.
Wonderful videography and narration as always James. You make it look so easy, but as a sailor myself I know that it is far from being so. You’re at the top of your game buddy.
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Loved this video. Love the sailing. Love the sounds of the wind and waves. Loved hearing about your thinking process of doing the sail. Looking forward to seeing how your girl fits into everything. Fair winds.
Thanks 🙏🏻 glad you enjoyed it
Good times 🎉 boat is looking dialed in
truly a joy to watch and listen - a human being really really real and connected ... so appreciated - bless you and thank you :)
BEAUTIFUL beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Thankyou Captain James
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Amazing long video ! Thank you !
What a ride! Majestic! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷.
Hello James just like to tell you that me and my wife Kelly love your show. Keep up the good work brother. 😊
Thank you for this kind message 🙏🏻 I appreciate it 🙏🏻
James, you are the definition of determination. Thank to you and a handful of others sailors, I’m following my dream too. I will be splashing next month.
Congratulations! Hold Fast!
Your not afraid to sail your boat!
I was born and raised in the Philippines with a fisherman father and mom selling what ever he catches. I miss the sea, the smell, the waves, everything. I wish I can do it again.
You are amazing what a wonderful life the moon was the perfect ending to an incredible video❤
Mr james .you are a great sailor.god bless you .e love you and your courage
Cheers another epic chapter in triteia’s sailing journey!
Thanks for sharing your adventures!!! Much appreciated!
Hi James! 👋🏽
Blessings to you on the open sea! 🌊🌊🌊🐟***✨
I love watching you sail with your calm demeanor, your great! 😊
Fabulous footage James. Thanks for taking us there. Wonderful escapism 🤘🤘
Enjoyed that lots. Thankyou.
It's always great to see you sailing! That scene with the dolphins was magical, what a memory.
Dude, you're awesome. Thank you for this incredible content.
love the long form videos, amazing stuff bro
Such a great video, loved this one
Fantastic passage video James!
Thx for sharing your trip with your boat. I really enjoy it. I plan to do it to, hey we got just one life to live. What an adventure! By the way you have all to be a sealler, the knowledge, the boat, the look and the boat.
Love this being a Kiwi revisiting places i have not been to for many years
Great passage in challenging conditions. Well earned rest.
I learned to sail at New Plymouth. The Tasman sea can get very tricky. The climb up Paratutu is worth the trek up. Safe sailing.
Wonderful trip!❤
Your videos are always delightful! It is astonishing how well you handle everything the sea throws at you, quite literally at times. And the fact that pods of dolphins hang out with you as often as they do is extremely endearing. Well done, you! 🙌🐬⛵
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Hi James,
I like your conversations. Very rough seas, indeed. Have a nice journey! 🐬🐬
What a trip. Thanks for sharing a most enjoyable passage..including Cook Strait! It’s neat to see you going about reefing, adjusting lines etc….real stuff.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Well done James. Good effort. Looking forward to the cook straight crossing. keep up the good work. SV Kiwi Lady Opua Bay of islands New Zealand 👍🏿
Glad you have made it to Durville one of my favorite places. Enjoy all the fat Blue Cod.
D’Urville was the crown jewel of the sounds
Your intro music is my personal therapy setting the mood for the rest of the day. :)
Thank you again for everything you show to us.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Very enjoyable
Hi James. THANK YOU for all your videos man, experiences and perceptions you share. No bullshit just sailing .. like Erik Andreaa. I also follow his journeys with interest. Good wind and cross fingers to you sailor.
Great video, James - an epic passage, well done and good job sharing. Loved it, as usual! You go along so well alone, but I'm eagerly looking forward to the future vids with Rhonda.
Her episodes start March 29th!
I agree with zenunla... Your best passage video to date... Cook straight does sort the men from the boys alright...
Great video James... always inspired by your seafaring ways :) Thanks for the vids!
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Fantastic video. 🤙🖖✌️
Great videography and story telling. I really felt like you took us along for the adventure. Thanks for sharing.
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Great journey!
Man when those dolphins ride with you, made me cry with joy, theyre checking you out 😂, you are on the same journey for that moment. Incredible, heres to you James , what a journey🎉
This was amazing, thanks for sharing and I hope this became another video with more than a million views! Regards from Argentina.
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Great sailing Cap’n!
Glad to see you & the boat hanging in.Watching the night sequence,I feel like a horse with blinkers...very scary.
You are extremely awesome! Love your channel.
Very competent sailing.
Those dolphins were bringing you in. That was epic. Safe travels, homie!
Wow... you really have something good going on here James. So calming and peaceful especially the intro music. Not sure what you did prior to all this sailing, but whatever it was, I am sure that you made the right decision to change it up and go sailing. No way that this could ever be the wrong thing.
I was an Arthandler working for the biggest galleries, museums and celebrities in the world installing priceless works of art. The life I live now is far more rewarding that’s for sure.
@@SailorJames ....good decision for sure. Art is nice but seeing the world is next level.
That was a cool looking hike up that cliff, certainly pay attention on the way down eh, what a view ✌️
Super sketchy coming down for sure
Rattle control & my pockets full of water > Thats real sailing . Well done on the trip down the west coast , Can get worse .
Great stuff, James. Plotting your pit stops on google maps...keep being brilliant!
I remember a year ago when you limped into NZ without a motor and had to be towed into dock, narly times indeed !!!
I picked up the different sound from your position and the wind and white caps in the distance! Thank you. Safe sailing!
Its so cool watching you sail around all the places I sailed around as a kid in NZ James. I did wonder what you were on about when you implied you were in Cook Strait just after rounding Cape Egmont.. I was like, nah, he'll find Cook Strait eventually. And you did hehe.. Good work getting into D'Urville in the dark. Love your content.
Yeah it kicked my ass 3 different times before leaving NZ
Thanks for showing that at the Cape
Nice work setting up those shots going up that rock
It was such a wild trail it was the only way I knew how to capture it !
Hello Bro, I always wondered have you ever seen anything strange while sailing in those big oceans. Its only you and a wide body of water. I can only imagine things you might have questioned (strange lights etc.) 💯💯
Nope 👍🏻
Congratulations…not many overseas yachts choose to come down the west coast….into my home town too…New Plymouth….Looks like our magnificent mountain did not show its face when you went up parititu rock………Well done ..Great video
I only got a chance to see Taranaki from a distance. At the end of my cruise of the Marlborough Sounds on a very clear day while transiting Stephens Pass I could see the great mountain clearly in the distance all the way from D’Urville Island
I lol at the scenes where one minute you were laughing and marveling at the big waves then cut to next scene when your hair was all over and you were soaked by said waves. 😅
James that was an excellent episode! I have enjoyed it a lot! I have kind of figured out how you have set up your boom preventer lines. Maybe you can explain it in a future episode? Stay safe
I have explained it in the past, I think I explain it on this video : Details of a Sea Voyage; Sailor James Discusses Various Topics While On An Ocean Passage
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@@SailorJames Super. Thanks James.
I have done a few sea miles, both the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Even in the lovely patch south of Stewart Island, but the Tasman, she can be like a surly teenager. Throw in words like petulant and fiery, all in the same afternoon. Mates have sat in the quadrant Cape Egmont, Farewell Spit and Kapiti Island - they sat head to win. The shallow depth and oddball waves created their own weird motion... A wonderful adventure for you.
The waves where unlike anything I have experienced…. Like square waves that smash you like a hammer
I wanna thank you for all the great videos. I love the ocean, but deathly afraid of it. If that makes sense. Maybe someday you can explain all your tattoos & what made you choose them.
You the best martin from Tauranga
You just help yourself to moorings in New Plymouth... they are 100% chain moorings
Thanks!
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😂 You thought NPL was a safe refuge for a yacht! Nice that you had a good stop anyway. Great to see a foreign yachtie cruising my stamping ground. Best vid I've seen of NZ coastal sailing! Thanks man!
It is the only safe harbor.
Your videos are always so amazing, I'm glad I can like and support your content.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Welcome to the Roaring 40's!
True American breakfast coffee ☕ and bagel. ❤
Bro that footage of the gnarly sea at around 45 minutes... RADICAL kid.. Seriously Nat Geo should literally hire you, equip you to the gills so you could take us across the globe and everywhere in between... THOUGH YOU ARE DOING JUST THAT in that Alberg!!!! That boat is impressive, though the Captain makes her shine.
Dude, that last section of the passage was so much more brutal than it shows on the video, much of the hell was in the dark and couldn’t really be filmed. Gnarly passage for sure
great vid thanks James you were lucky with the weather they don't call it the Wild West Coast for nothing you had calm sea for that part of New Zealand ive been in 5 to 6 metre sea down there
It wasn’t luck, I went on a good weather window as any responsible Captain would.
@@SailorJames sure what ever mate you got lucky ask any one that knows that sea you don't
Bro, it’s not luck when you just plan ahead and WAIT for the right weather window
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So "lucked out" is a good thing?
Pretty cool to hear the weka calling out from the land as you were coming into harbour in the dark at the end.
I love these videos and wish I had the courage and resources to just set out and go where the wind takes me! Watching you walk up and down the boat while roped in, have you ever fallen over board where that has saved your life?
No I haven’t fallen overboard. I take great care to stay on the boat
I would like to see a video on how you solo ancher and catch a mooring ball . I think that would be interesting. Especially for us soon to be solo sailors..
There is too much water for me, but your videos are a good vibes
Thanks 🙏🏻
Hey James thanks for another awesome episode mate 👍 i really enjoyed watching this one! The Cook Strait fully kicked ya arse!!! It definitely lived up to what it known for thats for sure mate!! 💯 love your raw honest footage about life as a sailor! Thank you. Also what is the difference between a Tac and a Gybe?
Thanks 🙏🏻 a tack is when the wind passes across the bow a Gybe is when the wind crosses the stern
@@SailorJames oh okay Thank you for explaining that mate
Damn ! That is the worst I have ever seen you heel over. It Looked like a battle & you showed some serious sailing there ! It was tense on this side of the screen an you Must have been Exhausted !! Tritea is SUCH a Good Sailboat & you, a great Sailor !!!
It was a wild ride for sure ⛵️⛵️⛵️
Awesome sailing vid. That's why I'm here. I love this boat stuff! If I could afford to buy you a new, untattered, American flag I surely would. I know you're representing the rest of us, after all. 😎
You can’t just buy America flags at any store once you leave the USA. I replaced it once I got to Nelson and finally found a store in Auckland that had one.
Copy that . keep up the good work!, please :)@@SailorJames
One of the best sailing videos I have ever seen. Thanks. Stay safe and keep them coming.
Btw, which cameras were you using?
Thanks 🙏🏻 I use a gopro hero 9
I certainly agree my friend, at the end of the day I just want to sit down by myself and chill out. I have only just started to watch James. It’s my go to videos