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

[@shauntoomey3299]

John Barry is living the passion.

[@tedrick4713]

Excellent, a real learning experience. Thank you!

[@Jocke-W]

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

[@drakeParagon]

Ha! Glad you liked it! We're finishing up the deck tour today so stay tuned!

[@nelsonholditch6633]

Great interview, fantastic boat. Thanks very much .

[@drakeParagon]

Thanks nelson! It really is a remarkable boat...glad you enjoyed the episode. We're finished up the deck tour video and that will be going up tomorrow. Cheers ⚓-Monique

[@TheBigWanger]

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

[@drakeParagon]

Definitely a lot of energy and always looking for the next adventure. Glad you're enjoying the series...two more to go! This Sunday and also Wednesday! ⚓-Monique

[@HasbaraBuster]

Awesome boat and incredible skipper :)

[@nobody46820]

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

[@leonsahasrara4396]

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

[@davidhapp1864]

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!!

[@kriswaelput]

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

[@markmahan6768]

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

[@Kathikas1]

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” …

[@wizardmix]

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!

[@knotwerken]

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

[@creatingmemorieswithmike4617]

Thanks for doing this interview Drake.

[@drakeParagon]

Thank you Mike and we're so glad you enjoyed it. It's always such an honour when people take the time to tell us their stories, and documenting them and sharing those stories is something we love to do. Can't wait to share the last two episodes of this series! ⚓-Monique

[@rnunezc.4575]

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

[@emilybh6255]

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.

[@Fragilisticexpiali]

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

[@gkarjala]

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

[@ContrastNY]

This is a great interview series!

[@ZoneTelevision]

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.

[@drakeParagon]

So I am totally not from a racing background at all...ha, we tend to set the sails and go for as long as we're able with very little tweaking. Is the Stiletto 30 much smaller than the average boat people usually race? It must be such an adrenalin rush to be in these races! ⚓-Monique

[@ZoneTelevision]

DrakeParagon Stilettos are open bridge deck (beach style) cats that are collapsible and trailerable. They are still fantastic boats by today’s standards. 30’ are the biggest they ever made. Some have modified them to be a couple feet longer.

[@greggronemeier1256]

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

[@philbox4566]

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

[@stotas2]

Awesome guy 👍

[@drakeParagon]

He really was great...and what stories he had to tell! ⚓-Monique

[@dragonfly8080808]

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.

[@___Tom]

great interview, thanks!

[@sailingcontigo7953]

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

[@drakeParagon]

Smart indeed...he worked very hard and likes to play just as hard. ⚓-Monique

[@anthonyfowler8634]

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

[@sanchezshots]

good interview load to learn

[@nigelha3699]

Brilliant

[@drakeParagon]

Thanks Nigel! ·.¸.·´¯`·.>

[@dagooglenet]

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

[@alansmith2203]

you weren't paying attention Dago....smile. it is a trimaran.

[@bobbob6472]

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

[@edbourgoine5022]

Strangely the one with sails may well have been faster.

[@Colaaah]

@@edbourgoine5022 I highly doubt that! Have you had anything to do with ski boats?

[@edbourgoine5022]

@@Colaaah Nope, not really. The response was admittedly a bit tongue in cheek.

[@R.E.HILL_]

What's the core made of?

[@somerandomman178]

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

[@dyslexiusmaximus]

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

[@alansmith2203]

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

[@markthomasson5077]

If you have to ask….you can’t afford it

[@MrRourk]

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

[@garviere]

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

[@dagooglenet]

They did in the first and second episodes

[@mattlewandowski73]

Interviews are usually focused on the interviewed person. This is in essence a nearly 2 hour documentary broken into something like 5 parts.

[@gregoryatkins630]

Eaton’s Neck!! Woo hoo.

[@RussellParker]

Beware the me monster.

[@shurppa64]

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

[@SpyridonMouroutsos]

:)

[@drakeParagon]

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[@lazarus1313]

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

[@drakeParagon]

Interviewing someone on the fly can be challenging. John enjoyed the interview as did I. Hope you did as well. Fair winds to you.

[@BrunoWiebelt]

unlimited resources ... the hole life

[@seahaul6225]

not my type of person.