Sailing to Tahiti the Wrong Way... from New Zealand (Sail Surf ROAM)

[@arizonaDreaming0007]

Really enjoying the slower tempo, Great narrative and video!

[@deemacvee1]

Love your channel. Love what you do. This video is understated and brilliant. What a passage ! ROAM performs so well and you built her!!! Love the boom (wish I had one like that).

[@SailSurfROAM]

Thanks David. Let us know if you are ever keen to build a boom like ours. We can help out there

[@GaryTakacs]

Loved Ep 23! Congratulations on your longest passage to date! Looking forward to more episodes!

[@stevecrombie5357]

Good to see you out and about again. Can't wait for more videos. As always, thanks for sharing yourselves with us.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to write to us Steve!!!

[@cyprusdaedalus]

Love the new format and being able to get a much better feel for your personalities and the actual day to day situations (Weather, Speed, etc) you're sharing with us. Way more interesting and involving! I can't tell you how impressed I am that you built your own Spirited cat. Would love to hear more technical tidbits thrown in on why you made certain design/equipment choices for your boat. Currently considering a Schionning Arrow 1500 or Spirited 48.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Nice one Cyprus!! Cheers for the message. If you wanted to know anything else about the boat or build questions etc feel free to drop me an email at [e-mail] I have been doing quite few calls lately with people looking to take on a build project like ours! Mick

[@Suprdave123]

Best sailing vids on YT. That 48 Footer looks perfect...

[@SailSurfROAM]

Too kind SuprDave!!!

[@ZoneTelevision]

First 🌎 🌬 ⛵️ ⛵️ Great to see married couples working together so well as a team. I love how you cover all the particulars of what the wind is doing, sails etc.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Plenty more technical vids and our lessons learnt to come. Just time to make them......

[@rustie4242]

G'day Team Roam, great to see some more of your travels. It must be an amazing feeling sailing the ocean and making landfall in a boat fabricated with your own hands, it is a wonderful achievement . With trimming the assy you could try a tweeker about amidships to pull the sheet down a bit, this can change the shape a little and help stabilise it. as a rule of thumb we use a tweeker when sailing broad and when we are shy it become redundant as the clew comes further aft. So it's worth playing around with it to see what works best on Roam. cheers Russell and Malene.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Hey Russell and Malene, Hope the hot weather is not making it too itchy in the shed!!! Your time is coming fast for making land falls on your hand built boat!!!! Cheers for the tweaker tip. Ill let you know how I go next time I have a play with it. So far I have set one up only once when we cross hauled the tack over to the windward bow as a test. Need some outriggers like the VOR65's!!! Mick

[@SailSurfROAM]

P.S. did you ever sail a 3 Peaks against Deguello? They posted just above and have a BWR boom as well!

[@rustie4242]

Yes, I think the last time we did the 3 Peaks we raced against Deguello, Big Wave Rider and Storm Bay, it was a tuff race....

[@brainhuge]

Fantastic.

[@bluewaterdreamin5034]

Great episode guys. It still seems strange seeing my home port in videos like this one, even the boat in Opua using our mooring in the background when you left, 'New Zealand Maid'.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Nice one. We will keep an eye out for the Maid this summer! Just about ready for sail back from Tonga now, Mick

[@bluewaterdreamin5034]

Keep an eye out for me on the same mooring that NZ Maid was on. We are launching in a week, after my father having spent 27 years building our boat, Kauai Uhiwai. Unfortunately Dad passed away in February last year, so did not get the chance to sail her. Long story to share in person. Catch you in Opua sometime. Cheers. Wade.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Mate would love to hear your story. So sorry about your Dad. See you in Opua in a couple of weeks!

[@bendixon2898]

Goodonyah guys. I can see Schionning being excited about your vlogs. Missed the chance to build one when in Launceston thanks to marriage issues. Very happy for you fellow Taswegians.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Cheers Ben hope you still get the chance to get some sailing in!

[@MrSharkphoto]

Glad to see you back on the water. Now let's find some surf!

[@SailSurfROAM]

Not sure we are aloud to share the Polynesian waves,....

[@MrSharkphoto]

Never disclose the location but it would be nice to see some surfing

[@p.t.anderson1593]

Another awesome video guys! Thanks for sharing!

[@aaron230185]

Great video guys, love your work.

[@zzzxxzzz4797]

Thanks for sharing 😎

[@tigersharkzh]

Tapping on your hull is more likely to attract the dolphins. Sound travels better through water and that's where they're listening.

[@SailSurfROAM]

sometimes they seem to like it and some times if we tap or drum on the hull they bolt. Guess everyone has different tastes in music??

[@Viendopiedra5029]

Awesome as always, good on ya

[@malcolmdelamere5626]

Another great/safe passage under your caps...well done to all

[@timlong8987]

Nicely polished guys.

[@SailSurfROAM]

All credit to Bobby for that!

[@californiakayaker]

Glad to find you guys, looking forward to the experience. Wonder what would happen if you could find audio from some dolphins which would attract other dolphins, underwater microphone recorded, then playing back on the underwater speaker all sailors have, lol Incidentally, you make it look so easy ....

[@SailSurfROAM]

would be interesting thats for sure. I'm sure researchers have done it. We were tossing around a whale deterrent along those lines as its quite common for yachts to hit whales when sailing doing alot of damage to both parties...

[@californiakayaker]

I saw a boat nearly do that. Chuffs.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Well done you guys - I really loved this video - not an easy passage and you did it well :)

[@SailSurfROAM]

Thanks Brent!! Enjoy your Aus summer!

[@chrisjarvis8146]

Awesome episode, super chill production and tunes 🤙 Cheers from SV Breezy 🌬⛵️🌏

[@SailSurfROAM]

Cheer Breezy, Mick

[@terrygriffiths8481]

Yeah, great to see you back out sailing. Re your question about the kite - a pole with just a bit of downhaul wouldn't have helped stop the wave roll knocking the wind out of it?

[@SailSurfROAM]

Hey Terry yeah a pole would likey allow the tack to float independent of the boat a bit and soften it all but we dont carry one. Would need to be about 8m long so would be a monster.. Roam can be pretty twitchy when there is a residual slop and no wind to power it up and keep the leward hull pressed a bit. Cheers Mick

[@benfromn.z6430]

Wicked edit Bobby! It was about time Roam put a video out, we were all getting withdrawal symptoms, and love the shrek movie quote Mick! Yeow!

[@SailSurfROAM]

Bobby has skills. If you like his edits he has a bunch at kzbin.info

[@seailive]

nice to see some confident seamanship on youtube not much of that around, but then you are New Zealanders, cheers.

[@SailSurfROAM]

haha their fighting words mate!! We are from Tasmania, Australia. But we will take the compliment, cheers Mick

[@geoffthefarmer]

Enjoyed your sailing. Hope you invite us back soon to see more.

[@SailSurfROAM]

We will try Geoff. Trying to find the time to enjoy every moment of our travels and get some work in too doesn't leave much time for computers but its still worth putting our travels online when we find the time. Cheers Mick

[@SailingTaranto]

Hey if you want to attract dolphins, I've always found reggae music, really loud, never fails ;-) Thanks for sharing.

[@SailSurfROAM]

They must only like good vibes?

[@SailingTaranto]

Sail Surf ROAM 100%, they can feel those vibes through the hull ;-)

[@user-tm4ge8jf7e]

Love the TRX work out! keep it up.

[@SailSurfROAM]

They are perfect! We love them. Ours are from Crank Fitness.

[@svdeguello2884]

Nice work ROAM, we took on the same passage in a like minded craft 2 years ago, Nelson NZ to Raivavae FP. Lots of upwind work. I'm sure you had a fun season in FP, hope to see you on the water. p.s. Love your boat!

[@SailSurfROAM]

Deguello the ex Tassie Crowther wit an Awesome boom?? Pleased to e meet you! Where is Deguello now? Regards Mick

[@SailSurfROAM]

P.S. Rustie who commented just below has just started his BWR boom as well!!

[@svdeguello2884]

Yeah same Deguello, we are in San Francisco for a couple years working, then back out cruising the pacific.

[@svdeguello2884]

BWR - Guessing, Bruce Arms - Big Wave Rider? Anyway, great boom, so easy to drop the main into. ROAM looks the same design.

[@goldwing987]

Awesome video

[@sailandfish]

what kind of BBQ do you have? Looks awesome!

[@SailSurfROAM]

Its a 3 burner Galleymate.

[@superwag634]

Thats some fast sailing. How many days nz to french polynesia? You havent gone to Tahiti yet?

[@SailSurfROAM]

11D 14hr on the water from Opua to Tubuai. Average SOG dropped from under 8 knots to 7.9 on the last night. We have the sail quiver to keep us moving at good averages in strong and light air now. Tahiti was our aim for the season and we ended up near 4 months there. Currently in Tonga on the way back to NZ for summer. Mick :)

[@superwag634]

fantastic. ive been to those places too. Sailed around Bora Bora which is my favourite island and also Tonga Vavau. Watch those reefs around there. It must be time to get out of there very soon as its almost cyclone season starting. Good luck with the passage to NZ. It can get a bit crazy near top of NZ with the westerly winds.

[@SailSurfROAM]

Yeah we will hit the road soon. Already a month into the season... Coming from Tasmania we are pretty used to reading the weather South of 30 and 40 degrees but not planning on learning the hard way of how to read the forecasts for the tropics in summer... Cheers

[@flyingfalafel7748]

How was BOb face at the start of the passage? not as good as Mick's (cheeky bugger ) Thanks for sharing the passage guys. Gee i love Roam :)

[@SailSurfROAM]

Haha Bobby is a pretty animated dude. I dont think he was too scared? Thanks so much Raphael, Regards Mick

[@deeannec2000]

You serenaded a pair of great danes if that makes a difference... They tried to jump through the computer.

[@SailSurfROAM]

No way! Hope no damage done!!!! Thanks for letting us know thats crazy haha

[@deeannec2000]

Sail Surf ROAM nothing more than a few nose prints fortunately

[@p.t.anderson1593]

Second!

[@llewellyntoth5505]

11:26- ghost eyes in the window

[@SailSurfROAM]

haha spooky, actually its car headlights onshore I think and we are rocking and rolling a bit in the anchorage in Tubuai

[@sailingsomewhere7280]

Could go a rumbo 🍌🥞 brekky right now. Thanks!!

[@SailSurfROAM]

Thats the way Tryst.. something about "......rum before lunch makes your a pirate not an alcoholic" haha Mick