"Westcoast Rippers: Epic 2024 Bar Crossings"

[@pauanui1]

Tanea gets my number 1 vote, straight as an arrow, tough looking little boat obviously has an experienced skipper.

[@samhunt9380]

Look forward to the videos and can't wait for the 2025 crop. Appreciate you sharing. Hope its a good New Year for you and all the crews.

[@westcoastrippers9862]

Cheers mate, hope you have a great 2025 too!😀

[@TyWerley]

Prayers to the men who were lost this year 🙏

[@ehehbwucee]

That Ocean Discovery is a beast. Makes it look easy. Good example of a vessel built to purpose. Skippers using the Greymouth entrance have large gonads. Imagine a few city slickers trying to keep their lunch around there. Keep up the good videos....just normal for locals I know.

[@westcoastrippers9862]

The skippers definitely have balls, some pretty gnarly crossings.

[@henktulp4400]

You mean ‘Ocean Odyssey’??

[@Antipodean33]

Imagine having to face this to go to your job in the morning and also face it coming home. I hate peak hour traffic but it's gotta be easier and less scary than this

[@poppetrurazvan3900]

Hi. Bow mounted propellers pods. Thanks for the moovie. Or bow and stern syncronized propeller pods.😊❤

[@blueocean2510]

Bow thrusters?

[@davidwilliams392]

Worked with Allan Rooney for 4 years, best skipper and safe, caught alot of fish❤

[@westcoastrippers9862]

He’s a good man.👍

[@davidwilliams392]

I wish everyone a safe 2025 at sea

[@harrybaker-p1i]

i have been to greymouth x2 to see this and both times it has been a millpond😮‍💨😮‍💨-loved the video thks

[@westcoastrippers9862]

Bring your fishing rod or your camera You'll definitely catch something😁

[@TonyRule]

1:23 I thought it was all over for him, once he started going broadside.

[@westcoastrippers9862]

I had trouble filming him, he did well to keep it straight. He is a well experienced captain, This bar can catch you out any time.

[@TonyRule]

@@westcoastrippers9862 I've only been there once myself, back in '01 around Christmas, but it was pretty calm that day. My local is the Manukau but there are channels to the north and south - it only gets a bit hairy for a short distance.

[@westcoastrippers9862]

@@TonyRule There’s an opportunity for you. 😀 maybe will see you back this way someday.

[@henktulp4400]

Very nice to watch!!! But it takes guts to be a fisherman for shure….

[@westcoastrippers9862]

Does it take guts or are they half mad?🤪🤪🤪

[@davidwilliams392]

Tanea rules

[@westcoastrippers9862]

It’s up for sale I think💵👍

[@BoatsCaught]

@Antipodean33 Haha, I'd take peak hour traffic over this any day! These skippers deserve a medal for facing those conditions every day

[@xxskippernate409xx6]

Thats so dangerous, I hope nobody does that at night when nobody is watching.

[@westcoastrippers9862]

They regularly cross the bar in the night - some of the fisherman talk about the scariest crossings are at night.

[@jeffsutt]

Why?

[@kosta4572]

This is why there is a pay gap

[@westcoastrippers9862]

Two right

[@Fwdking]

The washing machine comes to mind . Luckily, it's not a front loader as well. 👍🇭🇲🦘