Been subscribed to you for years. Patron when I can afford it. Since I've seen Rhonda on the boat the content has a totally different feeling. I love it. It's always a great thing to live your dream and even better to share it.
You two are amazing. Two very independent people who found each other and are now independent together. Can’t wait to see the adventures ahead of you and the way that you work as a team to overcome challenges and love life together. Just when I thought that this channel was perfect, Rhonda comes along and now, it’s more perfect. Easily my favorite sailing channel on CZcams.
It really looks like you two share exactly what my wife and i have and treasure - that feeling of comfortable companionship that transcends all the daily life that swirls around us all. We've been together for almost 40 years, but only a little over half our lives and we can't help but be a bit sad that we didn't find each other sooner. Difficult to get enough, but impossible to have too much of.
That was iconic seeing you sailing down Sydney Harbour. Sydney Opera House - checked off. You can tell u have been offgrid for a while - overstimulated by the first busy place you viaited. 😊
You've picked a great "First mate" James. Capable shipmate, good with the camera, great cook, good sense of humor, and a very warm genuine personality! Cool Sailing "Down Under" James and Rhonda!!
I saw a few sea snakes in Fiji, managed to get a picture of one and it turned out to be one of the top venomous snakes in the world. Probably wasn't the best idea to chase it down with my camera lol. Keep up the good work James, it's been fun following your journey.
Cheers from south Texas! Thoroughly enjoy your videos and seeing you happy and healthy! Your doing it right and bringing lots of people joy! Cheers mate
Yes, I did love the content and glad I subscribed. I have friends all over the Pacific thanks to sailors . Coming from a Port as a child, I saw lots of seafood, caught a lot of it, crabs, shrimp, all of it. I do not see many sailors try to catch Shrimp, and I recommend it very much, it isn't that hard to do in the right places. But, you have to be ready for it, get the right net ect. Your smiles light me up. Thanks. Oh, and I love it when you sailed past the Opera House.
Great videos. You were talking about a rolly night. Not fun I used to have this thing called a flopper stopper, you hang it on the end of the boom. It's a series of cones with a weight but you sit like a catamaran. You probably know about this, but no worries, it's cathartic to write about it. Keep up with the great videos. Thanks
That part of Sydney looks really nice, Blackwattle Bay. Ah spiders, yes, you're in funnel web territory there, and as much as I love spiders I wouldn't want to meet one of those, shudder. I hope all goes well for you in Oz. Happy Sails.
Used to occasionally go in and out of the swinging bridge on our 34ft gaff rig at Blackwattle when it was the main road. It was fun to count how many cars and buses we could delay as the bridge swung out and in.
Gila (Hee-la) Monsters are awesome and crazy when you see them in the wild. Grew up in AZ so very similar wildlife to NM. Crazy that you and Triteia have made it to the other side of the planet. Congrats and looking forward to the next ones!
Lol, love the distinction you make about the way we say, "buoy". I love the way people worried about the dangerous fauna in Australia. I'd hate be to be charged by a brown bear. 🙂If you're near spiders again, get a stick and wave it vertically in front of you as you walk and you'll clear the spiders.
You know better than to walk around in your bare feet in tall grass with your roots!! Keep that sail full and keep living your dream. You are a cat that can. Living free n Texas
It's not the spiders you need to worry about, it's the drop bears 😂 cool video, thank you both, i bet Rhonda is loving it on Tritea, such a wonderful boat 🤘👍
I hear what you're saying about snakes Rhonda. I'm an expat Kiwi and been here 2+ years. I used to dream about snakes. I became a. paramedic and worked in rural area. We also bought a farm. To be honest I have seen so many now, I also have attended multiple Bites over the years. Very few people die. I'm cautious but not paranoid anymore. Funal web spiders on the other hand (found around Sydney)are very scary! Great video guys.
bro this is insane, i have JUST found your channel and you have given me the most out of left field flashbacks. Cobblers bay is next to my old Navy base, those apartment looking things atop that hill and that old jetty is where i used to train, its home to the Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers, i could tell some stories about that place dude, almost none of them good hahaha. what are the odds!!
G'day guy's thanks for another awesome episode from my favourite sailing youtube channel! Barramundi is a good fish to catch and eat if you get a chance you gota give it a go mate! Cheers.
my dad worked in those markets. when i was a child i was going there with him at 3 in the morning to get the best fish for his store brings back memories' awesom markets , Im from the northen beaches but i live on a 27ft boat in Norway now funny how life is , should check that out lions head , and mackeral beach in pittwater think youll like that bro
Fun video! You two look so happy! Rhonda I hope you'll do your Risotto recipe on your channel, if it's something else that's fine too! Stay safe guys! 🩵💙⛵️
Just checked out some of your old vids and had no idea the crazy amount of work you did on the refit!! After watching those my budget for my forever boat has gone up by a factor of ten😅
Yeah, it is certainly not like buying a new car 😂 I have friends who bought a new, factory delivered million dollar catamaran who had critical failures all across the pacific, boats require endless amounts of repairs and upgrades no matter what
As an Australian, I hardly think about spiders. Snakes - you have to take it seriously. Read about a guy who stayed with aborigines decades ago in the NW living a traditional lifestyle. He said they were very wary of snakes so would burn the scrub around their camps. Sharks - yes, I've got an over active imagination so can't help thinking about them when I'm in the water.
The big spiders you will see out and about will be orb weavers in the big webs, or huntsmen which wander around and come inside. Both are pretty harmless. Learn to identify Sydney funnel webs, they live at ground level and don't wander around, so mainly only a concern if you are doing gardening or something. Red backs are just like black widows.
I worked for a zoo for a couple of decades and my most embarrassing moment was being bitten by a gila monster (Heee la ). There is no treatment for their bites, and most of the deaths attributed to them were caused by the quart of whiskey treatment (1800s) if bitten in the past. Some cowboys would get bitten every other Friday night, just to get "treated". I ended up with a swollen index finger and knuckle area for a few days, with thumping pain the whole time. It felt like my finger was slammed with a 25lb sledgehammer, coated with glass shards. Known as the most painful of the reptile bites in the world (I was nailed by a cobra as well). Unless dancing with rattlesnakes for your religion, to die from a venomous bite in the US has odds of about 1:100,000 bites may result in fatality. Hollywood has trained us to just see the extraordinary, sensationalized segments of part truths, and stereotype it just like everything else. Even the bible makes up stuff about snakes to instill more fear than necessary. Love the sailing though. I am jealous.
We had tons of rattlesnakes where I grew and I have had probably 12 very close encounters with them , only saw one Gila monster in the wild, he was in an old tire in a pasture we just looked at him for a while and kept the dogs away and moved on
Hi James and Rhonda, I’m 64 years old always lived in Australia travel a lot overseas to 29 different countries but I’ve never been bitten by a snake or spider like a lot of things. If you respect them they will respect you. You only snake in Australia then I’ll actually chase. You is a king Brown which you hardly ever see, and even then they’ll only charge you if they feel like they’re being cornered or if they feel trapped, you are not their natural food anyway just enjoy yourself. Just be careful when you go up north Queensland the handbags/crocodiles up there will snap at you they get a half a chance , Cliff from Queensland
I know someone who breeds giant Spiders .. look up Brazillian Blue leg tarantulas.. Of all your Mexican perishers from what ive seen the Brown recluse potentially has the nastiest Venom.. Australias a whole different ball park. The Heila monsters venom Is in the back of its mouth ...excruciatingly painful im told .. of the snakes im a sucker for the Great horned Rattle snake.. because of its role in Navaho mythology along with his buddy great horned toad .. actually the spiny ant eating lizard .. the one that bleeds from their eyes as defence mechanism. Rhondas wrong about there being nothing that wants to kill you in NZ ... Try a rugby match with the all Blacks😵. 😬🤣😂 BTW
I grew up playing with horny toads and we constantly dealt with rattlesnakes, scorpions and centipedes and both myself and my brother have been stung by brown recluses
Been subscribed to you for years. Patron when I can afford it. Since I've seen Rhonda on the boat the content has a totally different feeling. I love it. It's always a great thing to live your dream and even better to share it.
You two are amazing. Two very independent people who found each other and are now independent together. Can’t wait to see the adventures ahead of you and the way that you work as a team to overcome challenges and love life together.
Just when I thought that this channel was perfect, Rhonda comes along and now, it’s more perfect. Easily my favorite sailing channel on CZcams.
Sooo happy to see you two together!!
I just love seeing you guys working on the boat and having fun.🎉🦋👍☺💙
It really looks like you two share exactly what my wife and i have and treasure - that feeling of comfortable companionship that transcends all the daily life that swirls around us all. We've been together for almost 40 years, but only a little over half our lives and we can't help but be a bit sad that we didn't find each other sooner. Difficult to get enough, but impossible to have too much of.
Love is a beautiful thing
@@SailorJames Indeed!
THE look , the look you have for each other , great to see how you've done it to integrate the mermaid in the trip . You are beautyfull !
That was iconic seeing you sailing down Sydney Harbour. Sydney Opera House - checked off. You can tell u have been offgrid for a while - overstimulated by the first busy place you viaited. 😊
You've picked a great "First mate" James. Capable shipmate, good with the camera, great cook, good sense of humor, and a very warm genuine personality! Cool Sailing "Down Under" James and Rhonda!!
That risotto looked lovely. One of my favourite comfort foods!
Wishing you both the happiest, wherever you may roam...living the dream
That seafood place was huge! I've always wanted to see Australia. Thanks for showing us around.
It's fun to watch You. Greetings from Poland
Thanks, was just so enjoyable to watch, well done
Hey you guys that fish market was unreal. Another great vid.
So crazy right????
I saw a few sea snakes in Fiji, managed to get a picture of one and it turned out to be one of the top venomous snakes in the world. Probably wasn't the best idea to chase it down with my camera lol. Keep up the good work James, it's been fun following your journey.
Sea snakes are rear fanged and not nearly as problematical as front fanged vipers for instance,
Cheers from south Texas! Thoroughly enjoy your videos and seeing you happy and healthy! Your doing it right and bringing lots of people joy! Cheers mate
Gosh, I need to eat Fish. Now!!! 😎👍🏻
Thanks for taking us to the fish market! (And of course, Sydney Harbor.😁) Way cool episode. 😎🥰😎🥰😎
Go up past Spit Bridge to Bantry Bay. Very peaceful.
Biglove you guys! Thanks for sharing.
Ronda's Grinning face through the Hatch made me Laugh when you Hauled up the anchor 😂, its a Joy to watch you two work as a team .
😂😂😂
Yes, I did love the content and glad I subscribed. I have friends all over the Pacific thanks to sailors . Coming from a Port as a child, I saw lots of seafood, caught a lot of it, crabs, shrimp, all of it. I do not see many sailors try to catch Shrimp, and I recommend it very much, it isn't that hard to do in the right places. But, you have to be ready for it, get the right net ect. Your smiles light me up. Thanks. Oh, and I love it when you sailed past the Opera House.
We do have to look out for the red back katipo and yup whitetail.
Wish you well on your cutest couple journey 😊🙏😁💚
Love you guys, epic content👍😊
Real and honest. Thank you!
So awesome!!
So great to see you in my town!!!
Welcome!!
😀
Great videos. You were talking about a rolly night. Not fun
I used to have this thing called a flopper stopper, you hang it on the end of the boom. It's a series of cones with a weight but you sit like a catamaran. You probably know about this, but no worries, it's cathartic to write about it. Keep up with the great videos. Thanks
Yes I know about them and always used one in California. Mine chafed through in Hawaii and I lost it in 70ft of water
That part of Sydney looks really nice, Blackwattle Bay. Ah spiders, yes, you're in funnel web territory there, and as much as I love spiders I wouldn't want to meet one of those, shudder. I hope all goes well for you in Oz. Happy Sails.
😬😬😬
Used to occasionally go in and out of the swinging bridge on our 34ft gaff rig at Blackwattle when it was the main road. It was fun to count how many cars and buses we could delay as the bridge swung out and in.
😂😂😂
Gila (Hee-la) Monsters are awesome and crazy when you see them in the wild. Grew up in AZ so very similar wildlife to NM. Crazy that you and Triteia have made it to the other side of the planet. Congrats and looking forward to the next ones!
Lol, love the distinction you make about the way we say, "buoy". I love the way people worried about the dangerous fauna in Australia. I'd hate be to be charged by a brown bear. 🙂If you're near spiders again, get a stick and wave it vertically in front of you as you walk and you'll clear the spiders.
You know better than to walk around in your bare feet in tall grass with your roots!! Keep that sail full and keep living your dream. You are a cat that can. Living free n Texas
Yes I do but she grew up someplace where nothing tries to kill you
Hi James...when in Sydney I often anchor in blackwattle Bay near the Sydney Fish markets..and my daughters place
This is wild, from Cali to the opera house in Sydney. I bet that was an amazing feeling
A truly remarkable feeling!!!
Just found this channel I live near the Spit Bridge probably 1,4nm from cobblers Shame you didnt go up river to a beautiful place called Bantry Bay
It's not the spiders you need to worry about, it's the drop bears 😂 cool video, thank you both, i bet Rhonda is loving it on Tritea, such a wonderful boat 🤘👍
We wear helmets for all the drop bears 😂
@@SailorJames 😂😂😂
I hear what you're saying about snakes Rhonda. I'm an expat Kiwi and been here 2+ years. I used to dream about snakes. I became a. paramedic and worked in rural area. We also bought a farm. To be honest I have seen so many now, I also have attended multiple Bites over the years. Very few people die. I'm cautious but not paranoid anymore. Funal web spiders on the other hand (found around Sydney)are very scary! Great video guys.
Yeah I was very cautious about the funnel web spiders 😬
Fun video ✌️
bro this is insane, i have JUST found your channel and you have given me the most out of left field flashbacks. Cobblers bay is next to my old Navy base, those apartment looking things atop that hill and that old jetty is where i used to train, its home to the Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers, i could tell some stories about that place dude, almost none of them good hahaha. what are the odds!!
G'day guy's thanks for another awesome episode from my favourite sailing youtube channel! Barramundi is a good fish to catch and eat if you get a chance you gota give it a go mate! Cheers.
I just had some in fish tacos last night, delicious!
my dad worked in those markets. when i was a child i was going there with him at 3 in the morning to get the best fish for his store brings back memories' awesom markets , Im from the northen beaches but i live on a 27ft boat in Norway now funny how life is , should check that out lions head , and mackeral beach in pittwater think youll like that bro
Fun video! You two look so happy! Rhonda I hope you'll do your Risotto recipe on your channel, if it's something else that's fine too! Stay safe guys! 🩵💙⛵️
Hi James and rhonda, I was wondering if you guys ever think about doing any merch? I need triteia t shirts, hoodies and a mug in my life 😂
There is a complete merch shop on my channel page
Just checked out some of your old vids and had no idea the crazy amount of work you did on the refit!! After watching those my budget for my forever boat has gone up by a factor of ten😅
Yeah, it is certainly not like buying a new car 😂 I have friends who bought a new, factory delivered million dollar catamaran who had critical failures all across the pacific, boats require endless amounts of repairs and upgrades no matter what
Quite the "Robust" video you put out here, good job!!!
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏🏻
I cycle over that bridge on my way to work
New subscriber here from Philippines ❤
So cool
the closeup panning at the fish market will make one seasick
You were probably going against the tide it rips down. The harbour..that's why it took a o long
James is looking five years younger
1984! Yr this guy stumbled in 🤟🏻 (Made in Canada)
I love Rhonda!
ME TOO!!!
You 👁️look👁️ *Good* Rhonda.
ENJOY James!😛
🙏🦉
🌅⛵🌊🏞️
As an Australian a hardly ever think about snakes, spiders or sharks. Such a tiny risk.
As an Australian, I hardly think about spiders. Snakes - you have to take it seriously. Read about a guy who stayed with aborigines decades ago in the NW living a traditional lifestyle. He said they were very wary of snakes so would burn the scrub around their camps. Sharks - yes, I've got an over active imagination so can't help thinking about them when I'm in the water.
FLAVA FLAV!! YEA BOY!
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Thousands of Golden Orb Weavers spiders around when you were there.
PS. I reckon Alberg 34 comes from Newcastle?
I am not sure where he bought it from
I don't wanna run with my whew who out, but i will.
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Im suprised you can just anchor in such a spot.
Why does that surprise you?
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I hear the Australian spiders can swallow a human whole .......... 😆
Have you seen the movie on CZcams named the sailor Paul Johnson?
Yes I did not like it
Prices at the market not cheap.
Rhonads a babe ratings just went up 👌🇺🇸
🥰🌟⛵️🥰🌟⛵️🥰🌟⛵️
How do you handle the sleep deprivation on passages?
You don’t get sleep deprived if you stick to your schedule, other than maybe on days where you make landfall
James any thoughts on getting a bigger boat now that you have a LAAAADY on board?
Absolutely NOT. We don’t NEED a larger boat and I am not a simpleton who thinks we do
@@SailorJames sounds good! Hi from Long Beach BTW our boat is right here in Alamitos bay. Love the videos!
Sort the passage out
The big spiders you will see out and about will be orb weavers in the big webs, or huntsmen which wander around and come inside. Both are pretty harmless. Learn to identify Sydney funnel webs, they live at ground level and don't wander around, so mainly only a concern if you are doing gardening or something. Red backs are just like black widows.
Yeah we saw lots of massive golden orb weavers
The orb spiders web is incredibly cool. Really thick and strong.
Buoy's (boys)...derived from buoyant like buoyancy..only Americans call them booeys 😂
Oh I love this explanation!!!!
I worked for a zoo for a couple of decades and my most embarrassing moment was being bitten by a gila monster (Heee la ). There is no treatment for their bites, and most of the deaths attributed to them were caused by the quart of whiskey treatment (1800s) if bitten in the past. Some cowboys would get bitten every other Friday night, just to get "treated". I ended up with a swollen index finger and knuckle area for a few days, with thumping pain the whole time. It felt like my finger was slammed with a 25lb sledgehammer, coated with glass shards. Known as the most painful of the reptile bites in the world (I was nailed by a cobra as well). Unless dancing with rattlesnakes for your religion, to die from a venomous bite in the US has odds of about 1:100,000 bites may result in fatality. Hollywood has trained us to just see the extraordinary, sensationalized segments of part truths, and stereotype it just like everything else. Even the bible makes up stuff about snakes to instill more fear than necessary. Love the sailing though. I am jealous.
We had tons of rattlesnakes where I grew and I have had probably 12 very close encounters with them , only saw one Gila monster in the wild, he was in an old tire in a pasture we just looked at him for a while and kept the dogs away and moved on
Has Rhonda taught you all the kiwi slang yet?
I spent a year in NZ, I knew kiwi slang before I met her
@@SailorJames Sweet as!
Hi James and Rhonda, I’m 64 years old always lived in Australia travel a lot overseas to 29 different countries but I’ve never been bitten by a snake or spider like a lot of things. If you respect them they will respect you. You only snake in Australia then I’ll actually chase. You is a king Brown which you hardly ever see, and even then they’ll only charge you if they feel like they’re being cornered or if they feel trapped, you are not their natural food anyway just enjoy yourself. Just be careful when you go up north Queensland the handbags/crocodiles up there will snap at you they get a half a chance , Cliff from Queensland
I know someone who breeds giant Spiders .. look up Brazillian Blue leg tarantulas..
Of all your Mexican perishers from what ive seen the Brown recluse potentially has the nastiest
Venom..
Australias a whole different ball park.
The Heila monsters venom
Is in the back of its mouth ...excruciatingly painful im told .. of the snakes im a sucker for the Great horned Rattle snake.. because of its role in Navaho mythology along with his buddy great horned toad .. actually the spiny ant eating lizard .. the one that bleeds from their eyes as defence mechanism.
Rhondas wrong about there being nothing that wants to kill you in NZ ... Try a rugby match with the all Blacks😵. 😬🤣😂
BTW
I grew up playing with horny toads and we constantly dealt with rattlesnakes, scorpions and centipedes and both myself and my brother have been stung by brown recluses
Proof Read: SYDNEY
who else noticed?