James Craig in Full Flight
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2019
- James Craig, restored 19th century barque in full sail returning to Sydney from the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart in February 2019.
We sail with up to 80 passengers every two weeks, alternating Saturdays and Sundays departing Darling Harbour Sydney for a six hour day saIl to the open ocean.
Bookings: shf.rezdy.com/catalog/378281/...
James Craig is planning a voyage to Hobart for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival 10-13 February 2023. The ship can accomodate up 12 paying passengers for what past voyagers have described as "an epic voyage on an epic ship".
Enquiries at: shf.rezdy.com/catalog/378281/...
I'm a former for top man on a square rigged top sail schooner. There i nothing more beautiful than a full rigged ship under full sail. I wish I was young enough to once more take my place on the foretop...
Are you like 300 years old?
@@hongo3870 is this video 300 years old?
You should read Patrick O’brian ‘s books
How utterly epic. Global sea navigation and all the getting about the place, will always feel enthralling to me. ,, But the achievement of any of it during our old days,, now that was just "off the chart" boldness. Literally, as well as laterally ..
My soul does doff its cap forever to you all good sirs.
They used to literally sail "off the charts!" Nice one! 👍🏼
"One night [...] I went out to the end of the flying-jib-boom upon some duty, and, having finished it, turned round, and lay over the boom for a long time, admiring the beauty of the sight before me. Being so far out from the deck, I could look at the ship as at a separate vessel; and there rose up from the water, supported only by the small black hull, a pyramid of canvas, spreading out far beyond the hull, and towering up almost, as it seemed in the indistinct night air, to the clouds. [...]
So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail, so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me, until he said (for he, too, rough old man-of-war's-man as he was, had been gazing at the show), half to himself, still looking at the marble sails,- ``How quietly they do their work!''
--- Richard Henry Dana, 'Two Years Before the Mast'
Perfect, thank you
@יונתן זנטון forces you can taim, but still may bite you :)
@@RubenKelevra but another will take my place
Excellent reference, from a FAV book, much thanks. He, along with Robert Conrad, Herman Melville and Victor Hugo were the Head Lemmings I followed directly over the cliff and into the sea! 🐁🌊🌊🌊 This kind of voyage would be a THRILL of My Lifetime! 😁🙏🏻👍
What a sight to see and hear. Thank you for sharing!
Perfect.
How cool is that. The first time I heard of the James Craig it was marked as a wreck on a Forestry Tasmania Map. Then it was a bare hull moored off the Botanical Gardens in Hobart. Nice to see it alive again.
She's a beauty! I've got bowsprit envy...
Wow! Stunning!
Thank you! 😊
A beautiful and magical sight. Almost like seeing a unicorn.
This is one of the most satisfying purchases I ever made.
Sits in its glass bottle on my bookshelf.
There is a certain majesty to square rigged ships and catboats alike. Having spent time around New Bedford, Orleans and the Cape, I got to see quite a few of these. Thank you.
yeah, that is the way to travel!
Beautifully done Phil - the music is perfect and its volume relative to the sea sounds is perfectly matched 👏👏
Brings back the 7 year old boy inside me. His love of the sea and sailing ships is still alive.
something about em when you're a young boy it's unexplainable
"...The Ocean was made to be sailed over." -Capn. Joshua Slocum -'Sailing alone around the world' ca. 1905
Apparently he never crossed both oceans twice in a troop ship!! ugh!
@@JEANSDEMARCOI can't really think of that as sailing, but he did spend his whole adult life Captaining sailing vessels with actual sails, not as human cargo in sn engine-powered vessel. No disrespect to you or to the service of course, but they could not be less alike, I'm sure the Captain would agree. PS there are more than two oceans.
@@photonjones5908 Just tongue in cheek humor!! Much respect to him! I crossed the Pacific to Korea at 17 yrs old in 1960, then a year later crossed the Atlantic to Europe when they built the Berlin wall! The food was really bad! At 80 yrs old, still remember it well! lol 😅
I built a model of his "Spray" !
Even his Patatoe barrel.
I.
Simply magnificent!! Fully rigged running before the wind. Nothing else like it..
she is not fully rigged - the mizzen mast carries fore and aft sails - no squares
Awesome!!
So wonderful to see it out on the ocean 🌊 doing what it was made to do
Yet only a few years earlier it was a rotting hulk in the Derwent river 😍😍👍👍👍
Beauty.
Need a video from the aft end forward, great video.
Great ship
Magic
Isn’t she superb. What an incredibly relaxing little film.
Absolutely
Beautiful !!!!
What a gorgeous ship, thank you for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
outstanding!!👌
God, how I wish I was young again to crew one of these great ships....
No one was interested in rebuilding them in the '50s and '60s when I would have been.
How men meticulously conceptualize, designed and built this, thousands of them, with very basic machineries and tools.
Even the act of gathering the huge amount of resources just to build them was a gargantuan task.
And now they are considered "obsolete" but for its time, it did exactly as it was needed for. And they were beautiful.
dont worry one day they'll probably be used again
I have a feeling sails will make somewhat of a comeback over rising oil prices and environmental concerns as there are still some niches sails can effectively fill, although they'd be fore-and-aft rigged rather than square rigged. There is already a serious concept for Bermuda-schooner rigged RO-RO vessels in the work. Bermuda rigs are insanely effective these days thanks to their longtime use and development for recreational craft, wingsails have been played with as well but they are not as flexible and more difficult to handle, so if we see regular sailing cargo ships again it's a hull with some sailboat rigs slapped on it carrying cargo that is not as time sensitive (i.e. cars) is what we're looking at.
pretty cool,, love NZ
More please
What a lovely post ✨
Thank you! 🙂
Great to see her alive again. Remember buying rivets for her hull restoration!
I remember smashing those in as an apprentice!
Thanks
Going large. Beautiful.
Big thanks
There is nothing in the world that compares with riding a bowsprit. I did it on Insulinde in Curacao on the return from Kline Curacao. What a rush!
Ocean dreams
Beautiful.
Thank you!
The ocean's, water, mariners, albatrosses, within the distance, arising from contact, a truly singular world, when the Pilgrims sailed to the new world, and the Spanish armada, Elizabeth 1st, of England, Drake, Raleigh, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Charles Vane, Cheung Po Tsai, William Kidd, Emanuel Wynn, Grace O'Malley, Bartholomew Roberts, Anne Bonny, Edward Low, etc, etc, etc,!
Oooo! Etruskowie płyną!
I’d give anything to experience sailing on a ship like this
Technology that changed the course of human history.
Superb video but why the music?
Amazing vessel, must be such a peculiar experience to sail one of those.
Very!
There’s old film early 1900s sailing around the Cape Horn fearless men back in the day
my dream...
Inner Jib, Outer Jib, Flying Jib and Jib of Jibs! It's the whole shooting match!
from aft forward it is: fore topmast staysail; inner jib; outer jib; flying jib....that's three jibs and one staysail
Reminds me of the Juan Sebastian De Elcano.
Aye Captain!
I didn't realize there were ships like this that
actually sailed today, perfect for a movie.
I wish you could have had some drones out
filming this, to give additional perspectives.
Nice Boat.
There's only four restored 19th century barques that still sail today; two in the US, one in France, and the James Craig registered in Sydney, Australia. The Craig is the only one to take passengers under sail every two weeks out of Sydney's Darling Harbour
@@philiphewett2803 Very cool..
here's a 5 minute short on the James Craig where drone and helicoptor were used: czcams.com/video/cKQjuYf6QBQ/video.html
@@philiphewett2803 Thanks!
Brilliant to see a shot from the job boom. It would be nice to hear the clip without the music...I miss the sound of the sea on a sailing brig
This is such a great view! I've been doing research on sailing for a project of mine and I have a couple of questions. What is your windspeed and traveling direction against the wind, as well as the ship's traveling speed in this video? What would you say is the fastest this ship has or can travel?
I don't remember the windspeed at the time but I do recall that we were running at 8 to 8.9 knots. The James Craig, formerly Clan McLeod (1874) recorded speeds often around 10/12knots and her best recorded was 14 knots.
For comparison the Cutty Sark (1869) Clipper ship best recorded speed was 17 knots, and Parma (1902) a four masted Barque routinely sailed at 8/9 knots with best recorded speed of 16 knots.
Square rigged ships cannot sail into the wind so in order to make headway they had to routinely tack or wear - such manouvres led to the ship making a sort of zig-zag passage across the wind, and hopefully slightly forward with each turn of the ship. Under these conditions the crew would have worked extremely hard bracing the huge yards first to one side, then a short while later, to the other side, and this sometimes went on for days at a time.
@@philiphewett2803 This helps a lot. It's hard to find first-hand knowledge ship speeds on the internet! Sorry for the late response, I didn't realize this reply was sitting here! At any rate, you have been very informative. Thank you for your time!
There are things, unfortunately few, which are shaped by the environment and human effort into something of pure beauty, as shown here…..
What about the ends of those lines? Won't they get frayed?
the running ends of the lines are whipped ie a waxed thread is turned tightly around the line - commonly one whipping is placed close to the end, and a second one is about three rope diameters back from it. There are a few methods to whip eg sailmakers, west country, needle and palm, and more
I'm wandering is the sailing yacht made from a wood or steel
originally an iron riveted plate hull, now mostly steel rivited plates but some of the original plates remain. Steel lower masts, timber masts and yards above,
How many to crew?
In her trading days circumnavigating the globe (13 times with 23 roundings of Cape Horn) her crew total was 17, then in later years as steam cut into sail trade she mostly operated in the trans Tasman trade, then crew was reduced to 14. From 1874 (her launch as Clan McLeod) to1901 she made 23 Cape Horn roundings. Today on her fortnightly day sails off-shore of Sydney her crew is 25 and passengers total 80. James Craig is the recipient of the Worlds Ship Trust award for authentic restoration.
How many did it take to sail this?
cant be less than 20 but idk shit
In her trading days circumnavigating the globe (13 times with 23 roundings of Cape Horn) her crew total was 17, then in later years as steam cut into sail trade she mostly operated in the trans Tasman trade, then crew was reduced to 14. From 1874 (her launch as Clan McLeod) to1901 she made 23 Cape Horn roundings. Today on her fortnightly day sails off-shore of Sydney her crew is 25 and passengers total 80. James Craig is the recipient of the Worlds Ship Trust award for authentic restoration.
@@philiphewett2803 Thank you for the informative response! God what I would give to sail this wonderful ship!
@@BamaLam4 if you ever get to visit Sydney, the home of the James Craig, you can book a day sail. The ship takes up to 80 passengers to sea for a day sailing every two weeks. You can also join the ship for its upcoming 10 day voyage Sydney to Hobart in February 2023 when 12 adventurous passengers will get to experience life aboard a 19th century barque.
Piękne
they carried limes in the old days to ward off disease
why music?
Split topsails??
yes
she sure does move pretty quick when she isn't full of water.
Wonderful! I believe this ship was named after a boy in New Zealand. Can anyone tell me who that boy was, other than James Craig of course! What his background was, etc.
J.J Craig b1886 was the owner of “the most famous and best known fleet of sailing ships owned in New Zealand” (Sailing Ships of The Tasman Sea, Jack Churchouse)
Craig named his ships after his children as follows:
James Craig (ne Clan McLeod) (Capt AD McLeod) (Captain William Alexander) (Captain Alexander Campbell) (Captain Purdon) (Captain Nagle)
Marjorie Craig (Lt Commander William Edwards Sanders, VC, DSO, RNR) (Captain MacFarlane)
Louisa Craig (Lt Commander William Edwards Sanders, VC, DSO, RNR)
Jessie Craig (Captain MacFarlane)
Joseph Craig (Lt Commander William Edwards Sanders, VC, DSO, RNR)
Selwyn Craig
Hazel Craig (ne Quathlambar)
@@philiphewett2803 thank you very much. Appreciated. I was wondering if the ship was named after a James T Craig who became an architect and one of the founders of the firm Craig Craig Moller which designed the Auckland Tower. I think James T Craig would have been born at around about the time that the ship was launched. Have a good day from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Why put music on this? What's wrong with the sound of the sea - on its own?
It's all fun until the big waves hit turn on radio😅💦
What's that block swinging around? Looks dangerous - something is wrong there
They are the headsail sheet blocks. There's two sheet blocks on each of the head sails. One is on the lee side under tension, the other is on the weather side ie the lazy sheet. Yes the 'lazy' blocks are especially a hazard and crew on forward lookout are well aware of the risks and pay constant attention to these 'dancing' blocks.
@@philiphewett2803 Thanks. Interesting, I'm surprised it doesn't manage to wrap itself around some of the other string.
Why always that guitar etc. Noice of the sea and water will be enough !!
That's my choice. I appreciate your comment.
Would have looked even better with the stu'n's'ls set.
there is no record of the James Craig (formerly Clan McLeod) carrying stuns'ls - her restoration to full sailing condition was recognised in 2003 by the World Ship Trust’s award of their prestigious Maritime Medal.
@@philiphewett2803 Thank you. I always liked the looks when a square rigger would also set the stu'n's'ls. HMS Surprise comes to mind as well as pictures of Cutty Sark.
Whatever you do - don't buy the drone in the ad. It's a scam. Not worth 10 dollars.
Theres a reason why we stopped using wind power in the 1600's.
This ship lay rotting in a river in Tasmania until the mid 1980s I think….now look at her.
Recherche Bay in far southern Tasmania - tiodal but shallow. She had been bought by a scrap metal merchant.
🥰🌈⚘
Anyone who honestly believes that wind power can replace natural gas as an efficient energy source needs to work for a year on a boat like this ......
You do realize that they are making wind-powered cargo ships, like car carriers, today. They want to save the fuel costs.
@@Awol991 That's not a new idea... I remember reading some newspaper article back in the '80s that was touting ships assisted by large metal louver-like 'sails'. But nothing ever seemed to come of that idea. It would be interesting to know why the proposal didn't get off the drawing board. Perhaps there is something inherently unfeasible in the idea?
@@mikef.1000 Nah, just so much easier to burn fossil fuels and pollute the planet. I'm sure "sailing" is also much slower.
While, yes, attempts are being built but there are no actual ships in actual operation ... and the entire modern wind industry is a slow-motion train wreck of cost overruns, failed promises, and epic landfill issues .....
How many men are needed to operate this ship?
A comment above states 14-17
I would not want to put up that many sale's
the fun is in putting them away!
@@philiphewett2803 I have tarped a truck, it's almost impossible, canvas is heavy and hard to handle. and if it got wet it would be harder.
@@DANTHETUBEMAN it can tear your nails out!
@@philiphewett2803 I like looking at those ships and realizing that was the leading age of technology in there time. they look cool 😎 also.
Delete the music please. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
volume control does that
@@philiphewett2803 volume control kills the wind, too. But to get rid of the music - gotta ask the author. I totally second that opinion.
Boring. One view???
Why do so many people ruin their great videos with shit music over the top?