Thankyou James! With Sooo much negative and benign fluff on the internet watching someone living their best life is refreshing. Keep it up. Love and light
Been following your channel for years since you started rebuilding your boat. When sailing out of California I was waiting for the day you catch a fish! Great catch!
Kia ora James. Ben here from Wellington. Been getting into watching all your travels. Super epic hook up on the Kahawai. I love catching them at inlets. Good practice to bleed them out as soon as you catch them. Their blood will bitter the meat. Its great watching a Channel that sustains itself via your passion. Also Rhonda is an amazing Woman and good on her for just trusting her gut and jumping onboard with you for some wahine power. Loved when she narrated the history of a place in your Aussie Quarantine thang. Something missing on all other channels where they just rape and pillage the surrounding for pretty shots if gym bodies and noisy drone shots. Pet peeve when I travel is a bunch of youtubers with high frequency drones flying around everywhere. Much Respect James.
Good job on catching the fish. There is nothing like fresh fish. Here in Thailand they have fish tanks at the restaurants and the fish is cooked to order
Beautiful place, epic adventure.Great job picking up a new skill that is valuable in my book, the circle of life isn’t pretty so don’t feel bad about participating in it, dispatching something for food is fine.
Love your content!! I’ve always wanted to learn to sail, I owned a 34’ powerboat but sailing was always on my bucket list! Saw someone else comment, and it’s so true with all the negative stuff online it’s so nice to escape for a few and watch your videos out at sea. Keep up the great videos Sailor James!! 🫡
dude I love you're content I'm 18 and already trying to buy a boat and just go man, you inspire me so much and just down right make me laugh 😂 keep it up !!!!!
Nice James. Kahawai are a very underrated fish! We are so spoiled with the ubiquitous snapper that other edible fish are mostly "unwanted". Kahawai are usually smoked....delicious. Nicely fileted mate 😆 🤣.....did well! Mimiwhangata looks stunning!
Really loved this episode James it had a bit of everything Sun and clouds sea birds trying to take your catch a good dinner in a great anchorage and a good push north safe travels to you 👍🏼
All these years and that's the first time I've ever seen you catch a fish...well there ya go. You didn't do too bad at filleting it neither if that was your first time , people that live on the ocean feed from it. It will be interesting to see what happens on the Tasman side considering you mentioned weather predictions are usually good for 3 to 4 days.
Yes!!! That's cool. It's first time I saw you fishing👌🙂 can't wait for new content "catch and cook🙂 Thank you very much James for sharing your travels, these moments are so precious so Thank you
Kahawai is a good trolling fish on the East coast of the North Island. They can be a bit muddy tasting, but beautiful when smoked. We used to cut the tails off and tow them for a bit to get rid of some of the blood to make them better to eat. Enjoying your voyage visiting lots of places I spent time sailing around as a kid. in the big bay between Mimiwhanata and Whangaruru harbour there is an area of reef that is only partly charted as “breaking waves seen in heavy weather” . We almost sailed right over it on one trip and it was definitely a hazard for anything with more than a five foot draw on low tide and a decent swell. Mind you,that was in the 70s, so it may have been better surveyed by now. A little surprised you chose the rugged West Coast to go south when the east coast has so many fine harbours, features and safe havens. The West Coast is littered with shipwrecks from the 1830-1940s period, especially on the harbour bars. Still a beautiful journey either way, and a good sail in the windy Tasman! Happy trails!
Fabulous footage once again James and good job! Awesome showing the world this spectacular paradise NZ❤ Ex Saffa...but this beautiful country adopted me 13 years ago and never been happier 🙏 All the best for your next voyage. Keep these great videos rolling in 👍
A lemon adds to the pleasure of dining on fish, also add musley/grains/corn to the butter in the pan, gives a nice crunch to the proceedings! A Kiwi taught me that! SkipRay, Kerry, Ireland.
James, please take screen shots of you getting the close up on the dolphin off the bow and one of the dolphins flipping, screen print some shirts, id like 3 please.😊😊😊😊😊
Nice kahawhai, bro. I like your mentality when it comes to gathering kai moana (seafood in Maori) take only what you need and respect the life force (wairua) of what you take. Kahawhai are about as sustainable of a protein source as you can get, they breed in to large schools all around the country and aren't targeted by commercial fisherman for the most part. Great eating fish, though. Hope you enjoyed your time here.
Great filming & editing on the dolphin sequence! Always love watching the dolphins doing their thing. Congrats on the fish catch & nice job on the filleting!
My auncle attached a what was like a small surf board before the lure to stop it surfacing... it keeps it under water. When fish is on the small board comes out and easily wind in the fish ...
you can make a delicious fish broth with the carcass..throw somw onion. carrot, celery, garlic, some , and/or potatoes, tomato ( I realize you may not have all if those ingredients)..some herbs. Great with fish meat in it and some rice to accompany it.
I stumbled across your channel and seen this episode in my home country, good to see those areas from a different angle. Kahawai, easy to pronounce by saying it this way car, ha, why, is the most versatile fish in Aotearoa, you can cook it every way imaginable there is no legal size as they are abundant. Limit is heaps you wont need that much haha. Safe sailing down south brother James. Massive seafood the deeper south you go. Chur chur watch that weather if your in real time brother..
I was wondering if I ever would be able to catch fish on my boat and kill them. Seeing you do it expertly very fast made change my mind. Never saw that method before, If you would like please explain and give directions at another video.
Because the west is far safer for a solo sailor. It’s just ocean sailing. The east coast would have put me in a Lee shore for far too long after Gisborne
Your lure is not appropriate for trolling, it can twist the line and is not too much efficient. I would recommend a plug like a Rapala model x-rap, those are very serious lures and work very well on a sailboat. Another tip, here in NZ, have a lure slider type. When you see workups (gannets diving), just stop the boat, drop those to the bottom, and wind up slowly. Heaps of snappers can be caught on this technique. Enjoy NZ as much as possible, cheers mate!
@@SailorJames Oh yeah, I saw that, well done! :) Don't get me wrong, I'm just sharing my experience, but it doesn't mean that is the only way to do things. Fair winds!
Hey James was wondering if youve run into the Sailing Parley ??? They just got to New Zealand its were he actually lives so its going home for them but just wondering if youve met or know them??? Good group of ppl
When you are cruising the world you can’t just stop in and buy a new flag just anywhere. You also don’t have a mailing address where things can be shipped to you. I had Rhonda bring one to me in Marlborough sounds that she picked up for me in Auckland at Boat Books, the only place I found in all of NZ with USA flags.
Thankyou James! With Sooo much negative and benign fluff on the internet watching someone living their best life is refreshing. Keep it up. Love and light
For a fish filleting ‘virgin’, I’d say you made a pretty darned good job of it!
Safe travels.
😂 thanks 🙏🏻
Best Solo Sailing channel on CZcams in my opinion!
Nice work sailor James
Don’t forget the old Sea Dog (Barry Perrins on White Shadow), he too is going solo around the world. Also a good channel to watch.
Dolphins are so majestic it’s crazy.
Carnal those Dolphins jump out of the water just for you!! What a beautiful moment.
James you're a content machine!!! This was a good one!!! I had to come back to comment but watched every second!!
Yeah I will be releasing two videos a week for the foreseeable future because there is simply too much great content 😂
As a 44 yr fishermen, I must say, those filets looks just fine! Good work brother. Love from Niagara Falls
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Wouldn't mind coming back as a Dolphin. Great footage of those goofballs!
I screamed loudly when You did... ! Double Leap..... Unreal.
Awesome dolphin 🐬 🐬 🐬 Footage.
You seeing the dolphins is so great,It's like me seeing the whitetail deere at my locale I never get enough and so amazed..Safe sailing.
Been following your channel for years since you started rebuilding your boat. When sailing out of California I was waiting for the day you catch a fish! Great catch!
Loving your journey James and content
This is the content I love. Sailing! You’re a legend, brother. Look forward to the next videos
Always good to see a fish on board.
Your awesome ! You caught cleaned and cooked now your hooked 😂
Beautiful
Kia ora James. Ben here from Wellington. Been getting into watching all your travels.
Super epic hook up on the Kahawai. I love catching them at inlets. Good practice to bleed them out as soon as you catch them. Their blood will bitter the meat.
Its great watching a Channel that sustains itself via your passion.
Also Rhonda is an amazing Woman and good on her for just trusting her gut and jumping onboard with you for some wahine power. Loved when she narrated the history of a place in your Aussie Quarantine thang. Something missing on all other channels where they just rape and pillage the surrounding for pretty shots if gym bodies and noisy drone shots. Pet peeve when I travel is a bunch of youtubers with high frequency drones flying around everywhere.
Much Respect James.
Tom bowling bay, wow, what a spot to anchor and what a beach 🥰
Very Beautiful and remote in the Far North
Totally decent job cleaning that fish James.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Two lures worth towing to get fish around NZ .
Smiths jig.
Feather "Skippy" lure.
Both will take Kahawai and small tuna like skipjack and albacore .
Amazing footage James, thanks mate.
I AGREE WITH PO...GOOD Filet, especially for 1st time. Following from Texas and Taiwan.
Good job on catching the fish. There is nothing like fresh fish. Here in Thailand they have fish tanks at the restaurants and the fish is cooked to order
Beautiful place, epic adventure.Great job picking up a new skill that is valuable in my book, the circle of life isn’t pretty so don’t feel bad about participating in it, dispatching something for food is fine.
A buddy of mine put it best “if you were in the ocean they would for sure eat you” 😂
@@SailorJames True that 🤣
Good job catching the fish. Yeah dude you have to start somewhere. Fishing at piers is a good way to interact with locals. Have good travel dude
Love your content!! I’ve always wanted to learn to sail, I owned a 34’ powerboat but sailing was always on my bucket list! Saw someone else comment, and it’s so true with all the negative stuff online it’s so nice to escape for a few and watch your videos out at sea. Keep up the great videos Sailor James!! 🫡
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great video! The dolphin flip was epic 😁
dude I love you're content I'm 18 and already trying to buy a boat and just go man, you inspire me so much and just down right make me laugh 😂
keep it up !!!!!
Do IT!
Oh , you know I will !! Hope we cross paths one day dude
See you out there 🫡
Keep inspiring people !
Nice James. Kahawai are a very underrated fish! We are so spoiled with the ubiquitous snapper that other edible fish are mostly "unwanted". Kahawai are usually smoked....delicious. Nicely fileted mate 😆 🤣.....did well!
Mimiwhangata looks stunning!
That was awesome footage of the dolphins. Epic!
That was crazy, some acrobatics,what a wicked shot.. nice looking catch ✌️
Really loved this episode James it had a bit of everything Sun and clouds sea birds trying to take your catch a good dinner in a great anchorage and a good push north safe travels to you 👍🏼
All these years and that's the first time I've ever seen you catch a fish...well there ya go. You didn't do too bad at filleting it neither if that was your first time , people that live on the ocean feed from it. It will be interesting to see what happens on the Tasman side considering you mentioned weather predictions are usually good for 3 to 4 days.
I’ve been with you for 8 years man. Crazy huh.
Yes!!! That's cool. It's first time I saw you fishing👌🙂 can't wait for new content "catch and cook🙂 Thank you very much James for sharing your travels, these moments are so precious so Thank you
Well done James you did a great job with the fish
Kahawai is a good trolling fish on the East coast of the North Island. They can be a bit muddy tasting, but beautiful when smoked. We used to cut the tails off and tow them for a bit to get rid of some of the blood to make them better to eat. Enjoying your voyage visiting lots of places I spent time sailing around as a kid. in the big bay between Mimiwhanata and Whangaruru harbour there is an area of reef that is only partly charted as “breaking waves seen in heavy weather” . We almost sailed right over it on one trip and it was definitely a hazard for anything with more than a five foot draw on low tide and a decent swell. Mind you,that was in the 70s, so it may have been better surveyed by now. A little surprised you chose the rugged West Coast to go south when the east coast has so many fine harbours, features and safe havens. The West Coast is littered with shipwrecks from the 1830-1940s period, especially on the harbour bars. Still a beautiful journey either way, and a good sail in the windy Tasman! Happy trails!
West coast is much safer because it’s just an offshore passage well clear of land
Dolphin show was amazing and great camera work.
Fabulous footage once again James and good job! Awesome showing the world this spectacular paradise NZ❤ Ex Saffa...but this beautiful country adopted me 13 years ago and never been happier 🙏 All the best for your next voyage. Keep these great videos rolling in 👍
The food cooking and eating was cool..please show us more of your sleep setup if you could sir.
When I am in an anchorage I just sleep in my regular bed / Vberth
This was a good one James! Thanks!
A lemon adds to the pleasure of dining on fish, also add musley/grains/corn to the butter in the pan, gives a nice crunch to the proceedings! A Kiwi taught me that! SkipRay, Kerry, Ireland.
❤ nice to see some of the locals (dolphins)give you a playful welcome. 😊👍🌏
James, please take screen shots of you getting the close up on the dolphin off the bow and one of the dolphins flipping, screen print some shirts, id like 3 please.😊😊😊😊😊
Nice kahawhai, bro. I like your mentality when it comes to gathering kai moana (seafood in Maori) take only what you need and respect the life force (wairua) of what you take. Kahawhai are about as sustainable of a protein source as you can get, they breed in to large schools all around the country and aren't targeted by commercial fisherman for the most part. Great eating fish, though. Hope you enjoyed your time here.
Thanks. Fair Winds. How can you not love dolphins? All the best to you
i think you did a great job of filleting that fish ( Not Mackerel ) 😊, i would have ruined that standing still in a kitchen on land LOL
Hey James thanks for another awesome episode mate 👍 I've heard that that fish you caught are delicious 😋 cheers mate
Great filming & editing on the dolphin sequence! Always love watching the dolphins doing their thing. Congrats on the fish catch & nice job on the filleting!
Another great video Amigo!!
What an epic end to the episode
WOOHOO!!!!
My auncle attached a what was like a small surf board before the lure to stop it surfacing... it keeps it under water. When fish is on the small board comes out and easily wind in the fish ...
Welcome to New Zealand
I arrived in New Zealand Dec 2022 👍🏻 loved cruising NZ for a year
❤
Yeah Captain James 🎣!!!
Nothing like fresh fish :)
Not bad on your fillets like you said, you have to start somewhere.
I would definitely recommend the Kahawai raw, with a little soy sauce and wasabi, or give it a marinade in the mixture for a day.
I prepared the rest of the fish as Poisson cru
@@SailorJames Yeah, that's a great option too!
you can make a delicious fish broth with the carcass..throw somw onion. carrot, celery, garlic, some , and/or potatoes, tomato ( I realize you may not have all if those ingredients)..some herbs. Great with fish meat in it and some rice to accompany it.
I stumbled across your channel and seen this episode in my home country, good to see those areas from a different angle. Kahawai, easy to pronounce by saying it this way car, ha, why, is the most versatile fish in Aotearoa, you can cook it every way imaginable there is no legal size as they are abundant. Limit is heaps you wont need that much haha. Safe sailing down south brother James. Massive seafood the deeper south you go. Chur chur watch that weather if your in real time brother..
Love the hard doger my
Those filets are not bad atall for a first timer at sea. My first filet on dry land wasn't half as nice.
Fileting is like welding you learn with experience
Love your videos. Do you think you will ever do Southern Ocean islands ..like South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ?
Not on my boat, I know what the southern ocean does to small boats.
Круто!
Ive been watching your videos for awhile now Nd i truly hope your doing okay
Everyday is a blessing
G'day James. I see that you are in New Zealand, why not play some marie music would be more apropeate I would think.
Gerard on board
SV GEMSTAR.
🐬❤
I was wondering if I ever would be able to catch fish on my boat and kill them. Seeing you do it expertly very fast made change my mind. Never saw that method before, If you would like please explain and give directions at another video.
Just google search “spiking a fish”
@@SailorJamesThanx!
How long will u be in New Zealand new to Channel but loving ur videos nice and relaxing
I was in NZ over a year and sailed across the Tasman on February 6th
Nice fish, he will be tasty. Fish will get eaten by something or someone eventually, might as well be you. Enjoy!
Nice work bro! What made u want to sail the west coast down to the south instead of sailing down the east?
Because the west is far safer for a solo sailor. It’s just ocean sailing. The east coast would have put me in a Lee shore for far too long after Gisborne
Your lure is not appropriate for trolling, it can twist the line and is not too much efficient. I would recommend a plug like a Rapala model x-rap, those are very serious lures and work very well on a sailboat. Another tip, here in NZ, have a lure slider type. When you see workups (gannets diving), just stop the boat, drop those to the bottom, and wind up slowly. Heaps of snappers can be caught on this technique. Enjoy NZ as much as possible, cheers mate!
You do know I caught a fish on this video right?
@@SailorJames Oh yeah, I saw that, well done! :) Don't get me wrong, I'm just sharing my experience, but it doesn't mean that is the only way to do things. Fair winds!
Do you ever use the old ways i.e. map compass, and sextent?
I have paper charts onboard for everywhere I sail and have a sextant onboard and I know celestial navigation and basic Polynesian wayfinding
Where is Rhonda ?
All videos on CZcams are time delayed. I had not even met Rhonda when this video was filmed
Ok Thanks for answering @@SailorJames
Sushi with soy sauce dude
I would watch a real time passage but I'm weird
Not sure CZcams supports 13 day long videos 😂
Hey James was wondering if youve run into the Sailing Parley ??? They just got to New Zealand its were he actually lives so its going home for them but just wondering if youve met or know them??? Good group of ppl
He messaged me before I left NZ asking me for advice about Circumnavigating the islands but we never met before I sailed to Australia
You need a new US flag buddy. How can I buy you one? Just an old Soldier proud of the flag 👍
When you are cruising the world you can’t just stop in and buy a new flag just anywhere. You also don’t have a mailing address where things can be shipped to you. I had Rhonda bring one to me in Marlborough sounds that she picked up for me in Auckland at Boat Books, the only place I found in all of NZ with USA flags.
Well that’s cool. Just thought I’d offer!
thats a jigging lure not trolling. shame youve left nz i could show you a few pointers.
Be really careful you can fall off fishing dude!
Dude, I have sailed across vast oceans. I won’t be falling overboard on a flat calm day anytime soon.
Great work. Redouble your vigilence.