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The Dinghy Spart
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Adventures in "Spart", a 13'2" Welsford Houdini, based in Tasmania. Plus some other random water-related videos...
South West Tasmania by Sailing Dinghy - Part 3: South West Cape
This is the final video in a series of three of a six-week cruise from Macquarie Harbour to (near) Hobart. In this video, I sail around the South West Cape, a day of sailing that was looming large throughout the trip. The weary relief I appear to be feeling at Louisa Bay is real.
This leg of the journey involved 6 consecutive days of sailing and sleeping aboard, including two days beating out against strong winds to the Bathurst Harbour entrance.
Mat Conboy joined me for the last day of the trip, between Tinderbox and Lime Bay. If you want more in-depth details of this trip and my Tasmania dinghy trips in general, check out Mat's excellent video at Small Craft Tasmania: ua-cam.com/video/Ha6vHoFLuXI/v-deo.html
This leg of the journey involved 6 consecutive days of sailing and sleeping aboard, including two days beating out against strong winds to the Bathurst Harbour entrance.
Mat Conboy joined me for the last day of the trip, between Tinderbox and Lime Bay. If you want more in-depth details of this trip and my Tasmania dinghy trips in general, check out Mat's excellent video at Small Craft Tasmania: ua-cam.com/video/Ha6vHoFLuXI/v-deo.html
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South West Tasmania by Sailing Dinghy - Part 2: Bathurst Hb/Narrows with Jo
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Here's the second video in a series of three of a 6-week trip in South West Tasmania in my Houdini, Dinghy Spart. In this video, my partner, Jo, flies in to join me for a week of dinghy cruising in Bathurst Hb / Channel / Narrows. This part of the trip was something I'd been looking forward to for a long time. In large part, it was the purpose of the trip. It didn't disappoint. It's a challenge...
South West Tasmania by Sailing Dinghy - Part 1: Macquarie Harbour to Port Davey
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This is the first installment of a 6-week cruise I did from Macquarie Harbour to (near) Hobart. More to come when I get the time. If you're after more details of my boat and what I'm up to, then this video from Small Craft Tasmania has them (Mat, as usual, has done a really entertaining job here): ua-cam.com/video/Ha6vHoFLuXI/v-deo.html
Slalom kids on the North Esk
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A day kayaking on the North Esk (Laykila) River in northern Tasmania with some kids with skills. We entered this in the Australian Whitewater Film Festival in 2023 and came third. I think.
Packrafting the Lagoon River
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A packrafting trip down the Lagoon River on the west coast of Tasmania in 2021.
Tassie West Coast Sailing
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A winter cruise down the west coast of Tassie in 2013.
Kimberley cruising snippets
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Random video and pics taken during a 3 month cruise of the Kimberley coast in 2009
Dinghy cruising Northwest Tasmania
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Cruising from Burnie to Macquarie Harbour in Spart, a 13'2" John Welsford designed Houdini.
Packraft tender for a dinghy
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This is the packraft that I've started using as a tender. Building the packraft was a covid lockdown project. It's a 'Telkwa' from DIY Packraft. I think they say it takes about 30 hours to build, but it took me about 50 hours. Anyway, it's light and very sturdy, so I'm happy enough with the end result.
Dinghy cruising Bass Strait
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A Bass Strait crossing in the 13'2" Welsford Houdini "Spart", Nov-Dec 2016.
Dinghy cruising Tasmania's east coast
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Sailing up the east coast of Tasmania in "Spart", a 13'2" Welsford Houdini.
John Welsford boats are very gentle on the eye.
Really enjoying your short films, getting a glimpse into the adventurous dinghy life. Not sure my back would take it! Someone may have already asked but what's your navigation system on board?
Hi Andy. I keep a hand held gps (Garmin 78 I think) in my pfd pocket. It's got Australian charts preloaded. Back-up paper charts tucked away as well. The Garmin has been going strong for 10 years now and I've never needed to pull out the paper charts.
I've been watching your Houdini on UA-cam for years. Absolutely love it. I watched Mat's doco the other day as well. Great stuff and well done.
Making a whole two minute video about this is the ultimate in understatement, underscored by the laconic "capsize" [IN THE MIDDLE OF BASS STRAIT] annotation without further comment.
It's a shame I didn't manage to record the capsize, particularly to capture the waves that tipped Spart over. My videoing practice is just to get the camera out for a few minutes each day though, so kind of unlikely to capture a freak event.
Love it. Some of those swells looked big - and then I remind myself that the camera halves the actual size of the waves! Beautiful and inspiring work.
Yes, definitely re the wave size Peter. Some of the bigger sets were really impressive at the time, but when I look at the video it looks fairly mundane.
Epic voyage. 👍
That rounding of the cape was as good as rounding Cape Horn - some serious swells there. Thanks again for sharing the adventure.
great sailing ! and well done filming the trip ,great work !!
Southwest Cape! In a dinghy. And seemingly so under control. Great job Geoff
I love the to the point vids with no guff, cheers!
Made with the time-poor in mind Bruce 😉
Great work Geoff. Thanks for sharing (and the plug)...Stay Salty! Mat & Jo
💁I wish I were there! 👍👍👍 Thank you for another quick injection of life!
It looked a little dicey around 2:47 . Was that the 7 m swells? Weather looked pretty good until then. Great adventure, well done. Thanks for sharing.
Swell was down to about 3m by then. I was safely ashore during the 7m swells.
Thanks for your great videos sharing your adventures and scenery. Also your sensible seamanship showing what remote cuising can be accessed in a small high freeboard sailing dinghy.
Beautiful scenery Geoff. Awesome places.
Spart seem a no nosense, capable dingy typical of the designer but overlooked. Great to see more of your exploits. Cheers
Jo's are a great model. ⚓👍🍀
What kind of sleeping schedule do you have I mean do you camp on the beaches do you sleep on the boat what's the longest to go without sleep what sort of cooking do you do.... I suppose you don't go and have a shower and wash, all these basic chores quite a challenge wouldn't they be....I mean after a week not showering you'd be pretty smelly do you smell like an 18th century sailor
I camp either in the boat or maybe in a tent on the land if there's a good camp site. Cooking with a jetboil stove. Wash by swimming then rinse with a bottle of fresh water, or if feeling decadent I might warm a pot of water and have a sponge bath. I suppose I smell after a few days of not washing, but luckily I can't tell, and there's no one else around to smell me.
Hi, I saw you sailing in Bathurst Channel and then later leaving Allonah, I was on the OVNI 345. I envy you being able to stop along the West Coast and go ashore. I was wondering how you were getting forecasts and such when out of mobile coverage? Small HF receiver, sat phone, wild guesses? Any other electronic gadgetry?
Hi Bruce, I think I remember you going south as I was heading north out of Allonah? Gee it got windy an hour or 2 later! I was doing 3.5 knots under bare pole for a few minutes there. Re weather forecasts, I've got a Garmin InReach, a little satellite communicator that I can pair my phone to, and through that I can request marine forecasts from Garmin. They're okay, but they miss details like the synoptic situation and when fronts will cross, so I'd get my wife to message me with that extra info. My hand-held vhf was also picking up the coastal stations broadcasting the local weather. But usually by that stage I'm all over the weather forecast.
@@thedinghyspart2474Yes I was going south in BARYONIC and the wind did indeed pick up which made the last bit to The Quarries take a little longer that day 🙂.Thanks for the info re the Garmin.
That's seamanship. Congratulations.
Heck of an adventure mate. Look forward to hearing all about it!
awesome mate - doing what the rest of us dream about
Thanks Geoff. Interesting to see you haul out rather than anchor. I’d like to know when you decide to go to that effort? Incoming storm or something?
That part of the video where I'm dragging the dinghy up the beach was prior to a 7 metre forecast swell coming in and I wasn't going to wait and see what that looked like. Otherwise that was a good anchorage. But generally, if I'm just spending a night or 2 at a spot, and the anchorage isn't too rolly, I will anchor. Also when it's not really suitable to land (like a rocky shore). But generally, I find life on the shore a bit more convenient, and I sleep a bit better if I'm not rolling around or worrying in the back of my mind about dragging anchor etc. Being able to land ashore when an anchorage turns to shit is one of the few occasions that I've seen cruising yachtsmen be genuinely jealous of me 🙂
Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this. I’ve wanted to see this part of Tas so much. Just beautiful to see it. 😊
weather looks strangely nice for such notorious waters
It's a little bit deceptive there Philip, becuase I didn't get the camera out for the times I was hunkered down under the tarp pouring rain and howling wind😉
Thank you for posting.....
Awwwwwwww yes! What an adventure! Can’t wait to hear about it all in person!
The kind of exploring you're doing here is worthy of extended videos. This is fantastic. What an amazing adventure - I've sped five years learning the lines and getting better at sailing in preparation of a similar circumnavigation this summer (Vancouver Island) but I can't imagine what it's like to do this in a dinghy.
Thanks. Yeah, I get that a bit about the video length. Short is just easy, sorry. Good luck with your Vancouver Island circumnavigation. I know that place from the Alone series - looks harsh!
Great adventure! May i suggest, for getting the dinghy up the beach, some inflatable fenders? I guess you would need at least 4. The nice part is that if the beach is firm, they roll forward as you drag, so you only need to move them half as often as dragging over driftwood, and they also provide floatation
Hi Dominic. Yes, I've got a few inflatable boat rollers that I use for that purpose a sometimes. They double as buoyancy in my boat, so with the time it takes to disentangle all that and put it back in, it's sometimes quicker to just use driftwood (or kelp stalks, which is what I used mostly here). The 1:8 with driftwood, or whatever, has just become my go-to, because sometimes the ground is not so suited to rollers (eg: sharp rocks, or big clumps of driftwood).
@@thedinghyspart2474 oh that makes sense, thanks. Btw how much does spat weigh, do you think?
@dominictarrsailing just the boat, rigging, rudder, cb, about 150kg. On a trip like this with all the gear, batteries, motor, water, food etc, probably close to 300kg.
@@thedinghyspart2474 wow quite a bit! how long would you be provisioned for?
@@dominictarrsailing about 4 weeks. I'd guess the boat could fit 6 or 7 weeks of food before space started to become an issue.
Nice boat. Welsford dinghy?
Yep, a Tender Behind. A great little tender.
I am very curious about your use of this Minn Kota electric motor. What model is it? I cannot find it anywhere. Is it a modified outboard trolling motor or a specifically designed drop down thruster?
I went looking for it a few years back as well and couldn't find it. I think it must be discontinued. It's a trolling motor. When I originally bought it, they were saying that you get 2 of them and mount them on the cavitation plate of your large outboard motor, one each side.
epic!!!
Brave any troubles along the way🇨🇦
Came close to rocks in an unsurveyed area. Stayed out in the deep whenever I could after that. Otherwise a smooth trip.
Now that's yachting!
Wow!
I’m really happy to see your successful use of the engine mount Minn Kota motor in its “upside down” guise. I had seen the same model and am thinking of using it in the same way on my 18ft trailer sailer when it’s finished, although it seems like Minn Kota may no longer make that model any more. So I may have to source one second hand.
There's a lot more electric options for small boats now than there were 10 years ago, so it might pay to see what else is out there now.
I think you have a bilge pump installed on the cockpit but I read it was self bailing, why is it so?
Yes, I've seen the Houdini referred to as self draining. But it's not self draining as far as I understood that term. The bilge pump is what was in the design.
A vízi természethez a fa Dingy áll a legközelebb,es romantikus.,,..
KIS Ember nagy hajoja, !
Good onyer mate good aussie music too
Wow, fantastic adventure as always. More more !!!
So what do you use as a tender for your packraft?
Haha, swim, I suppose.
Great sailing and video ❗ Beautiful boat❗ Regards 😁
Is your hull shape a Whitehall skiff
I just googled Whitehall skill, and I'd say no, they are not alike. Whitehall is a narrow clinker construction. A Houdini is wider, with chines.
That's the real deal! Well done.
Interesting! :>)
amazing work man!
Awesome! So great to see you out and about again. Did you sail into Strahan?
No, I just got my wife to pick me up at the boatramp down near Hells Gates.
Well done. You are well on your way towards completing a circumnavigation of Tassie in a cruising dinghy. The waves never look as big on video, I bet there was some serious sailing there. Looks like a fantastic journey. Thanks for sharing it.
Hi Gary, mostly I only head out when the forecast is for less than 20 knots, so generally conditions are good. There was one alarming moment when a big set came through when I was in an unsurveyed section, and as it turned out close to some shallow rock.
Really nice. Well done.
awsome Love it, great set up and intent and sence of adventure