Sailing Kate Louise-dinghy cruise into the dark history of the Hawkesbury River
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Join me on an overnight dinghy cruise on the lower Hawkesbury and discover a lunatic asylum where 300 people died, a shipwreck and a graveyard on a deserted island
/ @sailingkatelouise
My boat is a Stornaway 18 by Derek Ellard at Scruffie Marine
Open boat or cuddy cabin options
info@scruffie.com
Lod 18' 5.5 m
Beam 6.6ft 2m
Draft 1.6ft .45cm
Ballast External 96kg( Skeg Keel) extra internal available
Weight 350kg approx
Sail area 17.85sq m
Lugsail Yawl
Sleeps 2 in cuddy cabin and 2 under boom tent
Music: all tracks licenced under creative commons licence
Infinity- Lemmino
Contolled collapse-coldnoise
Dirty Mac- Endless love
Eureka- Huma Huma
Moving on- Wayne Jones
The Secret of the Cobra-Kai Klaas
Young and old know love- Puddle of Infinity
Lunar- Kai Klaas
Chill tune- Carrier 23 Chills
Free ambient background music
Ether- Silent Partner
Straight- Bensound
Elegant background-Akashic records
Paul, I love your videos. So calming.
Glad you like them! and thanks for watching Joel, cheers Paul
I started on my rebuild juno 22 now 5 boats along we just bought a contest 38 but still feel like a dingy cruiser.
Love you're channel Please keep up the good work.
Kind regards machiel the Netherlands.
Wow 5 boats....my wife wouldn't be happy, thanks for watching, cheers Paul
Thank you friend. I don't understand English well, but I rested with you.
Thanks for watching
Sailing is universal
Very interesting bird calling out listening to you as you work on that breakfast of eggs 🍳 with crisp mushrooms 🍄.. cheers 🥂 papa J P.S. Got to go back n watch n write ✍️ down your evening meal.
Many thanks
It was on another vid you mentioned how well old cassette tape works as a wind tell tail. I was reminded of this cool idea again as you focused in one a piece tied to one of your mask stays. 👍. Enjoy n learning great stuff mate as we cruise .. you in your boat n I in my arm chair for now. Papa J
Thanks for watching and working through the videos ...there's a lot, cheers Paul
I always enjoy watching your videos on my laptop while eating breakfast in the morning. Your brand of sailing is peaceful and serene: A great way to start the day! It always puts me in a good mood to start working on my own sailboat. Thanks, Paul. I very much enjoyed this episode of Sailing Kate Louise.👍👍👍
Thanks for watching and happy building cheers Paul
Good to join you out on the water again! Always enjoy your comments on the places you visit!
Thanks for watching
Another great video & very interesting trip on the water Paul. Not only do you sail & give us great commentary along the way, we enjoy beautiful scenery, a local & very interesting history lesson, and cooking and mulled wine recipes!
Looking forward to watching more video's & cooking up a pot of mulled wine!
Thank you so much
Hi Paul,thank you for another great video. Always enjoy seeing Kate Louise and finding out what you guys are up to. Your winters sound about as good as our summers here in the UK. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching.....we are just going into another covid lockdown, but I think things are turning around in the U.K. stay safe cheers Paul
I'm really enjoying all the channels you guys in the Sydney Raid post on UA-cam- they're inspiring, informative and great to watch, especially sitting here in the rain and hail of the UK winter!
Sorry about your weather, but we have had a very wet Summer as well, due to La Nina. Glad you like the Raid Videos I think the group is fairly new and I hope to go on lots more adventures with them....even though my dinghy actually has a lid, Thanks for watching Cheers Paul
I Enjoyed your story abt lower hawkesbury R. I did Wisemans F to Bar point by canoe and on to dangar Isle, long time ago. Camped opposite (north) of Dangar isle.
Thanks for sharing Paul. Cheers Andy
Hi Andrew that's a great paddle, such beautiful countryside....did you get a sore back? thanks for watching and see you on the water, cheers Paul
@@SailingKateLouise Paul, we did this trip in a BLine wombat canoe. Seats: moulded & quite good. At 16 and half years old... no sorebacks. Im going to give port jackson a try soon (in a kayak). Cheers buddy, Andy
Hi again from northern Japan. How I love to watch your videos! along with those of Roger B and plymouthwelshboy. Thanks to all of you for your generosity in taking us with you. Cheers, and fair winds. (Someday, please tell us what "vegetarian mayo" is, and its significance when you've included salmon... ; )
Hi there thanks for watching, well normal Mayonnaise is fine but I'm trying to go vego and so it was veg mayo with no egg or dairy not sure what else is in it, give it a go! cheers Paul
@@SailingKateLouise Yessss.... Buuut.. You had eggs and salmon, so..... ; )
I recently found your channel. It's obvious you put a lot of thought and effort into your videos. Good job! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching cheers Paul
Really loving these videos mate , your stories on the history of many of the places you sail I really love , proud Australian and love history around our country , so many things happen on our wonderful land and seas , for the good or the worst it is what it is , fantastic sailing to , bar crossing and little tips you put out there on your journeys, I always look forward to finding another one of your videos to watch , keep them coming mate ,happy sailing .👍
Thanks for those kind words. it keeps me going, cheers Paul
Hi Paul. Great videos. Keep them coming! Very Roger Barnes-esque and in the true tradition of camp cruising. Must try and catch up with you again when lockdown is finished. We crossed paths a while back while you where setting up to shoot at Apple Tree Bay. I was driving a green station wagon and couldn't resist but to stop and have a talk about your Stornoway. I have a Ross Lillistone First Mate and chafing a the bit to get out when lockdown is done with. Cheers Rob.
Thanks Robert, yep I remember, will keep an eye out for you when I'm down at Apple Tree Bay and on the water Cheers Paul
Another informative video Paul I'm glad you were able to get away and I'm sorry I wasn't available. Cheers Steve
I hope you enjoyed it, mind you I'm not a lover of the Moonee Moonee boat ramp very hard to get onto the trailer with wind and wash cheers Paul
Another terrific video Paul. Interesting info about Peat Island. I remember when I was a child my mother jokingly threatening to drop me and my siblings there if we we didn’t behave in the car on our way to my grandparents place further north.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it cheers Paul
Just caught this one Paul although it's 7 months old don't know how I missed it before long away around to answering your concern about the possibility of your postings getting boring ( NO) they are not always informative but even more important that your live if what you do really comes through .
Keep posting and we'll keep watching.
Thanks from Florida
Thanks mate , feedback is always good , Cheers Paul
I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I just sold my Hunter 27 but I really enjoyed the numerous coves and inlets where I would sail in and spend the night on the boat. I love watching your videos. It’s got me thinking that I would like to build a sailboat and do some more exploring. Nova Scotia has many spots where you can pull in for the night and enjoy the shelter for the evening. I have built an 8 ft pram and an 11 ft flat bottomed skiff in the past. I still have the skiff and am hoping to convert it from a row boat to a sailing dinghy this summer. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Regards from Nova Scotia
Stuart
Thanks Stuart, it must get bloody cold there in winter. I remember seeing the movie The Shipping News very rugged and beautiful. Check out my latest videos featuring music from Scotland's Mike Vass who is also popular in that part of the world. Thanks for watching, Cheers Paul
Thanks for sharing Paul, brilliant video.
Regards,
Paul.
Thanks for your support cheers Paul
Another great video Paul, thank you.
My pleasure thanks for watching
Hey Paul another great vid, I am a POM and have lived here for 15 years (Green Point Brisbane Water) and have a little Shimmy 12. This was build by a guy in Sydney who shortly passed away after completion. It was built to be used as a small powered boat, I want to modify it for sailing, (need to extend the keel and purchase or make a sail kit). Maybe you can do a vid in the future on BW and I can get it out, or we can catch up etc, and make a vid on food, and wine. More than happy to talk further on email etc. Keep up the film making
Thanks for reaching out Jeremy always good to find another Scruffie in NSW in fact you are the first, hopefully through the videos maybe more will be contact.It would be great to get a group together. I have paddled around Kincumber but haven't sailed in your part of the woods. Adding a keel and rig is probably a question for Derek at info@scruffie.com but there are many shimmys in Queensland they were often built by Seascouts you might be able to get some help there.Cheers Paul
These videos are so amazingly edited and I love watching them. This one particularly had some great info. Keep it up!
Thanks mate , yep they take a few days to put together but it's good to know that's appreciated, thanks for watching cheers Paul
Hey Paul. How about a Pittwater expedition?
Yep would love to probably in the summer. The only decent boat ramp is at Bayview and it's $6 per hour or $26 for 24 hrs in summer so more likely do an overnight from Brooklyn, thanks for watching cheers Paul
Is that a commissioning pennant at the peak of the main? Great video - thanks. We sail a 28' ketch out of Brooklyn so getting under those two bridges is dodgy - nice to have the guided tour of the other part of the river! Fair winds....
Thanks for watching.....it's a number 8 pennant but looks like a St George flag cheers Paul
Lovely as usual sir! In my neck of the woods, (Cornwall) the phrase is 'cold hands; warm heart' if that helps at all. Do you get bull sharks in that area?
Hi well there are occasionally bull sharks, but luckily I haven't seen one, you keep the swims short! Cheers Paul
if you want to sail in island, go the bahamas
I'd love to......but will we ever travel overseas again?
Wonderful video but (pedantry alert) the spar along the top edge of lugsail is a yard, not a gaff. :)
Thanks for watching
Paul another lovely video thanks, I'm setting up to build a timber boat at Lake Macquarie and would like to contact Steve and Trevor to chat. If I could get details or I will send mine that would be great. Keep up the good work and on your next Lake Mac sail I'll catch up, thanks Scott
no worries send me your email and I will pass it on mine is sailingkatelouise@gmail.com
Seems there has been a lot of sadness on the Hawksbury. Watch the TV mini series The Secret River.
Hi Steve yes that's true ,I did see the series a few years ago but I think I will have to watch it again. Thanks for watching Sailing Kate Louise, cheers Paul
@@SailingKateLouise Enjoying your channel Paul. I can watch sailing stuff all day :) You have a good channel, that I'm following.
@@stevelawrie9115 Thanks Steve
I've been through Milton Island channel in my 26 foot tasman ...it's OK..
Hi yes I have kayaked through there a few times but never sailed, the current can be strong. Thanks for watching and check out my other videos , cheers Paul
Fun that you put up the "subscribe" reminder as a burgee.
Glad you noticed it took a while to get it right cheers Paul
Horrifying story about the asylum and how long it took to close it but very enjoyable video as always. Thanks!
H,i it switched to a care home in 1983 and then closed in 2010 but had a notorious reputation.Thanks for watching
Paul you are lying and when we see you on the water, which we surely will, we will confront you with the absolute rubbish that you have published. We have fond memories of both the people that we cared for and our colleagues at Peat and Milson Islands Hospital. We were in our early 20's back then, we are in our 70's now. To make such accusations without any evidence whatsoever speaks volumes for your character. We are thoroughly disgusted with you!
I guess such a delicious meal can be cooked only on a small boat.
No you can make it at home....but food always tastes better on a boat, Cheers Paul
Winter. And he's wearing shorts...
Does not compute 🤯
well what can I say....I eat spinach(popeye) thanks for watching cheers Paul
I am member in your channel and it is my favourite but now with the music we lost the whole atmosphere and tranquility
Hi Vasso thanks for watching, I use less music in later videos please check them out, cheers Paul
Sailing Kate Louise- i like i am in the uk
Thanks for watching Paul, there are a few Stornaway 18's in the U.K. they were built there under licence in the nineties, cheers Paul
When you anchor overnight, what type and weight of anchor are you using? What length of chain do you use, and what is the mm diameter of the chain? Then what anchor warp is used?
Hi Catalina.....I now have a 6kg anchor with 7m metres of 8mm chain and 30 metres of warp. That seems like a lot for a boat that only weighs 350 kgs, but as I was washed ashore once with a 5kg anchor that badly dragged I decided to up to 6 Kg and heavier chain, Cheers Paul
Where would you rather be? the M1, pacific highway, or in a boat in the Hawkesbury River, looking up at the M1?
no brainer....thanks for watching
300 deaths? Kinda not really. I computerised the full set of patient records and registers in the 1990s. These records and registers covered the period 1911 onward. There were a lot of entries in the register of deaths in the early part of the 20th century and I compared them to the admission registers. Many, many, many, in fact most names were not those of admitted patients. I never did get to the bottom of that, but it was pointed out at the time that the doctor also serviced the river communities in the early part of the 20th century. It seemed likely these death records represented the river communities as a whole. These records were packed up and sent to government repository in the early 2000's. The center was under DOCS at the time, not Health. So nice horror story for a moonless night, but another urban myth I'm afraid.
Thanks for sharing, I wanted to be accurate and it annoys me that, the journalists of the day didn't check their facts upon which I relied.....my bad.Sorry
@@SailingKateLouise No, not your bad. The horror reports exist. When the Greiner government restructured the NSW public service it moved senior management from 'independent' to contracted. Senior managers signed contracts that set performance benchmarks on which their future depended. One of those benchmarks was the closure of institutions in their geographic areas. Did they just close them? No. First they had to convince the public that closure was the only option, and publicity was the vehicle. I'm not saying all, but some of those horror stories originated within the government department. I watched it happen. You're telling the story officials promoted at the time. Maybe one day the departmental horror stories will be told. BTW, I am glad they're closed. Look at the reports on any type of residential institution and it's hardly a life choice any of us would make for ourselves.
@@allanm9913 very interesting thanks for sharing, it always comes down to politics.
Beautiful boat did you build it yourself ?
Unfortunately no, but they are available as a kit or prebuilt. Derek Ellard from Scruffie marine is also designing a slightly longer version with more built in ballast and a better outboard rig. Check out his other boats Scintilla 30 and Secret 20, thanks for watching Cheers Paul
@@SailingKateLouise Wow ! do you know where I can obtain one as a kit ?
@@giauscaesar8047 contact Derek Ellard at Scruffie Marine, they are about to go into production again after covid
Scruffie Marine
Phone: 07 5545 1013 | Website: www.scruffie.com
Postal Address: PO Box 120, Eagle Heights QLD 4271
@@SailingKateLouise Thank you so much.
How do you spell that delicious salmon, rice, peas etc dinner mate. I’d love to try n make it. Thankz ahead .. Papa j
Kedgeree, cheers Paul
How much of a difference does a yawl sail make on your setup?
Hi , It doesn't point as high as a Bermudan rig so I'm not going to win any races, but reaching and downwind she flies.Also as a lugsail yawl there is a difference in pointing and speed depending which side of the mast the gaff sits ie which tack you are on. But she more than makes up for that with looks, cheers Paul
Magnetic declination is about 11 or 12 degrees right now.
Thanks Keith, cheers Paul