Okay, I know this is a "replica" of a fictional vessel, but it was the boat they used in the movie and it's pretty cool! The Maritime Museum of San Diego is really worth a visit - they maintain and...
2025-10-02 17:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-09-29 22:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In the last video we visited the amazing Spaulding Marine Center, and they let us loose in their workshop!
I just wanted to share some more information about their mission, in their own word...
2025-09-23 20:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video we sail into San Francisco Bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge, and are hosted at the amazing Spaulding Marine Center. We use their machine-shop for some metalwork - to prepare brass st...
2025-09-20 16:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Will and I working aloft at Richmond YC - fastening the strips of brass that will prevent the mast from getting chafe-damage from the gaff saddle.
Fastening into spars like this is a common ...
2025-09-18 17:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on the mast chafe solution at Spaulding Marine Centre in Sausalito. I do love a proper Bridgeport mill! More machining to come in the next video.
Big thanks to @spauldingmarinecenter...
2025-09-17 22:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been invited to take part in a pilot for a new Patreon feature called Quips - all my normal content is still in the same place, but this month there are a few special exclusive posts on the ...
2025-09-16 19:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Tally Ho will be visiting the Maritime Museum of San Diego this afternoon - if you'd like to see the boat, come on down. I anticipate that we will be there from around 2 - 6pm, although the museum ...
2025-09-15 17:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We've had a wild few weeks, and it's been a challenge to keep things up-to-date!
But, as I start to work on the next video, which documents Tally Ho sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge and ...
2025-09-14 22:08:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we sail Tally Ho south, on her longest offshore passage for several decades!
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Music;
Zachariah Hickman - The Colonel
After several days of sailing we discovered some serious chafe-damage on the mast, and dropped the mainsail for the last part of the journey. More info in tomorrow's video!
2025-09-05 20:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no way to describe the feeling of being alone on night-watch while your crew-mates sleep soundly below deck. The weather is fair; the moon is shining through the clouds and onto the sails, ...
2025-09-01 21:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The size of ocean swell is hard to estimate and even harder to capture on film. How big are these waves?
2025-08-31 23:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I am SO pleased to be able to invite you to Richmond Yacht Club, in the East Bay, tomorrow (Fri 29th Aug), from 6pm until 9pm.
Tally Ho will be on the dock next to the clubhouse from 6pm, an...
2025-08-28 18:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In which we are joined by our new crew members (including some familiar faces), we leather the mast hoops and blocks, we upgrade the watermaker and fill the boat with provisions, we visit a beautif...
2025-08-23 17:16:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Since we announced our arrival in San Francisco, I've been overwhelmed with kind messages, photos, opportunities, and inquiries. I love hearing from people, and I'm incredibly grateful for so much ...
2025-08-21 23:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really sorry but due to circumstances out of my control we have had to CANCEL the meet-up event today.
Unfortunately I have to ask that people do not come to see us in our current locatio...
2025-08-20 19:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
What an amazing end to this first passage of our big trip South!
Sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge was spectacular, and thank you so much to all the people who escorted us in and took pho...
2025-08-19 23:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post
After our first big ocean passage, we made landfall yesterday at Drake's Bay, around 25 nm NW of San Francisco - we decided it would be good to get a full nights sleep before sailing into San Franc...
2025-08-18 18:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Great conditions - ticking off the miles to SF.
2025-08-16 20:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Track Tally Ho; https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...
2025-08-15 20:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, we are on our way South!
Obviously there's a slight production-delay between reality and the videos that I release on youtube - but we actually left Canada a couple of nights ago and we...
Moored with Argonaut II in Victoria just a few days ago! So great to see our friend Nic and this beautiful boat again before we head offshore.
@MV_Argonaut
2025-08-11 22:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In which I mount a Starlink dish on top of a radar (against everybody’s advice), we sail off the anchor and all the way to Gabriola, and Tally Ho gets new hatch covers made by our friend Simon. <...
2025-08-09 16:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This female Belted Kingfisher must have a taste for wooden boats - she perched on the bowsprit for several miles as we motored through light-winds the other day. We will miss the beautiful wildlife...
2025-08-05 18:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In which I have to repair the hybrid-drive, Marit returns to the boat, and we sail (with topsails!) into the beauty of Desolation Sound.
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Music;
hjpierce - Written in Milk<...
2025-08-02 18:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Repairing the hybrid diesel-electric system on Tally Ho and thinking about if I should have gone with simpler systems on board. What do you think?
I'll be addressing this question - and the r...
2025-07-31 19:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Photo; Kurt Arrigo / ROLEX
Fastnet 2025 is underway! The fleet started from the Isle of Wight yesterday morning and some of the fastest multihulls have already rounded Fastnet Rock and are on...
2025-07-27 21:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post