Sailing to Tahiti the Wrong Way... from New Zealand (Sail Surf ROAM)

Join Team Roam on the sailing adventure of a lifetime. Sailing the World on ROAM a Home Built 48 foot Catamaran.

This one is quite different for a SSR clip. Our new friend Bobby joins us for our biggest sail yet from New Zealand to Tahiti. He uses the opportunity make a video about what its like for us to live and sail full time as a couple on a sailboat.

Liss and I would like to thank Bobby for sailing with us and making a video of something that we could never have done ourselves. Too shy!!

Cheers
Mick

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[desertdreaming]

Really enjoying the slower tempo, Great narrative and video!

[deemacvee]

Love your channel. Love what you do. This video is understated and brilliant. What a passage ! ROAM performs so well and you built her!!! Love the boom (wish I had one like that).

[Suprdave]

Best sailing vids on YT. That 48 Footer looks perfect...

[GaryTakacs]

Loved Ep 23! Congratulations on your longest passage to date! Looking forward to more episodes!

[ZoneTelevision]

First 🌎 🌬 ⛵️ ⛵️ Great to see married couples working together so well as a team. I love how you cover all the particulars of what the wind is doing, sails etc.

[rustie]

G'day Team Roam,  great to see some more of your travels. It must be an amazing feeling sailing the ocean and making landfall in a boat fabricated with your own hands, it is a wonderful  achievement . With trimming the assy you could try a tweeker about amidships to pull the sheet  down a bit, this can change the shape a little and help stabilise it. as a rule of thumb we use a tweeker when sailing broad and when we are shy it become redundant as the clew comes further aft. So it's worth playing around with it to see what works best on Roam. cheers Russell and Malene.

[cyprusdaedalus]

Love the new format and being able to get a much better feel for your personalities and the actual day to day situations (Weather, Speed, etc) you're sharing with us. Way more interesting and involving! I can't tell you how impressed I am that you built your own Spirited cat. Would love to hear more technical tidbits thrown in on why you made certain design/equipment choices for your boat. Currently considering a Schionning Arrow 1500 or Spirited 48.

[bluewaterdreamin]

Great episode guys. It still seems strange seeing my home port in videos like this one, even the boat in Opua using our mooring in the background when you left, 'New Zealand Maid'.

[MrSharkphoto]

Glad to see you back on the water. Now let's find some surf!

[stevecrombie]

Good to see you out and about again. Can't wait for more videos. As always, thanks for sharing yourselves with us.

[bendixon]

Goodonyah guys. I can see Schionning being excited about your vlogs. Missed the chance to build one when in Launceston thanks to marriage issues. Very happy for you fellow Taswegians.

[p.t.anderson]

Another awesome video guys! Thanks for sharing!

[CatamaranImpi]

Well done you guys - I really loved this video - not an easy passage and you did it well :)

[chrisjarvis]

Awesome episode, super chill production and tunes 🤙
Cheers from SV Breezy 🌬⛵️🌏

[malcolmdelamere]

Another great/safe passage under your caps...well done to all

[svdeguello]

Nice work ROAM, we took on the same passage in a like minded craft 2 years ago, Nelson NZ to Raivavae FP. Lots of upwind work. I'm sure you had a fun season in FP, hope to see you on the water. p.s. Love your boat!

[benfromn.z]

Wicked edit Bobby!
It was about time Roam put a video out, we were all getting withdrawal symptoms, and love the shrek movie quote Mick!
Yeow!

[terrygriffiths]

Yeah, great to see you back out sailing. Re your question about the kite - a pole with just a bit of downhaul wouldn't have helped stop the wave roll knocking the wind out of it?

[seailive]

nice to see some confident seamanship on youtube not much of that around, but then you are New Zealanders, cheers.

[californiakayaker]

Glad to find you guys, looking forward to the experience. Wonder what would happen if you could find audio from some dolphins which would attract other dolphins, underwater microphone recorded, then playing back on the underwater speaker all sailors have, lol Incidentally, you make it look so easy ....