Tom Cunliffe
Contributor at Sail Magazine
Sailor, writer, TV presenter, speaker. Also on https://t.co/jOZoSpVn8Q and https://t.co/RI1TFzaxN2… #sailing ⛵️
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1 week ago |
classicboat.co.uk | Tom Cunliffe
Tom Cunliffe explains an Atlantic sail & trouser crisis…There’s no calling like the sailor’s for rich vocabulary. So many of our day-to-day phrases have passed into the universal vernacular that we’ve lost count. ‘Three sheets to the wind’, ‘taken aback’, ‘between wind and water’ the list goes on. Some phrases are more specific. At a hustings in our town recently the main protagonist was ‘brought up all standing’ by a shrewd heckler.
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1 week ago |
sailmagazine.com | Tom Cunliffe
Moving aft from the foredeck on a windy day, have you noticed a sort of no-man’s land between the mid-deck where coachroof grabrails keep crew safe, and the cockpit where all one’s troubles should be left behind? Clambering around the spray hood can present a challenge, especially if, by some oversight, you’ve somehow ended up on the “downhill” side of the boat. A pal of mine came up with a truly seamanlike solution to this.
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2 weeks ago |
yachtingworld.com | Tom Cunliffe
Tom Cunliffe introduces this extract from Steve Pickard's tale of cruising through the canals of France – and an ambitious plan to drop his yacht's mast solo TAGS: Great SeamanshipTop stories The late Steve Pickard was the very essence of a cruising sailor. Never a high-aspiration man, he did not round Cape Horn or sail the Northwest Passage. Instead, he operated relatively modest craft in Europe and the Mediterranean.
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1 month ago |
sailingtoday.co.uk | Tom Cunliffe
In recounting the tales of the many successful and failed voyages to the far north, Tom Cunliffe says in Arctic sailing lessons can be learned from the likes of Kipling…As I strolled through the throng at the Gosport boat jumble in search of that ever-elusive bargain, I met up with my pal Ella Hibbert. Ella plans to circumnavigate the Arctic (northwest and northeast passages) later this year on her own. She has a proper boat and is as comprehensively prepared as she can be. We wish her well.
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1 month ago |
sailmagazine.com | Tom Cunliffe
This will be of no interest to anyone sensible enough to sail a 20-footer, but if your yacht is a long one, you’ll have had similar experiences to me. You’re coming into a strange berth—head-up box berths are the worst—perspective has foreshortened, and you’re unsure how far you are from the harbormaster’s woodwork. I recently asked one dockside loafer to call it out. “Ten feet,” he announced. On I came, and a second later I T-boned the piling. It turned out he’d been looking at the waterline.
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