Sailing the Tenby lugger with Tom Cunliffe
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Lugger sailing is different. The sail is attached to the mast only by the yard which carries it aloft. The front bottom corner (the tack) is hooked to a forward part of the boat and the sheet which controls it all is attached to the back corner (the clew). And that's it. A modern sail can press a boat down, but a lugsail lifts her as it drives. The replica of a 100-year old lugger - and the historic lifeboat - in this video live in a museum in west Wales. The place is something of a homespun inspiration, so click in and join me.
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Just to give credit to those that built this boat, the students of the MITEC school of boatbuilding deserve a shout. From researched drawings the boat was lofted full size on a purpose built floor in a shed on the docks in Milford Haven. From the lofting the backbone was constructed, much of this was done with basic hand tools and taught skills. All fastenings in the main structure are bronze with forged heads (more student skill). The rivets are indeed copper. All of the hull, deck, sole, bulkhead, thwarts, gunwales, rudder, tiller and knees were student made and fitted. Their skills and enthusiasm should be applauded.
Well done all. Great job!
What a spectacular result!
Thanks' for this Richard. Truly a grand job and real vision to start it up and to se it through.
Tom’s face just completely lights up when he is sailing, and most of all in the classic boats!
I have never been on a sail boat and most likely never will as I get seasick on ferries. I love the history, I love the technical stuff, I love the idea of sailing. But by Jeez, Tom C's enthusiasm is infectious.
Excellent leader and educator too, as demonstrated in this video.
You should get an experienced yachtsperson to take you out on a voyage. Estuary and a steady breeze and you should glide like a leaf on a pond. At least "tick it off" as something you have done and know what it feels like.
What a pleasure to watch!
I read about sailing since my childhood, Chichester, Slocum, it is about time to build own boat and to give it a go...
thanks for another excellent video, always varied and interesting. your passion for sailing is infectious.
can't wait for the next one
Lovely lugger. Thank you for this Tom.
Love to see you ‘working’ these classics Tom.
Another great video!
All the best
Harry
Thank you for yet another excellent video and I look forward to the next one.
God bless all sailors, but God love and cherish the lifeboat men. (And women)
Thanks Tom! Your videos are always delightful! And what a great boat!
Tom thanks for sharing this experience with us. Small IS beautiful -and clearly fun!
Loved seeing that old lifeboat- my great grandfather was a minesweeper skipper out of the Haven - sunk off St Anne’s in 1917 - I wonder if that old lifeboat was there to try to save them? Thank you Tom for another great little video
Lovely little boat. And a fascinating price of history.
Thanks to you for visiting Wales specially west Wales.
Thanks, that was brilliant
Another good reason to visit Wales - beautiful boat and looked like a dream to sail
Excellent - what a lovely boat. It would be great if you did some videos on the Galway Hookers - quite an active culture there of building and racing and keeping some of the old ways alive.
Thanks Tom, from Canada.
Great stuff. Thanks Tom.
Back in 83 I spent many evenings assisting in restoring a 1934 Hampton one design. The only power tools were a huge planer and a table saw. We used hand augers for drilling
Lovely. In did enjoy that! Thank you
good to see you back.
In 1953 there was an old man in Tenby who had an amazing story. As a younger man he had been swept overboard from the Tenby lifeboat which was a pulling/sailing vessel. They managed to get alongside but we’re unable to get him aboard, so they strapped a rope around him and tied him off alongside the boat. He was there for over an hour by the time they got him back to the harbour. He had lost consciousness by then.
Dad said he’d been drinking for free on that story for forty years or more.
Always love your video's Tom, I'm a subscriber and this first one fo some time that's popped up on my screen
Love it 😀
Lovely, your videos are always such a treat.
Mizzens are a bit of a mystery to me, I'd like to know how they are sheeted
There no better feeling blasting along with sheet in hand I'm happy in my career I get to run many different boats I've gained so much experience had a short solo delivery just yesterday on the Chesapeake bay in Virginia
The Tenby Chugger as it chugs along !!
I shall have to visit that museum. I live in Wales.
As you said Tom the foot of the mizzen looks like it needs to come down. It looked like it needed to be flatter with the belly of the sail further forward in those gusty conditions. Just like the ones we had today as a thunderstorm passed by us today as we dropped the hook in Alanya, Turkey. Sail Safe mate. Ant & Cid
Good to hear from you, chums! Is the Pooch still with us?
Nice to see jeckells sails out in force. I didn’t realise they exported them that far out? I used to have a set on my Norfolk punt, many years ago…
Lug sails are the future in particular the dipping lug.
The Cleddau is a wonderful expanse of water from Pembroke Castle up to Llangwm.
"Very nice 👍👍🇺🇸"
Champion stuff Tom, many thanks for this.
Any bugger's lugger!
My Galion 22 will be a dipping lugger once I get the money.
👍!!!
what's the lizard for?
A short length of rope with a hard eye spliced into one end. The other end
can be hitched to another rope or chain, say, and by passing a further rope
through the eye you can get the purchase of a single whip for a good heave.
It may also prove useful as a temporary Fairlead.
I love Toms videos, especially when he sails an antique or replica. However I have a constructive suggestion. On any boat, especially a small boat, a hand held camera can't get the whole picture. I felt it was claustrophobic, not seeing the whole boat, how the sails were trimmed and worked together. So I say; have a second camera on a chase boat or a drone. Intercut that footage with the stuff on board. That way we could see the whole boat, get a since of her scale and how she sails.
Hi Johnny. You're right of course, and wouldn't that be nice. However, that's not how it is for most of these videos. Roz and I do them 'pro bono'. We aren't professional film makers and we edit them ourselves. We don't get paid, we don't charge and we do have other work. We do it that
@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns I really appreciate your and Ros's generosity. Maybe some young sailor / filmmaker could volunteer to pitch in as a B roll camera person. Generosity breeds more generosity doesn't it? In the mean time thank you so much.
It's not a replica just a new boat.
😊 p̶r̶o̶m̶o̶s̶m̶
Qriozum
@ 7.07minutes you are telling the skipper where to steer 🤷♂weird
He told the helmsman where to steer, skipper and helmsman are not always the same person.
You are a handsome man Tom, but it woulda been nice to getta glimpse of how the main was setting.