Tom Cunliffe sails on Overlord.
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- čas přidán 11. 11. 2019
- Tom Cunliffe sails aboard a 58-foot yacht built for the Luftwaffe before WWII, brought to Britain in 1945, now owned and cruised by a very active club called Offshore Cruising Club. For more information on them go to www.sailoverlord.org/
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I started watching this and couldn't believe what I was hearing and seeing. I knew nothing about Windfall Yachts but did know my late father was often reciting, yet again, another of his wartime stories. We heard it many a time over the years so much so I included the story in his eulogy. My father was a chippy in the RAF and at the end of the war put his hand up when there was a chance to nick some racing yachts from the Germans. He often regaled us with his story about the trip through the Kiel Canal and then punching out into the North Sea in heavy weather. Unfortunately the yacht his was on had suffered due to lack of maintenance and things were snapping and breaking so much so they turned round and headed back to where I don't know. Your report on Overlord made everything real for me and I only wish my father was still alive so I could have shared it with him.
Just watched with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye........makes lock down bearable.......wonderful, thanks.
Thanks Peter. I'm pleased it helped you escape from lockdown for a short while. Tom
I get that with most of Tom's videos, Hess great story teller.
God what a fine yacht. That keel is just sublime. Incredible history and just the most wonderful film....if it wasn't for you Tom, I, and I'm guessing many others, would have no idea of this vessel and the history of it. Good on you for your passion and for giving people the chance to understand and appreciate the history of yacht building.
Lovely vessel. You can't beat a pretty boat. Seaworthiness, speed, ease of handling and all that - that's all ok; but those are the barest minima! Beauty should be top of the list! At 9:08 I like the quarter prop. And underwater lines. A typically excellent Tom Cunliffe concise description concerning the Swedish and German 1930's Square Metre Rule, versus the International Rule. I love the wholesome lines of the German Square Metre boats, and the American CCA Rule yachts. Three cheers for the Offshore Sailing Club to keep this vessel at sea. Uffa before, and Blondie Haslar after the war, sailed Square Metre boats. Many thanks Tom. Best wishes.
I like the details aboard - fores'l on hanks! Nice bit of deck to stroll about on (Tom should approve that it doesn't appear to be screwed down, as no dowels apparent...). Nice reefing lines on the main. Not too much weather helum by the looks of it, and of course a balanced hull. Solid boom gallows. A seamanlike toerail. What looks like a nice seat on the counter, which we know Tom likes! Lovely boat of course. Great video.
A great subject, Tom. Very informative as ever and hats off to whoever chose the music; very evocative!
Excellent Tom! The psychologists say we "hunt in our dreams" as primitive survival skills, but I would say we "sail in our daydreams" even during the working day and walking along the street!
I've sailed on Overlord. I have vivid memories of rowing that tiller back from the channel islands overnight. Hard work to sail compared to a modern boat but very beautiful and comfortable in a blow.
Only one word - Wonderful!
As usual, thank you Tom!
That is a classic sailboat. A beautiful story about a beautiful boat. Thanks for sharing.
Brings tears to my eyes. Watching a beautiful boat under full sail.
Just gorgeous under white canvass, not some horrible black kevlar.
very enjoyable Tom .thank you
Hey Tom , i always enjoy your videos , best wishes from your fans here in Australia !
Marvelous Tom, thank you for this golden nugget of yachting history!
Thank you Tom....The first time I saw her...my hair stood up! And again, the hair stands watching her once again!!
Simply beautiful!
Tom, i love your videos and the wisdom you share. Top marks for the production value of this video.
Thanks Tom. Great story and a wonderful tribute to the club.
Once again wonderful. Loved the the DATA sheet while still in video. Thankyou.
Stunning what a beautiful boat thank you for sharing this with us ❤️👏😁xx
Outstanding Tom! Terrific story and... I have a soft spot for that Tiller
Marvelous just breath taking thanks so much
B E A utiful...what lines...old boats are splendid works of art...thanks for the awesome cruise, Tom...cheers and Favorable winds!
One of your best videos, and that's saying a lot.
Beautiful boat and great history. Thanks Tom as always a lovely and informative video. Long may she sail the seas. Andy UK
Thanks Tom. Very lovely boat!
Agreed, excellent sound work and music, remarkable camera work, the stuff of the best movie makers. Great maritime history and a record to keep for the century and beyond. Do it some more!
Love it! ....love it all.
One of your best videos, Tom. Well done! A fantastic mix of history, heritage & storyline brought forward to the present day. The members of the club continue to make this beautiful vessel relevant, sailing her as she is meant to be sailed!
As I sit on my narrowboat, doing some maintenance, I love to share Tom’s enthusiasm and communication, whether it’s about a beautiful yacht or his old Bentley. It would be great to have some more of his boat yard series of restoring boats. Thanks Tom
First class as usual, thanks Tom
You're a class act Tom! Thank you for featuring this yacht with it's WW II history.
Fantastic music choice. This vid is truly a piece of art.
I wish I wish but alas as a disabled person I could not handle this sort of craft but at least Tom makes me feel I'm there with him. I can feel the wind in my hair. Great video tom keep up the great work.
Thanks Billy. If you liked this video check out the Boatyard Channel czcams.com/channels/s8P4az2K0yvorksrJJbyPw.html for some more sailing videos. Then stand by for my Christmas Special on this channel. Don't forget to ring the bell, so that you'll be notified when it's on. Tom
Not wishing to blow smoke up your exhaust pipe - but - that was a ‘masterpiece’. BZ to you and the team for this production.👍⛵️
What a gorgeous yacht,.. at any age that craft is beautiful!
Great video Tom!
Beautifully done, our thanks to you both (Tom & Steve) for this wonderful tribute to Overlord 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼☺️
You're very welcome. I'm fond of this one and watch it myself every once in a while !
What a wonderful video :-) Great editing also...well done indeed !!
An excellent production Tom. Great video, Interviewing, Scenes, Backdrops, Music and Narration. So good to see youngsters getting their feet wet and Overlord doing what she was built to do. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put this together. Sail Safe. Ant, Cid & the Pooch crew.
A wonderful film, so nicely put over as always Tom, thank you
Many thanks Nick. Really pleased you enjoyed it. I've another film coming out for a Christmas special about Jolie Brise, so keep watching! Don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell, so that you'll be alerted when it's up for viewing. Tom
Lovely film, made even better by the music, and of course the narration.
Superb!!!!
What a beauty, thanks for sharing 🌊⛵
Greetings from beautiful island 🏝 of Kauai. Great story.
Nice one Tom. She looks a lot more comfortable than the RAF's windfall 50 sq m "Sperling" (40ft c 10 Tons) I sailed in the 70's out of RAF Mountbatten, reported to be Goering's he would have never fitted in the bunks. There were still a couple of 100 squares operating out of the joint services sailing centre at Hornet in the 70s and perhaps beyond.
excellent thank you !
She's a beauty. Great video, Tom 👍
Lovely to see Overlord still going strong. I knew Tony Venables quite well. We used to go over to St Vaast on the Cotentin quite often - Tonys favourite cross channel destination. We had a lovely cruise on her ; Lanzarote - Agadir.. Agadir - Porta Santo then a hop down to Madiera. We were supposed to do Agadir - Madiera but, couldn't make Madiera.. Then we went to, I think, San Miguel in the Azores. Then there was a crew change and we flew home.. That was 1991.. Tony had a Garmon GPS. First one I ever saw.. Good job as we had 3 days and nights of complete cloud cover between Agadir and Porta Santo, also a fair breeze and those big swells that roll down the coast of West Africa. Fabulous!
Nice recollections Andy. Good to hear about sailing with Tony. Thanks. Tom
What a beautiful yacht. Love the 3/4 rig. Just like my old K class I owned years ago.
Tom! What a wonderful film. Thank you. I knew nothing of the 'Windfall' yachts until I was on my way home from Shetland and Norway in 2016 via the Skagerrak and Kattegat and the Canal. I had a couple of days in the British Kiel YC. It was about to close! So ... just made it. 'Overlord' reminds me a little of 'Undina', a boat I looked after for her owner for two years. She is a Philip Rhodes design and was also built in 1953 by Abeking & Rasmussen. She still had wooden spars. She was a lot of work! ATB James
czcams.com/video/cmuV1EVW14M/video.html V poor film of 'Undina' in the Stour.
Lovely film thanks Tom
Thanks Robert. It was a privilege to sail on her. Tom
Sailing west to Falmouth this summer I saw her rig through my bins, she was coming straight for us. I knew she was something special long before our paths crossed. I took a few pics as she slid down our port side and subsequently Googled her. Fascinating history and a beautiful yacht. Fairwinds.
Beautiful as it gets!!!
Wonderful storytelling as always, Tom.
A big thank you for the camera, sound and editing crew as well.
(I don't know how you managed to cut the wind noise that well - good stuff!)
A pleasure to watch! 🧡
I'll take that thank you! I'm afraid the camers, sound and editing crew was just one chap - me. Wind noise is always an issue with sailing and film-making but it's all about mic type and placement - not that Tom needs any microphones to be heard! Glad you liked it.
How beautiful was that !
Looks Superb...
Fabulous!!!
So beautiful and a great video. there is one of these 100sqm in Portamao boatyard in Portugal half restored but no work done on it in past year. Just covered over. Out of funds i guess. I saw pictures of it taken a few years age and it was stunning outside and inside. It sunk in the marina unfortunately. There was a 30sqm abandoned in a boatyard in Limerick Ireland. Abandoned by the owner who did not have the where with all to do anything with it. The yard owner cut it up and burned it. Sad to see this happening. Thats life i guess. Keep the videos coming Tom. I love them all. Cheers.
Thanks Denis for the kind remarks. I'm sorry though to hear about the other sqm boats. Always sad to see wooden boats uncared for. Tom
58 foot tiller yacht. Marvelous
I sailed a windfall boat when in the RAF. Sperling. Lovely.
What a treat, isn't it. Tom
Tony Venables daughter was my brother's girlfriend and 8 of us were invited to spend an Easter weekend sailing her to Poole and back. I knew Tony quite well and only 2 of the 8 of us actually knew how to sail, I was a kid on the Worcester and learned the ropes there and another was from the Conway. I remember scudding across from Cowes to Southampton, I was on the tiller and had her pitched over and flying, glorious. feeling. Annie Venables was pretty handy too, Tony just loved having a couple of guys who could actually sail with the crew. He directed things mainly sat in a stern quarter or standing in the companion way. Lovely man. I have quite a few photos of that weekend. Goering was on its sister, The Alamein.
Lovely boat Tom !
She might not be the fastest, but I believe the hull shape the most beautiful thing ever put to see.
Good too hear your dulcet tones Again Tom .
What a marvellous day that must have been 😎
One of the best.
1:07 My goodness, what gorgeous lines ...beautiful vessel. What's the music from (sounds like it has to be from a British TV series!)? Great subject matter as always Tom, you knows how to pick 'em!
I had the pleasure of sailing to Ostend and back in "Sea Feather" another windfall class whilst in training at H.M.S. Ganges in 1964.
Later in the 60' s Sea Otter was put up for tender whilst I was at H.M.S. Vernon. I put in a bid of three thousand pounds but was told "no one of lesser rank than a commander was going to win the bidding!
Back to "Sea Feather" She was forty two feet long had a beam of nine feet amd a draught of nine foot eleven. As her engine was only able to be used as ballast ( non running) she had to be watched in the waters around Harwich and the East Coast in general.
Her planking was teak. She was also reminiscent of a torpedo... fast and very wet.
That makes my blood boil! Highest bid should have won it! Closing f@£king ranks! How many houses could you have bought with £3K in 1964?
In 1968 my sister and new husband paid £3250 for a newly built 3-bed semi in a reasonable area, but out of town, in the Midlands.
Fantastic boat, great history behind it - I would love to be part of that club and sail her - just that I am too far away. Greets from Lisbon, Portugal!
That's a shame, but maybe one day you'll get the chance to join her. Meantime you can follow her or join the club at www.sailoverlord.org/. Tom
When I was in the Falklands soon after the war there my personal vehicle was a Mercedes Glanderwagen. That was a windfall for the Argies. Unfortunately they had not actually paid for them and so Mercedes would not sell us spares to keep them going. We did have a way of getting small parts though. The poor old bus was well on her way to ruin in the rough terrain. I guess after nearly 30 years when I was there she has long gone to a rusty grave.
Good bit of history
Wonderful yacht, terrific story. I wonder if any other of the Windfalls are still sailing. More power to the club.
Info here www.marabu.website/windfall-news
Dale Skidmore And Flamingo is still sailing, in Germany I believe?
Reminds me of the book Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
My favourite old boat is the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter
As you probably know, I've got a soft spot for them! Owned one for 15 years. Tom
Thanks for that Tom, took me back to my old racing days in the Solent. Tell me, that strange mushroom device on the foredeck, is that an anchor windlass? Looks like it might be a cover over a spigot for the handle? Classy vessel indeed. Graham
It is - or perhaps more accurately, was - the anchor windlass. We heave the anchor and chain up by hand - it's much quicker!
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interesting to watch the motion of the yacht through the waves. Very "right"
Loverly! Great video, Tom. Thank you. Back in the 60s I sailed several times on the windfall 100 sq metre ‘Gladeye’ which was run at that time by the five Guards regiments. I know they sold her in the 70s, and I never saw her about when I worked as a YMI around the Solent in the 80s, but do you happen to know if she too is still sailing?
Overlord is the only 100sqm Windfall yacht still sailing in the UK. The Maribu syndicate was disbanded some years ago. Flamingo is still sailing in Germany.
Geoff Sheddick Thank you for that. I expect Gladeye has gone to rot somewhere. Pity.
@@peterhuskinson4111 Not quite :-)! After a quick google - looks like she was sold to a consortium in the 1970s, berthed in Inverness then sold again in the 1980s renamed Eisvogel (German for Kingfisher) and looking at the brokerage page was still being refitted and invested in in 2011 before being sold again, so I'd imagine she's still going. (Thought I'd see if I could track her down on Marine Traffic but she doesn't seem to be there - either not listed or perhaps the new owner changed the name again)
I trust that once the UK settles their Brexit bill, they include this beautiful war booty...✌️
Very nice clip, thanks for posting.
I for one would have liked to see below deck!
The aluminium mast doesn't bother me. She's a living boat, not a floating museum. And she's absolutely gorgeous.
Pity they don' t paint the mast white then you would not notice it so much.
@@billbogg3857 That's a great way to have it looking shabby very quickly. It would create work.
dunruden. No I had a wooden boat with a painted aluminium mast and boom . I t lasted at least ten years and looked far better as a result.
@@billbogg3857 Fair enough. I sailed with aluminium for 40 years and it didn't bother me. I did learn early on that varnish and bright work were to be avoided unless you wanted to make your boat a full time job.
dunruden Yes totally agree. I put on desk olje 1 with a cloth. .Didn,’t look bad at all.
Fab!
One of those german windfall boats is moored next to mine in port stephens Australia!
Really! Wow. I knew that a few went down under. Which one? Tom
Im not sure her name. Shes painted dark blue and had a teak deck put on in Hawaii some years ago. A very nice British fellow called Rod owns her and told me about her history.
She deserves a classic yacht quality varnish done! That's neglect!!!
The boat in the photograph with Goering has wheel steering, whereas Overlord has a tiller.
No way post 1930 Goering would have the agility to get around the tiller :P
Should be taken to Heligoland Tom.
Love the video Tom music was excellent touch! Though...is she a sloop? cutter? I dont think you actually mentioned what type she is.
A Bermudan rigged sloop [one foresail]. A cutter has two foresails.
Great video Tom, but too bad it does not have the original mast and boom
2:01 classic demonstration of leeway
Perhaps but more likely 3 knots of Solent Spring tide.
what music is this?
She is is like a very slim iceberg, and I do not mind her having a more modern rigg as long as she can move freely.
are there any other of the yachts left ?
Yes, there are. A handful or so. Tom
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The open design „Seefahrtskreuzer“ class to which I assume „Overlord“ belongs was created by DSV (Deutscher Seglerverband) in 1927 and came in sizes from 30 to 250 square meters. In the Abeking & Rasmussen „Baunummern- Buch“ (taken from Swante Domizlaff's book „Abeking & Rasmussen“, 1996) I find for 1936, the year „Overlord“ apparently was built, five entries of 100 square meter „Seefahrtskreuzer“: #2980 Neck III, #3007 Albatros V, #3015 Austernfischer, #3016 Pelikan, and #3017 Ibis. The latter three were owned by Reichsluftfahrtministerium, and appropriately named after sea birds. They were located in Kiel as was Neck III, owned by Deutsche Werke (Albatros V was in private ownership in Berlin). So I may assume that the later „Overlord“ is one of the four Kiel 100 square meters confiscated at the end of the war. I assume that the present owners could verify which one is „Overlord“.
In the 1960ties I sailed and raced Abeking & Rasmussen „Pirat“ dinghies and a Dragon and knew some others, so I learned to appreciate the superior building and material quality of that shipyard in that time.
If you watch the video, it tells you it is Pelikan
Abeking & Rasmussen were well known for 'build quality' in the 30's, and in the post-war period too - quite a few American boats, designed by Sparkman & Stephens and Olin Stephens were built there. But what is interesting is that five expensive 100 Square Meters were built there in 1936, amongst all the other boats built there - think of the production rates, that's impressive!
@@johnnym9760: Impressive indeed. I counted 108 entries for 1936 in the „Baunummernbuch“, the numbers reaching from 2975 to 3123, so maybe 40 more were built. The builds range from 3 m tenders over olympic classes (12 sqm Sharpie, „Olympiajolle“, Star, Dragon, 6 m R-Yacht), „Seefahrtskreuzer“ from 30 to 150 sqm up to 37 m navy vessels. After the war the build numbers continue, beginning already 1945 with simple flat bottom work boats and, amongst others, some boats for allied officers.. With my father's Dragon from 1961 they had already reached #5739.
+Micheal Woernle - thank you very much for the interesting info - your Dad and a Dragon - we love a Dragon, very pretty, fast - and built by A&R! Excellent.
I notice that you did a brief, 5-minute video about the German Blight that referred to the marvelous The Riddle of the Sands. Why not do a more lengthy sailing commentary on the book?
What became of the rest of the windfalls?
Brian Giles They were wooden yachts so time would have taken its toll for the majority - all were built more than 75 years ago, and they probably had a hard life in the hands of post-war British servicemen - that’s probably why the founder of the Offshore Cruising Club was able to buy Overlord for the value of her lead keel!
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What’s the piece of music?
Apologies - only just seen this. The piece is called 'Ellegy' by Yuri Sazonoff and published by AKM Music.
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I wonder how many of these are left, still sailing?
There are a few Johan. There's a very good book called 'The Windfall Yachts' by Michael Cudmore, if you can find it, which lists all the yachts. Tom
@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns There goes my book budget...:-)
Lovely boat, great video and story. But if you take something that doesnt belong to you it's not a windfall, it's theft.