An outing on Golden Vanity with Tom Cunliffe

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This is a video about Golden Vanity, a yacht built in 1908 by a Brixham fishing boat yard. She's had a number of lives, as you'll hear, and she's now embarking on a new career with a switched-on crowd running her. Me and my mate Steve the Camera had a grand day on board meeting the crew and sailing the boat.
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@patricklaine6958 3 жыл бұрын

I'll second that. Godspeed to Golden Vanity. May the next 100 years be as rich in adventures as the first.

@SVImpavidus 3 жыл бұрын

We keep bumping into you Patrick, watching the same channels. Proof you can be a traditionalist yet embrace change. Sail Safe mate. Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.

@peterwynn4088 5 ай бұрын

Amen!

@user-wz2qe2pv6r 8 ай бұрын

I love that line "The wisdom of vernacular man" never a truer word....what a gorgeous vessel.

@AdventuresofanoldSeadog 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the video.

@RogerRoving 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely done Tom. I was mate on GV one passage, long ago, and I feel the same fondness.

@toddsumner3216 3 жыл бұрын

My two favorite KZfaq sailors in the same spot. Would love to see Roger and Tom do a some filming/sailing together.

@nigellucas560 3 жыл бұрын

I recall that the first 100 year are the hardest. What a great story and what great references for previous owners. All the boats that I have bought have come to me in silence, not a remark or a log just the trace of wear and hull scrapes. The brokers notes have been the only historical reference. But when I sail them I get shouts and enthusiastic waves that suggest my new boat has a popular history. Great outing.

@ingeebeltoft 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom. I following you. You are the most lovely person around. I sail up north in Norway. Vadsø my hometown. Lots of nature up here. Sailing soon to Isle of Man. Visiting sailor friends. You look so kind. ❤️

@guyfitter3006 2 жыл бұрын

Bloody brilliant. Only thing missing was a pint of Tribute.

@newenglandergray3002 2 жыл бұрын

Another nice video! Force 4-5 with only a finger on the tiller -- just a lesson from the past to be enjoyed today.

@felipebelaustegui7801 4 ай бұрын

Ver nicel Beautiful sailing kutter. De spirit of the sailors is a Way of life. Sports is a way to make Dreams visible in our lifes.🙂🇦🇷

@1258-Eckhart Жыл бұрын

What a lovely film, I could watch another hour of that. Tom Cunliffe has a knack of bringing everything to life, well done.

@seanicky 3 жыл бұрын

What a great new owner, a perfect match! So pleased to see her fresh from a refit and being actively used as she should be. Nice one Tom 👍

@mrstephenthomas100 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nick, really enjoyed your series, even though you made them some time ago! The series with the Sharpie in, that is.

@martinlayley9324 Жыл бұрын

Sailed on her as mate some 30 years ago: a laying-up cruise from Brixham to Galmpton. The jib was much larger then and came back past the mast. Tacking was a single-handed affair: tiller over, walk up the windward side, loosening the shrouds, walk the jib past the winch as her nose went through the wind and then walk back to the cockpit on the new windward side, tightening up the windward shrouds and get back to the cockpit. Took between 1 & 2 minutes.

@johnhumphries6751 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed watching this. Many thanks 🙂

@johnsmall9729 Жыл бұрын

Godspeed, Tom

@sailingcitrinesunset4065 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful boat! Nice video

@eddiehughes371 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting piece of history, I grew up in Mumbles 👍

@josephlai9759 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely, lovely, lovely. It is truly a happy thing sailing so beautifully in the wake of the wind and timeless wisdom then and now.

@1240enzo 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Tom for showing us this boat from another age that is just as relevant now, if not even more so than when she was originally launched. I thing of beauty, history and soul. Simply lovely.

@saintnick1552 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@davidbolduc828 3 жыл бұрын

Hard to beat a boat with a soul. I've got an old wooden one that I'm restoring and they do get under your skin and become part of you.

@justintaylor375 3 жыл бұрын

What great stories surrounding that boat! Love you describing her as an organic thing, Tom. Glad to see an really neat gal like Louisa out sailing on her.

@djowen5192 3 жыл бұрын

May she bring joy to the next generation of sailors.

@olivierbolton8683 3 жыл бұрын

Another little gem...love your shows Tom...fair winds!

@esvarwyn 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely glorious, thanks Tom and team and crew of Golden Vanity!

@philippendlebury4518 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a sailor but I love your you tube vids - full of knowledge, passion and good old English humour. Salt of the earth TC - God bless you. Might even buy a boat myself - God help me if I do.

@Mike7O7O 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a most enjoyable story Tom. She wears her history well.

@msf60khz 3 жыл бұрын

Great that Charlie has saved Golden Vanity, on which I did my Day Skipper. Happy memories of a beautiful vessel.

@ivok496 3 жыл бұрын

I was in the lucky position to sail on her as well with the same amazing crew (skipper and mate) the day after, albeit without Tom Cunliffe. It was such a pleasure to sail her, we had a force 5, gusting 6, on The Solent, and she sailed so easy, gave so much confidence, you could really trust her. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

@mrstephenthomas100 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you very much Tom. Excellent dose of inspiration as things start to get more "normal"!

@richardfoster5851 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant Tom🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

@anthonyfuller6740 3 жыл бұрын

What a beauty! Thank you for sharing Tom

@bobbutcher7725 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful story, well told and left with the slightest tear in the eye.

@Pilkibi 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful tonic viewing this was. Beautiful!

@J2onton Жыл бұрын

Very nice video. Not a sailor but like the content. Thanks.

@kentmeredith2945 9 ай бұрын

Your storytelling is so effective, I think you could convince the most resolute landlubber to give up terra firma and head to sea!

@tomriley5790 3 жыл бұрын

Well done in restoring her! Impressed by someone single handing Golden Vanity Accross the Atlantic, impressed that his food lasted for 80 days! Hope that she has many more miles under her keel after the refit!

@SVImpavidus 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent stuff Tom, nice edit too. Sail Safe mate. Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.

@captaintoyota3171 3 жыл бұрын

Good to see Tom back on the water after 2020. Love these old boats

@nickwebb9290 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom for that uplifting post. She’s such a wonderful yacht and now looks superb, a credit to Charlie Tulloch and all those involved.

@growingknowledge 3 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to see your ideas Tom. Really brings the joy.

@858493 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom once again thank you for such a wonderful adventure, l love how you bring these old girls to life and l particularly love how you involve the human element, we've all seen old boats tied up and or at berth, but getting the human story across brings them to life in so many other ways, I would have loved hearing you yarn with that old mate at the pub and share some sea shanties with us....once again thank you Tom regards Doc from Down under.

@mikewillis2934 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful story, I love it when all the dots (connection) join up. Thanks for sharing Mike

@MrCrabbing 3 жыл бұрын

Thought I hadn't seen here about here for a while, nice to see she's doing well.

@theyacht40 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Tom lovely to see these old gaffers still sailing ,Cant wait to see Leos boat the Albert Strange designed Tally Ho finished ,Not sure if you have been following the exceptional restoration he has embarked on .A truly amazing young man , Nice to see Patrick Laine watching also ,Another exceptional Sailor !!

@saltybuster946 3 жыл бұрын

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever, as Keats said. Thanks for showing her to us, yours Aye, Buster

@reloadncharge9907 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent episode, thank you! Andrew

@tomburgess4741 3 жыл бұрын

Godspeed to Golden Vanity ...

@Njord78 3 жыл бұрын

The Golden Vanity brings back fond memories! I sailed her during the Tall Ship Race in '96 for a week through the Finnish archipelago. And yes a ship like her goes under your skin. Now I am a shipwright and so happy to see that she is restored again!

@KenDavies-qv3fs 3 жыл бұрын

Good as always, Tom. Thanks Ken

@tiptopup602 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@sardinho 3 жыл бұрын

So happy to see her restored so well. She did look a bit sad a couple of years ago when she was up for sale. Did my RYA Competent Crew on her in 2009 out of Brixham. What an experience!

@bjbrown 3 жыл бұрын

A great story and thank you for sharing. I am a reformed sailor and love a good boat!

@SebCarro.OccPsychology 3 жыл бұрын

Priceless

@SirPrancelot1 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks Tom.

@iainlyall6475 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful. thanks tom

@lukequinn6195 3 жыл бұрын

Love it

@Lanxe 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you didn’t get left in the lowland sea Tom!

@AnnInghamlife-goals 3 жыл бұрын

I love Tom on old gaffers

@914va 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom!

@andrewtrip8617 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that .Tom .

@humanafterall2076 3 жыл бұрын

Wooden ships and iron men. What a stunning little ship. Nice report on your part Tom, very enjoyable.

@MegaBoilermaker 2 жыл бұрын

This vessel was also re-fitted in Totnes in the late 80's by Colin Beer.

@darz3 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom , hope we get to see the other gaffer in a later video

@patrickjoneill5836 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful boat, great story. Ah the Elephant Boatyard! - and not a mention of Howard's Way! But then , this is a channel for real sailors. I spent a good few hours there looking at boats for sale.

@2011Matz 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Golden Vanity in Fayal, Azores in 1970. I thought her old then.

@ukusagent 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Cunliffe, Interestingly The wooden or iron spike in rope splicing is a Fid If memory serves Me right, I learned rope and cable splicing as part of My apprenticeship

@alexandergstettner9820 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom lovely, I can only agree: Less computers, more handcraft-ship, and LISTENING to the experienced ones! This is something I am missing nowadays so strongly in the school of my kids, especially now in this difficult times it would be so immense important, to stop internet home schooling with immediate action!!! and teach the kids value that they really need for life. Handcraft, using the logical brain factual thinking and most important SOCIAL skills! This is what I try to give my kids on their way, but internet and mobile phones make my life not easy... look after yourself kind regards from Austria. Alex

@truthalwayswins3078 3 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned 1909, I remember thats the year the Waratah disappeared off the coast of South Africa. With the search history penned in book form by a gentleman David Willers who stays in Anglesey, Wales. "In Search of the Waratah"

@allen5362 3 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, have you taken a look at all at the Tally Ho Restoration Project? Seems like it might be of interest to you as a restoration of an Albert Strange design from a similar time period. Its been beautifully documented.

@Tanrestednready 3 жыл бұрын

Good Tube

@bryrensexton4618 3 жыл бұрын

👍!!!!

@alvessail4718 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@johnmcalinden3615 3 жыл бұрын

She's a boat that makes the heart race. Thanks for bringing these little videos to us, Tom. ps what was the name of the sailing school that's running her now?

@FirstClassSailingUK 3 жыл бұрын

First Class Sailing

@richardfoster5851 3 жыл бұрын

Tom have you seen the family doing “ship happens “on KZfaq, I think you could be a great educational help to them👍

@davecharlesworth8176 2 жыл бұрын

As someone without a nautical bone in their body is there a reason why some boats have red sails as in the Goldern Vanity and some have the white sails you see on the tall ships. Is it cosmetic or for a practical reason such as different sail cloth? Great presentation as with all your videos.

@johngriffiths118 9 ай бұрын

It’s a preservative applied to traditional sails to extend their life

@MARTINA-gc3tq 3 жыл бұрын

would have liked to see below Tom.

@rayred74 3 жыл бұрын

she is a lovely boat as long as she belong to someone else

@livingladolcevita7318 3 жыл бұрын

what have you done to your left hand? have you been over doing it, thumpin out the bass on your piano? Nice one Tom.

@HeidiLandRover 2 жыл бұрын

Wooden boats - there's nothing quite like 'em.

@FixNewsPlease 3 жыл бұрын

mmd is a Goler

@ike7933 3 жыл бұрын

Proverbs 30 verse 18-19 There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I do not understand: The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, And the way of a man with a virgin.