Thanks Darren. I love a nice run! Tom

Yes he always seems to have at least one standout funny line in each video Always hilarious in it's understated delivery

Perhaps we'll get to raft up one of these days!

The past few weeks I've been rafting up to your book Expert Sailing Skills from Wiley Nautical publishers. Loads of information backed up with a wealth of photos and illustrations. @@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

Cheers Norman. Nice to know you're out there.

You are very kind, but I'm lucky to have that ability in my genes. I come from a long line of preachers and lawyers!

Thanks Gronock. Good to know you're enjoying the vids and who knows, you may get a gaff-rigged boat one of these days. Tom

My pleasure. T

Me too mate!

Thanks. I'm working on it. Watch this space......

Momentum. A long keel's distributed weight relative to fin keel's centralized weight tends to reduce hobby horsing.

Too right. I wish I were out there right now, but my boat's in Denmark and I'm in the UK. Hoping to join her in July sometime. Tom

Thanks mate.

No chance of that yet. T

Thanks Antonio for watching. Pleased to have you on board. Tom

Its probably a variable pitch propeller.

HI Izaac Very good to hear from you and well done on fixing up the boat. I hope 'Hand Reef and Steer' will answer your queries, but if not drop me a line at tom@tomcunliffe.com. Good luck! Tom

So pleased to hear it Robb. Hope you like the others as much. Tom

I've just been writing an article for Classic Boat about lines, including a Falmouth Quay Punt. Not sure when it'll be published, but think you'll find it interesting. Thanks for your comments.

Will much look forward to that. Strangely, I was just re-reading one of my favourite books, one of my Uffa first editions: "Uffa Fox's Second Book" (1935), chapter 17 - looking at the lines of Thomas White Ratsey's 'Dolly Varden', an Itchen Ferry type (the Solent fishing type), not quite similar lines to the Quay Punt! But a beautiful sailing boat nevertherless... Cheers, William.

Thanks for this Jonathan. I'd love to see your board. I agree with every word and would never sell these boats short. One has to be even-handed however and the better modern yachts do have quite a bit going for them, so long as one appreciates the short-falls too. Tom

Sounds like a real dog Adam. Tough luck mate!

Oh no! Poor you. I love those Nordic folkboats. I plan to have one in my old age!

Thanks Martin for your kind remarks. As to putting a modern rig in a hull like that, it's pointless. A well-sorted gaff rig is easy enough to sail. The hull is not as close-winded as a fin keeler, so the main advantage of bermudan rig is wasted. Gaff has its own advantages, too numerous to mention here and all these would be lost for no gain. The modern rig would be easier to handle, but the losses in performance would never be worth it. Besides, we don't go sailing because it makes sense, do we, and a boat like LB is just so much fun. Have a read of my book, 'Hand, Reef and Steer' to whet your appetite. It's available on www.tomcunliffe.com. Cheers Tom

Well, that's it in a nutshell. It's horses for courses! Personally, I'm with you. I prefer the long keel with an easy motion. The performance isn't bad at all, and to compensate for the difficulty in docking I have a bow thruster. Tom

Good image Bill! Tom

A very good year!

Very interesting. If you read my book 'The complete ocean skipper' you'll see that I agree with much of what you say in the way of progress. Of course speed can improve safety, but you can't get away from the fact that the quay punt is going to look after her people long after they have run out of the stamina to look after her. The whizzers won't be able to do that. Coastal sailors can stay out of trouble using electronics. Very fast ocean yachts also to some extent, but I'm afraid that the rank and file are going to get clobbered sooner or later.

The over reliance on digital technology is a double edged sword. Overall, it has generally improved safety on boats (especially, as Tom mentioned, on coastal passages) for the average weekend sailor. However, it creates many unsafe practices which can and will eventually come back to bite...... many new sailors will never get to a high level of seamanship because they haven't learned the skills and are certainly not practicing them; many experienced sailors are losing their skills because of the 'use it or lose it' principle. The biggest danger is complacency! It is what kills or hurts most humans, whether sailing, driving, using power tools, etc. Like Tom, I am a yachtmaster instructor, emergency procedure trainer, advanced first aid trainer and former government boating safety officer - you would not believe what I have seen, usually because of over reliance or lack of understanding on the limitations of digital technology. A classic example is the number of cruisers crossing the Atlantic or Pacific without so much as a few small scale paper passage charts as a back up; they are not keeping proper logs or understand old school dead reckoning...... because they are just staring at the chart plotter and watching the vessel follow the digital course line to the next waypoint...... then boom, lightning strike (the trade wind milk runs are in the tropics, after all), total loss of electronics. The backup battery powered handheld GPS will give a Lat/Long but that is useless if you don't have a last known position plotted on a paper chart - you have no idea where you are nor can you plot a new course. There is a reason why yacht insurance for the Pacific crossing is very expensive! Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a techno-phobe; I loved the convenience and ease of use navigating with my iPad Navionics app for 18 months in the Caribbean a few years ago. But I use the technology as a tool and not the be all and end all, always with plan A and B in reserve and the seamanship to implement them. A last anecdote: I recently watched a KZfaq video of a chap piloting the inside passage of Fraser Island, Australia. He was in a beautiful new million dollar catamaran. Now this coastal passage has current and constantly shifting channels & sand bars, there is not a lot of depth. It is one of those coastal areas where you take the chart with a pinch of salt and don't rely on the nav aids; where you steam ahead cautiously with eyes well focused (or ideally with a crew stationed high on the bow); where you are looking intently for changes in water colour or subtle changes in the way the water is moving indicating the edges of sand bars. Using prudent seamanship........ This chap however, wasn't doing that. He had the auto pilot on and eyes down viewing Navionics on his IPad! Blissfully unaware that in this case, any chart is fairly useless. And no doubt, when he gets stuck on a sand bar with an outgoing tide, he will be blaming everything and everyone else, other than his own foolishness at happily spending a million bucks on a boat but not a few thousand on a coastal skipper course (or even better, yachtmaster) which would have taught him some good old fashioned piloting and coastal nav..........

@@markmuller8829 A school course will never make a competent seaman. My brother has an ocean going first mates ticket, any size ship, he smashed a lot of my plates and mugs on my boat by making a sudden turn while a steep wave picked the boat up from behind. Forget the bullshit money scamming courses, find an old sea dog to learn from.

@@grancito2 never said a sailing course makes a competent seaman, only practice, experience and miles under your keel can do that. But a good course and teacher will accelerate your learning and skills and teach you how to be safe, probably the most important thing. I've been teaching for over 30 years and not just sailing. Also, skiing, hang gliding, emergency procedures and more. You're kidding yourself if you think a good course is bullshit, although there are plenty of bad teachers, for sure. As for old salty seamen, some know their shit and some never learned a thing. It depends like most things.

Mark Muller I couldn’t agree more.

Konsort is a good first boat. Built strong, lots of room below and not a bad sailing vessel. Not a blue water cruiser in my humble opinion. More of a coastal hopper, but if you are new to sailing that is what you need to learn the lines. The Westerly Owners Association is a great source of info. Also the ybw forum.

Thanks for the info. It's my dream to sail from Ireland or England to explore the Mediterranean! Would that be to much distance for coastal sailing? What be happy to hear your opinion on fin keel konsort?

@@directorstu Thanks for the info. It's my dream to sail from either Ireland or England to explore the Mediterranean! Would that be to much for coastal sailing and what do you think of a fin keel konsort?

@@michaellafferty9456 Going to the Med via the canals would be doable in a Konsort . Going via the bay of Biscay is a bit more iffy . Check out the Wildlings KZfaq channel for the canal route to Med

What are you talking about 🤔

You are the prejudice.

(I realised while typing you were probably being sarcastic but I just had to complete my train of thought and post anyway) Prejudice by definition means "judgement passed while lacking experience or understanding of the matter" and given how quickly you notice the boat falling off to leeward with a stalled out finkeel I would hazard a guess that Tom Cunliffe has at least spent enough time on a finkeel to have firsthand experience of that. As for the other part of the comparison his cruising on traditional gaffers is pretty well documented.

@@Flakzor123 No it was just a joke, taking the mickey. I was not belittling anything he said.

@@billbogg3857 I figured as much but I was too busy being impressed by my ability to string together coherent sentences before my morning coffee =)

@@Flakzor123 Same with me .You notice my now archaic usage of a past tense which derives from some obscure group of languages whose name escapes me. Perhaps from the Hindi like pyjamas :)

Yes, they did. They outgrow her when their second son was born. Lady B should see them through well into teenage years.

It does look like that, but actually that is a feathering propeller to minimise drag when sailing. Here, it's in the fully feathered position, hence the apparently coarse pitch. Well spotted by the way!

Very sorry you were disappointed Henry. My channel isn't really about giving hard, empirical information. You can get that from my books. It's more about introducing folks to aspects of yachts and sailing they may not have thought about.

I love your chatter. Informative jovial discussions are what get's me thinking. I can read and analyse like anyone but having a broad view is what I lack wrt to boats. So Tom, you are appreciated by others.

Sorry you found the video boring but......you always have the off-switch option! As a matter of interest what would you like to watch (no cheeky reply please). Have fun afloat this summer. All best Tom

You had better read this: "Seaworthiness: The Forgotten Factor20 Sep 2007 by C. a. Marchaj"