Great video. Trying to watch videos like this to educate myself as seriously considering buying a boat. And Hamble is actually the nearest Marina to me. ⛵️🚤

For a solo sailor looks like this single line reefing system is the best, excluding the furler main cause I don't think it's very common.

Do you offer advanced kits for say a US Critical Care Paramedic that have point of care labs and etco2 or advanced airway?

I just need a boat now so i can try it ⛵

Hi Tom, what are your thoughts on bilge keels? I’m looking at buying a Snapdragon 21, are you familiar with these? Love your videos, thank you 🙏

Need some sort of a Bimini top and it’s perfect

Another stellar video. We were given a swinging mooring on the outside bend of a largish tidal channel...flippin eck, fun and games at full chat during half tide.....still, keeps the bottom clean....

O dear, another chump wearing spectacles on top of his head, it's like people who start a sentence with 'so'. I just turn off.

As an American Anglophile, I always find Brits totally charming. Thank you for great content!

Don’t you have that backwards? You said green in the right returning to harbor.

Really nice! are there any close up shots of the control panels? (flybridge and observationdeck) Can't wait to see some quality pictures and/or videos of those to see how they turned out :) Anyway: cool video!

Great explanation ❤

And now, try this alone.

Thanks, very insightful! Like Tom, I also have a lovely moustache, and was wondering if there could be any discount on berthing at one of your marinas please? Thanks !

„For not everybody it’s easy, so let’s make it easy.“ Thanks! That should be the attitude of every experienced sailor who explains things. You don’t talk down to beginners just because they are beginners.👍

no, those water-based "renovators" are just colorants... you need oil to properly insulate it against further dagradation and eventual damage. teak can take a lot, doesn't mean it SHOULD. just treat it as you would any other wood - with kindness

I haven’t got a boat and easily get sea sick. Yet I absolutely love watching Tom and these videos. Such an absolute pleasure to have people as such in the world and sharing their knowledge. Thank you !

Very helpful! Thx

What type of buoy/beacon would show this FI (4) 15s 28m 12m ?

Good Video explanation but no Rocna type ?

I want this man as my grandad

I agree with never jumping off a boat and never throwing a line. The best method depends on boat: size, keel type, windage, rudder setup, bow thrusters, number of engines, cleat positions, crew size and skills, wind direction and strength, current direction and strength, orientation (stern or bow to), space, access channel, etc. Although the video is good, getting to know your boat and starting with easy landings working to more complex ones is the key. Always stay in control. If there is a plan B, you are chancing it. That said: I prefer if available midship cleat, fender work, springs and intelligent engine usage.

I’m a cruising instructor. I would never ask a crew member to jump off a moving boat. There is a real danger of slipping or tripping and getting a leg between the pontoon and the moving boat.

I didn’t understand a word of that

Beautiful view

I'm all about electric motors for cars, boats, bikes, etc. But I don't like the rhetoric that they are zero pollution or zero emissions. This is simply not true and misleads people into thinking that they are not polluting when they in fact are, albeit a LOT less than combustion engines. Even a purely solar powered system has some amount of pollution associated with it. When these inaccurate statements are made it gives anti-electric proponents ammunition in their arguments against electric technologies. Electric is more than good enough to stand on its own merits.

I wish Tom would narrate my life so at the end of it I could have a laugh listening to the way he puts my actions into his clever words!

That's a nice boat from Hamble Point Yacht Charters. Great video by Tom as well.

This guy talks a lot and teaches a little. If people already understand his technical nautical terminology they don't need him.

Please go through how I must react with northern and southern cardinal marks, I understand that with east and west I have to keep to that side. Thanks

What an event!

You are a lambswool experienced master buddy

Start on a boat that needs it ! That boat is damn near perfect to start with …..

This is great! So helpful for me to plan my rowing instructors course. Thanks.

Well never sailed in my life which is a shame as it's always something I wanted to do but even this which I'll never do I found very satisfying to listen and watch.

Thank you learning a lot, I am 62 saving for my first 30 footer, up to to 40ft. Again thank you so. Best wishes from Australia

Not really a very effective video for novices. Using lots of sailing jargon without giving time for people to understand doesn't help. I was stopping and starting like mad as I tried to remember what a luff is and what sailing like a shoe means. (Good, or bad?) Also it's great to see a man work, but I can't see what's happening with the sail. The rope he's got in the winch is not visible anywhere on the sail. So I can't see the 'effect' of what he's doing. So I'm sorry to disagree with so many people but I have no clue what is happening really except someone is winching a lot.

yes excellent video other reefing guide will get me killed out there

Never eased the topping lift after reefing 🤔?

So easy to follow.

Great videos, so eady to follow.

Tom, would you show us how to determine /indicate the length of anchor chain being lowered ? I painted mark on the chain say, every 5m ....but the colour paint will be lost surely after a period of time.... Any advice ?

Your showing green on rite, I thought its red right return in the UK ?

Can one solo sail this boat? 🤔🤔

Hi Tom I especially enjoyed your video as it speaks well to both neophyte and seasoned boater alike. You do a wonderful job of comparing and contrasting boat types , given the brevity of your presentation .Tom the the Contessa 32 is a sail boat for the ages. Like the Alberg , she lacks an expansive interior but that is the point to be made. The boat is a child of our oceans. And yes the Contessa 32 has circumnavigated. I am an old salt like yourself and have come to realize that like ones mind , so goes the boat. They are inexorably entwined. Tom , your speak of beam and comfort but let us not forget self righting moment. There is today , a sad lack of understanding of hull design , ballast ratio , hull speed ratio , form displacement verses self righting. And most galling of all , a child like dependance on electronic navigation. Paul in Canada

Your sails aren't up! What is this?

Hi Do you do a video where you back into the same place?

No snubber, but since it's just for lunch, no need.

Should have included the state of tide during his briefing , with particular emphasis on rate and direction of the tidal stream . This is especially important when berthing in the River Hamble !