An outing on Golden Vanity with Tom Cunliffe

[@patricklaine6958]

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

[@SVImpavidus]

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]

Amen!

[@ingeebeltoft]

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. ❤️

[@felipebelaustegui7801]

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.🙂🇦🇷

[@guyfitter3006]

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

[@RogerRoving]

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

[@toddsumner3216]

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

[@newenglandergray3002]

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

[@1258-Eckhart]

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

[@johnhumphries6751]

Really enjoyed watching this. Many thanks 🙂

[@dhouse-d5l]

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

[@johnsmall9729]

Godspeed, Tom

[@richardfoster5851]

Absolutely brilliant Tom🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

[@nigellucas560]

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 The brokers notes have been the only historical reference.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.

[@eddiehughes371]

Interesting piece of history, I grew up in Mumbles 👍

[@philippendlebury4518]

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.

[@AdventuresofanoldSeadog]

Loved the video.

[@sailingcitrinesunset4065]

Beautiful boat! Nice video

[@djowen5192]

May she bring joy to the next generation of sailors.

[@olivierbolton8683]

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

[@saintnick1552]

Thank you for sharing.

[@seanicky]

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]

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

[@anthonyfuller6740]

What a beauty! Thank you for sharing Tom

[@martinlayley9324]

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.

[@tomburgess4741]

Godspeed to Golden Vanity ...

[@Mike7O7O]

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

[@reloadncharge9907]

Excellent episode, thank you! Andrew

[@J2onton]

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

[@mrstephenthomas100]

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

[@KenDavies-qv3fs]

Good as always, Tom. Thanks Ken

[@msf60khz]

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

[@josephlai9759]

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]

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.

[@esvarwyn]

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

[@bobbutcher7725]

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

[@SVImpavidus]

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

[@justintaylor375]

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.

[@Pilkibi]

What a wonderful tonic viewing this was. Beautiful!

[@tomriley5790]

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!

[@growingknowledge]

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

[@ivok496]

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.

[@tiptopup602]

Lovely

[@kentmeredith2945]

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

[@davidbolduc828]

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.

[@SebCarro.OccPsychology]

Priceless

[@mikewillis2934]

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

[@MrCrabbing]

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

[@theyacht40]

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 !!

[@858493]

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.

[@AnnInghamlife-goals]

I love Tom on old gaffers

[@darz3]

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

[@Lanxe]

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

[@nickwebb9290]

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.

[@bjbrown]

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

[@captaintoyota3171]

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

[@914va]

Thank you Tom!

[@Njord78]

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!

[@andrewtrip8617]

Thanks for that .Tom .

[@SirPrancelot1]

Wonderful. Thanks Tom.

[@saltybuster946]

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

[@sardinho]

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!

[@lukequinn6195]

Love it

[@patrickjoneill5836]

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.

[@iainlyall6475]

beautiful. thanks tom

[@ukusagent]

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

[@Nixontheman]

Good Tube

[@allen5362]

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.

[@davecharlesworth8176]

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]

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

[@humanafterall2076]

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

[@truthalwayswins3078]

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"

[@MegaBoilermaker]

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

[@2011Matz]

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

[@johnmcalinden3615]

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]

First Class Sailing

[@richardfoster5851]

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

[@livingladolcevita7318]

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

[@alexandergstettner9820]

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

[@alvessail4718]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@bryrensexton4618]

👍!!!!

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

would have liked to see below Tom.

[@rayred74]

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

[@FixNewsPlease]

mmd is a Goler

[@HeidiLandRover]

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

[@ike7933]

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.

[@harbourdogNL]

6:05 Sorry, Tom! But listening to your bit about the billy bit I just can't help myself from thinking of this: dai.ly/x3v9z74

[@FixNewsPlease]

That's where Trump brushes his dentures.