Pilot Cutter Championships 2019

Footage from onshore and onboard of the Pilot Cutter Championships in Fowey and St Mawes 26-28 May 2019

[@aeophylus]

Thank you so much for not adding music to this clip. Just the sound of wind, waves and stillness is good enough

[@nickviner1225]

And that cockerel

[@ThePorridgeGobbler]

What magnificent boats.

[@bungfupanda8936]

Smithy's Boatshed is turning into one of my favourite KZbin channels, for a variety of reasons, footage like this being just one, but the absolute gem is Iains no nonsense explanations of whatever he's doing coupled with his bone dry aussie humour that I'm sure goes right over the head of many viewers. Thank you and keep up the great work! 👍 Kind regards from the UK

[@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998]

Wow, those are beautiful cutters, all of them!

[@thomasarussellsr]

Beautiful footage. Both relaxing and exhilarating at the same time. That's a weird combination. My heart beat went up as did my mood, but my breathing relaxed as did my muscle tention. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video. P.S. and thanks to KZbin for the suggestion of a video on this channel. I've been watching from the oldest trying to watch all of them from the beginning. SUB'd yesterday and bindging...

[@andrasvarga4066]

Szépség verseny...

[@MVO884]

Great footage. I sailed with a old dutch ship as a deckhand on a flat bottum boat with side boards, but this is another level. Thanks for the upload.

[@k9six185]

Well crap....now I need one!

[@SCCIT-jq6jh]

And a pirate crew!.

[@thomasarussellsr]

Yeah, I need a boat I can opperate by myself while the wife just rides along, she won't help, I know that for sure. So nothing this big, though that would be amazing. Something live aboard, that a single person could opperate, with power back-up, that could traverse the oceans, would be ideal. Then, I'd just have to learn how to sail, before taking off for far away lands.

[@flat5sharp11]

Gorgeous boats!

[@jayfigg7981]

What pretty sailing ships! I have seen Schooners that are larger, but those just yell fun!

[@gregnicholls8347]

Just like a steam engine conveys it's strength and beauty stationary or in motion so do these magnificent craft. Any amount of this KZbin just to pacify the soul.

[@utoob8876]

lovely boats, lovely wee film

[@nobreighner]

These sail amazingly well in light air.

[@alancadieux2984]

Nicely done!

[@willienolegs8928]

The gaff rigged schooners are beautiful! Thanks for filming this race.

A schooner has two (or more,) masts, the forward mast shorter or equal in length to the after mast.

[@q.e.d.9112]

These are cutters, not schooners.

[@nickviner1225]

@@q.e.d.9112 I figured someone would correct that comment!

[@adam8642]

Beautiful Boats.

[@josephinebennington7247]

Fascinating and wonderful, but what happened off the coast between start and destination? Nothing?

[@SmithysBoatshed]

Pretty much. Light breezes, fleet separated, nothing much happened.

[@malmotumotu5218]

Hi I wonder if pilot cutter Candy lights in these races?

[@andrasvarga4066]

Szépek!!

[@peterrobierto7435]

Where is “Kindly Light”?

[@russellosborne8795]

Beautiful

[@TermiteUSA]

Those upper sheets could do with a snatch block of sorts.

[@jayfigg7981]

They have them, just not the design you are probably used to.

[@thebentley71]

Do these pilot cutters have winches like modern sailboats

[@SmithysBoatshed]

Most do not.

[@alastair81033]

All Armstrong winches I think

[@q.e.d.9112]

They have multi-part block and tackle on most of their running rigging. ETA they have also have a windlass up forward for raising anchor.

[@jimjonrs3932]

Dual Popeye winches.

[@bungfupanda8936]

Mostly Handraulic winches, tried and true design that's been in use for millenia. 😉

[@paulputnam2305]

“Are we clear?” “ Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha” 5:00 💪😎👍.

[@thomasarussellsr]

"Ahhhh, maybe" ah ha ha ha!" Love that reply.

[@thomasarussellsr]

Also... "Never again am I going to make a slippery boat for someone else..." alrighty then, get better deck shoes, or some form of texture in the deck finish?

[@railfan439]

Leo Goolden is restoring the 1908 pilot cutter TALLY HO. Check out his channel: Sampson Boat Co.

[@nickviner1225]

He is remaking an exquisite piece of furniture at the same time. I have never seen such good boatbuilding skills.

[@MikeAG333]

Wow, the editing here nearly drove me away, with constant cuts back and forth. Was this done for the concentration-of-a-goldfish generation?.......because I don't reckon too many of them are into pilot cutters.

[@SmithysBoatshed]

Yes I was trying to follow modern trends, and I agree it was a mistake. Cheers.

[@dougmacqueen1679]

"Concentration of a goldfish." Well put.

[@limosalimosa]

editor on drugs?

[@DavidJones-ds6et]

Nonsensical editing, cutting back and forth was annoying I stopped watching 2.43 .

[@thomasarussellsr]

Then you missed the best part, when they finally stayed with the sailing on open waters.

[@dugldoo]

The editing is not creative, innovative or exciting, just distracting and annoying. The event deserved better.