The Boats That Built Britain - The Pilot Cutter - Part 2

Many consider the Bristol Channel pilot cutter to be the finest sailing boat design ever. Fast, seaworthy and beautiful to behold, the pilot cutter is the perfect combination of form and function - a thoroughbred perfectly adapted to a life in one of the Britain's most treacherous stretches of water. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe explores the life of the pilots and sails a perfectly restored cutter to find out just what drove these men and their wonderful machines.

[@American_Jeeper]

And now, thankfully, Leo Goolden is bringing one of these famous beauties, Tally Ho, back to life.

[@nedlooby7419]

Ah tally ho is a gentlemens yacht....

[@eddiej9733]

As beautiful the cutters might be, the way Tom has brought their story to us....just sublime

[@briankay3380]

I’ve am watching the rebuild of Telly Ho, and these stories helped me understand the final journey!🇦🇺🦘🦘

[@christiankoellner7542]

Most people already know after the 1st episode, that the name is TALLY HO.

[@zerofox7347]

@@christiankoellner7542 Most people already know when they see a “predictive text” error and don’t feel the need to embarrass someone.

[@danjames4086]

Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't know one end of a boat from another. I took a trip on a sailing ship, and now I'm hooked on learning the differences between different craft. This series, and Tom's enthusiasm, are helping me to appreciate the depth of maritime history here in the UK. Fantastic stuff.

[@swiftmatic]

BEAUTIFUL boats! Love the history, too. Tom Cunliffe really makes it come to life. You guys just got a new subscriber ❤

[@garybarker9139]

I've been watching Tally Ho and Arabella. These cutters were some amazing ships and if I could get one, it would be the dream of a lifetime. Thanks Tom for your information and insight to these wonderful ships.

[@mitfreundlichengrussen1234]

Thx a lot for making these jewels available. Cheers... and yeah, based on your expertise it would be great if you could cover the Tally Ho Project....

[@SailorAllan]

I think this series was made like 15 years ago and aired on BBC.........

[@rvail136]

I did a fair bit of sailing as a young man. I was a foretopman on on a topsail schooner that was part of Key West to Martha's Vinyard races some years ago. Those two pilot cutters were beautiful boats.

[@leemarsh4473]

Superb viewing on a Sunday after dinner. Looking forward to more.

[@BoatYardBuilds]

And Monday ! More coming.

[@AfricanFlightStar]

Wonderfully presented Mr Cunliffe, great job, thank you! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼☺️

[@leonardodigrazia9758]

After this video I will have finished watching this series;( Thank you so much.

[@805gregg]

A modern Bristol Channel Cutter is still made I have hull #42 designed by Lyle Hess it has the lines and speed of the original but in 28' on deck, 38' overall length, called the Bristol Channel Cutter, very fast and seaworthy, one of the best boats ever made

[@bighim04]

And I have a Lyle Hess 30 foot all wood BCC, and she is truly a beauty, most particularly in moderate to heavy weather - she is totally in her element, and comes alive and flies…

[@TJLovering]

Thanks. Great grand dad was a channel pilot out of Cardiff with family in Pill and Padstow. Consequently I have really enjoyed your videos. Being dinghy sailor I will look out for a tourist trip on a pilot boat. I hope I am lucky.

[@PillSharks]

What was the family name which was from Pill? I take it you mean Pill, Somerset? Many Pill families left Pill for piloting work when the Welsh ports really started to take off.

[@TJLovering]

@@PillSharks great grandmother was a Shepherd and great grandfather was a Lovering

[@toddsumner3216]

Thank You that was spectacular

[@bradbusch9585]

Well done So very interesting

[@blastforth]

Glad I discovered this series. Thanks.

[@cricciethcastle5077]

13.03 is Mumbles Head from Swansea Bay. Brings a lump to my throat for wonderful sailing days long ago.

[@obiwanfisher537]

Wow, Cutter Pilot seems like it was an interesting career.

[@jeffbigbear1766]

...but why board the ships when they can simply follow the cutter? Thanks for a great video

[@BoxTunnel]

Excellent programme, even if I was brought here under false-ish pretences having searched for Jolie Brise!

[@R.E.HILL_]

Colin Archer... that's someone who could build a pilot/rescue boat..

[@michaelfinnegan1542]

Thank You.

[@BoatYardBuilds]

And you !

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Wish you had added more about the set up and handling of the rig.

[@vicoastdog]

A lovely find, as it complements Cuncliffe's beautiful, three volume "Pilots" series of books - which I'm lucky to have on my bookshelf.

[@mitchellstadnik752]

Wonderful, talley ho

[@corvavw6447]

Pilot kotters❤hoef ik niets meer over te zeggen 😊.

[@arturasstatkus8613]

Georgeos👍

[@ditzydoo4378]

The 1910 Gaff-Cutter "Tally-Ho' designed by Strange and being rebuilt from the Keel up by Leo Sampson. Go to his KZbin channel at: kzbin.info

[@stevenk6638]

I want to see more about the boat and less about the history !

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

👍

[@HMS1Blake]

Beautiful. That slightly spoon bow on Olga, and the sheer line, and the counter an'all. Makes my teeth tingle.

[@sp10sn]

Fast, maneuverable, and sails shorthanded. So what characteristics make a bermuda sloop the popular, modern sailing vessel rather than a pilot cutter?

[@kenvoita135]

Its great too see that some people will never grow up

[@3-DtimeCosmology]

Now I know the full story in detail! A small accomplishment of a sort.

[@terrycavender]

Beautiful out of the water, and in, especially under sail!

[@CapnCody1622]

I’d listen to Tom Cunliffe narrate someone cutting grass.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Check out Salt and Tar an American couple building and living on a Gaff rigged Ketch and Ruth is indeed a catch.

[@richardgiles2484]

I was privileged enough to know John Heart, who has recently passed away. But sure, he's on a nice delivery trip 😉

Perhaps the sand banks shifted a lot, otherwise, why wouldn't you just navigate from the charts and tidal current tables? Really, in today's world, pilots are used only because they are legally required. GPS and constant updates about shifting sandbanks make pilots obsolete, in the practical sense.

[@OgamiItto70]

Must've been like Heaven and Hell. Heaven: you get to go sailing every day in a fast, handy, seakindly boat. Hell: you *_have to_* go sailing every day in your precious, expensive cutter in all weathers and then take a dinghy ride from your cutter across to a ship (again, in all weathers) in order to justify even leaving your anchorage.

[@garydflatt4904]

We would never go to sea on Sunday. It was an unwritten rule for tuna fisherman in San Diego, California.

[@bruceweber2361]

Thanks for this. Many thanks indeed.

[@udovchjustin5941]

Loved that!

[@youmanskids]

looking forward to seeing Tally Ho sail!! go Leo!!