Perhaps not one for catamarans! Beautiful day after the storm! The Baltic at its most beautiful!

Sailed this area for close on 20 years, many times to Sandhamn, and you've taught me a nice new spot - good on you Tom, thanks for always keeping it interesting!

Top man

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Luke. Tom

Breathe in !

Good God, be it Polyester, Wood or Steel those rocks will treat them just the same. Brave man!

Great yarn, thanks very much. Yes, variety! Nice and narrow - lovely looking spot - great fun. Reminds one of the western entrance to the Eilean Dubh Mor & Dubh Beag anchorage. Or the narrow entrance to Cullipool on Luing, but that channel you had there looks narrower! And not having a nice rising tide makes it worse. Great video Tom & Roz - thanks for sharing. Hope the wind turned fair for you the next day, and you got underway ok.

Well done Tom, you're the man in my book.

@justintaylor375

3 жыл бұрын

You wrote a book about Tom?

This looks like Eilean Dubh, Kyles of Bute. As a novice skipper I wriggled nervously in there to find some big fat power boats. I was a bit disappointed at that then realised that they drew very little compared to me. I had previously been on a yacht which the skipper bravely took us up Loch Tarbert on Jura and up to the upper Loch. That was amazing, the keel bumped a rock or two, gently though. 55°58'41"N 5°51'59"W worth a look.

Another belter, Tom. Cheers!

Thank You Tom&Roz, that was awesomely fantastic‼️ 💪😎👍

That's tight.

Brilliant Tom! Not quite the Bahamas clear but really clear non the less and what a wonderful place to have anchored! Cheers Warren

Lovely scenery Tom. It reminds me of Galicia region in North West Spain. Thanks for sharing, cheers!

Oh my word! And I though Beaucette in Guernsey was a tight squeeze! Looks like wonderful cruising grounds there Tom, thanks for bringing them to us!

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Nice comment Faoin. All things are relative, of course, and there's often not much wind first thing in the morning in Baltic Sweden which gives you a better than fair crack of the whip. Compared with cannoning into Beaucette in a stiff breeze with a big tide running and having that turn to make inside, it's a piece of cake. Tom

Wow! Nothing like entering Fowey, LOL! Thanks.

I seem to remember a boat advert that showed nineteen sixties bikini clad girls laid about those rocks and a Great Dane 32 tied up to a tree. At the time it shocked me to see a boat so close to the shore. Oddly the fluorescent bikinis did not surprise me at all. I was still on the edge of my seat watching your boat slide through.

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry to report Nigel, no sightings of flourescent bikinis or even of topless beauties baking on the rocks, but it was 0600. I expect the girls all mustered after breakfast! Tom

There’s a fabulous place like this on the west coast of Scotland called Acairseid Mhor, on the isle of Rona, just north of Skye. Best anchorage I’ve ever been in, sheltered from absolutely everywhere. But the entrance was almost impossible to find, until you’re right in it. Greatest pirates’ den ever!

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

It's a few years since we threaded our way into Rona. You're right about the entrance - seems like it's not there at all until you're in it. Is my memory correct that there are some painted white marks? Or a cross, Ros thinks? I have a lovely photo of Constance in there, shot from up the hill. Happy days. Tom

@PaulBKal

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Cunliffe - yachts and yarns yeah, that’s the one. A white painted cross, from memory

A tour would be great

A sunny day loads of those

Tom that was a tight inlet. You have balls!

My heart is still racing

Slowly does it. I bet theirs a few hulls been scraped along their though over the years. What a stunning location to cruise though I have to say.

beautiful..living the dream

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

And can't wait to get back to that dream and away from the nightmare! Tom

@leepotter7422

4 жыл бұрын

@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns... I hear that...until tomorrow Tom

Tight squeeze! Sail Safe. Ant & Cid xx

Fun video Mr Tom! Perfect, my 3' draft would see me into that cool anchorage, however guess my 24' beam might prove problematic.....Thanks, Andrew

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Andrew At least if you squeeze in, it won't take you long to zoom round to find a hole that's 26ft wide. Tom

Wow!

Great video, Tom. We entered a few similar anchorages after we met in Västervik and they can be very tight for long keelers.

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Simon. You do have to breathe in a bit don't you! Grand meeting you and the good ship. Tom and Ros

You are a braver man than me, Gunga Din!

That area looks similar to the East and Northern shores of Georgian Bay in Canada. I use satellite imagery to add the rocks to my charts... Gets me to a lot of anchorages that other cruisers won't attempt going to. It helps that my dagger board lifts too. Great info about the pilot book being better than the charts.

@rporther

5 жыл бұрын

What happens if you discover that with despite the use of the satellite imagery to determine the position and depth of the rocks, you can't manoeuvre having started off already? Can bow thrusters get you back out?

Nice story again Tom. It was nice to have smalltalk with you in Ystad, Sweden 1st of August. Regards, Mika (Finnish sailor😎⛵️)

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Good to have a yarn with you as well Mika. I really like Ystad. A real town. Tom

As I believe I’ve said before, I sail on the west coast of Sweden and there are a few of those tiny passes but not quite as narrow. Warren s/y Legend

same geology as Georgian bay ontario :-) lovely.

GULP 😲😵😲😳 That moment is what , in technical measurement, is a pucker factor. I'd rate that a 8 out of 10.😁

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff. The first time we went through, it was indeed a bit heart in mouth. By the time we filmed, we'd been through the gap on a few occasions! I love that place. Tom

Great fun video. Thank you Tom. Can you please tell me what is your pilot book as I plan to sail in this aera.

@jakobwal

5 жыл бұрын

It is this one: www.amazon.com/Arholma-Landsort-Gotland-Guide-Stockholm-Archipelago/dp/9189564448 There is an english version. Its probably the most common crousing guide for the stockholm archipelago. Really good but everyone has it so it wont take you really of the beaten track. Dont buy it from amazon. Looked really expensive. Its available locally in boat shops as you get closer to stockholm.

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jakob for the info. My book is a few years old and in Swedish. At the time I bought, the English version stopped at Landsort, just south of the archipelago. Swedish is a beautiful language and with a quick online translator and a helping of common sense, we manage with it pretty well. Tom

Dicey work! Have you ever shot a tour of Constance?

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

No Phil, I haven't. You get odd glimpses if you plough through all the vids, but maybe I should one day. Thanks for the thought. Tom

@philsmith7398

4 жыл бұрын

@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns. She looks very easy on the eye, a real beauty so if you can muster the energy I think a lot of viewers would enjoy it! Many thanks for the videos and for the pleasure and knowledge I've taken from you're writings over the years.

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say so. It makes a big difference to us.

@ChrisBurton1706

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Cunliffe - yachts and yarns Can I second that Tom. Mrs B and I love these little dits, just like the one you did on Dahouet which we followed up on and had a great time in a wonderful little port easily missed. Fair winds and following seas both!

Not a lobster pot insight...happy days!

Tight as the proverbial sweep’s brush up the chimney.

A shot of God's feet and her shadow on the water, the nearest we have come to actually seeing her in one of your videos. When will she be brave enough to actually reveal what she really looks like? As I have had the pleasure to find with you both, I know she is real and can see her on the bow! It looks like you are both having fun & are in a wonderful area to sail in. Have a wonderful time & my best to the camera why Ros!

@Nerd3927

5 жыл бұрын

Actually quite a funny typo about God appearing in Tom's video :-)

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder which cyber spell checker allows this remarkably appropriate typo. I'm sorry Ros is always the wrong side of the camera. This has been noted by other connoisseurs of the female form. She says she's turning into one of those crypto characters who never speak on The Archers - like Derek Fletcher or Bert's late wife, Prue. Perhaps she'll surprise us with a selfie one of these days. T

@kevinjolly5493

4 жыл бұрын

old my on Tom,

@kevinjolly5493

4 жыл бұрын

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Could explain why they called it "Whisky on the rocks" when the (nuclear armed) Soviet submarine U137 ran aground outside the Karlskrona marine base back in 1981. It's always easier when it's daylight and the captain is sober...

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

No, I can't explain this. Perhaps it's some reference back to 'Whisky Galore'?

@mytube001

3 жыл бұрын

@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns The submarine was of a class that went by the NATO code name "Whiskey" (the Russians themselves only used the class designation "Projekt 644"). The joke practically wrote itself! :D

Looks like Georgian bay ontario Canada

You're not passing by Fehmarn by any chance are you?

@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns

4 жыл бұрын

Not this year Divan. We're just laying up in Augustenborg. Many's the time I've put out from Heiligenhafen and passed under the bridge at Fehmarn. Sounds a useful place to lay up. Tom

Sea I don't mind, rocks I hate.

"Thrippeny bit half crowning"....

No salt No Sharks No problem

Sorry, typo, previously, it should have been Ros's feet. Blinking auto correct.

Crikey and i thought some of the Brittany channels were tight.