Tom Cunliffe

the salty road to freedom

~ pilot cutters to high-performance cruisers,

journalism, books, film ~

and the sea…

Sailing

I’ve been Mate on a coasting merchant ship and run yachts for gentlemen. I’ve operated charter boats, delivered all sorts of vessels, raced at quite high levels and have been teaching sailing intermittently for thirty-plus years. I became a Yachtmaster Examiner in 1978.

Classics have been my passion and for forty years I owned wooden gaffers. My wife Roz and I have sailed them all over the Atlantic, from southern Brazil to Iceland and from the Caribbean to Russia, with a number of trips to the US and Canada thrown in. I love traditional craft, but now I’ve finally gone bermudan. I’m happy sailing anything though that does the job properly. I’ve no time for boats that go sideways.

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Nautical Book Corner ~ books I’ve enjoyed

I’ve just finished Bucking the Tide by David Buckman, published by Custom Communications, Maine, in 2010. There will be an extract from this book soon in my Yachting World column, but don’t wait until then. This guy is up with the very best of nautical writers. Small boat; great read.

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