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Tom Cunliffe
A hugely experienced sailor, marine journalist and former Yachtmaster instructor, Tom has been sailing for more than 50 years. He is a regular contributor to Yachting World, selecting his favourite book extracts for the Great Seamanship feature.
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Great Seamanship: Sailing across Europe in a 10ft dinghy
- June 17, 2024
When the Great Seamanship column put out to sea 20 years ago, the extracts were drawn from classic sailing literature, much of it written before World War II. As years…
Great seamanship: When the Sea Calls
- May 23, 2024
Back around 1980 I was privileged to be involved with the Robert Clark-designed 72ft ketches operated by what was then called the Ocean Youth Club. My own contribution was as…
Caught in a tropical cyclone in a 130-year-old wooden sailing ship
- April 25, 2024
Perhaps the best way to introduce Shane Granger is to quote from the flyleaf of his book Cargo of Hope: ‘He has worked as a radio DJ, advertising photographer, copywriter,…
Great seamanship: Chasing the Dawn
- March 13, 2024
The title of Nick Moloney’s remarkable book about breaking the Jules Verne unlimited round the world record in the 33m catamaran Orange offers a hint about the man that few…
Great seamanship: Fifty South to Fifty South
- February 13, 2024
The German pilot schooner Elbe 5, built in 1883, has had a remarkable life. A few years ago, she was in the news after being sunk in a collision with…
Great Seamanship: Heavy Weather Sailing
- January 10, 2024
Back in 1986, Martin Thomas and Alan Taylor entered the Transatlantic Two-Star Race in the Sadler 32 Jenny Wren. To say they didn’t have an easy trip would be a…
Great seamanship: Slow Boat to Uruguay
- December 8, 2023
If you’ve ever dreamed about buying a boat and sailing to South America with no firm plan about what to do next, Slow Boat to Uruguay by Andrew Tunstall is…
What happened when the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens ran away to sea?
- October 16, 2023
When a person is hit by the call of the sea – a wild call which, as Masefield observed, cannot be denied – today’s world offers many options. Varied they…
Great seamanship: inside a volcanic caldera in 50-knot winds
- September 26, 2023
Joe Phelan is one of Ireland’s great sailors. With his wife and equal partner Trish he has been quietly standing out from the crowd for over 50 years, with dinghy…
Great seamanship: The Lugworm Chronicles
- August 11, 2023
For anyone interested in small-boat voyaging – or indeed, any sailor wanting to get seriously close to the sea itself, The Lugworm Chronicles by Ken Duxbury is a ‘must-read’. I,…
Great seamanship: The Voyage of the Aegre
- July 26, 2023
Back in July 1973, Nicholas Grainger and his wife, Julie, sailed from north-west Scotland bound for the oceans of the world. Their boat was a 21ft clinker-built traditional Shetland Islander,…
Great seamanship: Bound for Cape Horn
- June 22, 2023
Read about sailing all your life and you won’t find another book quite like Bound for Cape Horn, with its interesting subtitle Skills for Expedition Cruising. Any suggestion this might…
When a sailor and a chicken took on an incredible voyage
- May 17, 2023
Say what you will, but the French have got style. We Anglo-Saxons may fancy ourselves as adventurers, but then along comes an unsponsored lad from North Brittany in a 30ft…
15,000 miles around Europe’s far north in a windsurfer camping under a sail – a fascinating tale
- April 28, 2023
Most of my deepwater sailing I’ve done in conventional yachts or classics. Board sailing and windsurfers, although I tried my hand years back and enjoyed it, are a world of…
Climbing a square rigger mast in the heart of a storm
- March 28, 2023
The world of square riggers is obscure to the vast majority of sailors today. Yet nautical literature is rich in fine works describing the minutiae of what went on –…
Sailing a junk rigged schooner in Greenland
- February 28, 2023
Dave Leet’s Nomad is a junk-rigged schooner which he sails mostly single-handed. He certainly puts the miles in, because although this article is about his experiences in West Greenland, when…
The Sea and The Snow: a stunning tale of adventure
- January 27, 2023
In the world of small-craft seafaring and modern mountaineering, 1964/5 seems very distant. Philip Temple’s remarkable work The Sea and The Snow, recently republished, brings those days straight to our…
Dream of the West Indies: four schoolboys on a transatlantic adventure
- December 19, 2022
In the summer of 1983, a group of very young Norwegians set out on a round trip to the Caribbean in Jeanette VI, a 35ft Vindø yacht they chartered from…
Long Lost Log: Pincher’s tale of storms and rows
- November 8, 2022
Michael Chapman Pincher, son of the great investigative journalist, left school at 17 to become a stagehand in London’s West End. At 23 in 1974 he quit and went to…
Great Seamanship: sailing through desert storms in the Suez Canal
- October 18, 2022
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Tom Cunliffe: Running aground and getting out of there
Tom Cunliffe muses on the tricky business of running aground: recalling a near miss on the Beaulieu River, and how to get unstuck.
Unless they’re being peppered with rockets fired by maniacs, we don’t generally read much about shipping in the papers. The exceptions come when things haven’t gone well. Not so long ago, a container ship outward bound from Southampton was seen running aground spectacularly in the Solent and remained lying on her bilge for several days. The crew were taken off and, realising that there was now no danger to life, every sailing yacht on the coast thoroughly enjoyed the video footage and the purple descriptions in the national press about the ‘stricken vessel’. It turned out that she had developed a dangerous list and that the pilot and captain put her ashore on the Bramble Bank rather than risk her capsizing in deep water.
As strandings go, this one was unusual. More typically, they result from good old human error. Commander Bill Anderson, RN Retd, my ex-boss in the Yachtmaster examining trade and a man who knows more than most about such matters, once observed that when any ship comes to a grinding halt, the navigator usually hasn’t a clue what’s happening because he has maintained his plot and knows exactly where he is. Or he thinks he does. Bill illustrated the remark by referring to a lamentable incident involving one of Her Majesty’s destroyers.
Before GPS and Running Aground
In those days of traditional, non-electronic navigation, pilotage errors and running aground was generally rooted either in sloppy dead reckoning or in what Napoleon described as ‘making pictures’. Boney, of course, was referring to generals who lost battles, rather than ships’ captains who found themselves on the rocks. The human condition being what it is, however, the results are the same. ‘Making pictures’ is all about setting aside inconvenient evidence while preferring to massage reality to fit what you hope is going to happen. I can’t speak for the military, but in the navigator’s case, it’s choosing to ignore shore features or buoyage that refuse to line up with what the chart says.
Before GPS, this sort of thing was common. I well recall running down onto the North Coast of Spain after crossing Biscay in the days before I discovered Astro. We’d been guided by dead reckoning plus a bit of help from the old Console radio beacon at Lugo, but we’d been held back by headwinds for days and we really didn’t have much idea of where we were. The black and white ‘fathoms’ charts we used then had drawings in the margins to discourage skippers from ‘making things fit’. These were delightful works of art featuring eighteenth-century sailing craft and they really did help, but we still couldn’t be sure. It was only when the mighty tower of Hercules flashed up outside Corunna that we saw we’d been wrong all along and were grateful we hadn’t rushed in.
Getting Stuck Anyway
I once had a Yachtmaster candidate whose task was to take me into Chichester Harbour. By punching the wrong numbers into his GPS he sailed into neighbouring Langstone instead. Chichester entrance is well buoyed. Langstone is less amply supplied. When I asked him where he thought the charted buoys might be as we sailed into Nowhere Land, he was determined to make pictures. His reply was that they must all have been taken up for maintenance. Like the destroyer captain, he still fancied he knew where he was as he came to an unscheduled halt.
The universal downside of running aground under the mistaken impression that you are in deep water is that, because you have no control over the grounding, the right action to take may be far from obvious. If, on the other hand, you slide to a standstill on the mud at the end of a tack while beating up a river, you’ll have anticipated this possibility and ought to have a contingency plan.
The Banks of the Beaulieu River
All should be well working off a weather shore, so long as you’ve swung the yacht’s head through the wind by backing the headsail as soon as she touched, but when you pile up on a lee shore the chances of coming off unassisted are almost non-existent. Should the tide be falling, the immediate future looks grim. This was my portion in my 22-footer back in the Dark Ages. My engine was literally a non-starter and my wife and I were foolishly tacking up the Beaulieu River in a stiff breeze against a strong ebb. Perhaps inevitably, in our inexperience we missed stays on the lee side and ended up well and truly pinned onto the beach.
Firmly run aground with the water draining out like an unplugged bath, our only chance was somehow to get the tiny yacht’s head through the wind so she could heel over and sail off. We thought about it for a few minutes and it was soon clear there was only one thing for it. With the centerboard up, as it now was, she drew only three feet. I kicked off my wellies and socks, jumped over the side, struggled round to the bow and started shoving. For a few agonized moments, nothing happened while the sails continued to thrash in the rising breeze. Then, following a massive effort, she suddenly moved, the jib backed and took over my efforts to swing her round to face the river.
Downstream to Deep Water
Now beam-on to the wind, the mainsail filled, she heeled over and away she went with like a little rocket with me hanging on to the main horse for grim death. My wife was now at the helm and, with a leading wind, was able to steer back downstream and out into the Solent trailing me astern with my knuckles turning steadily whiter. Back in deep water, she came up towards the wind to spill all the air from the sails. As way dropped off I was able to claw along to a point around amidships. This shifted my relatively huge lateral resistance to where it would do most good and the boat sat still while I clambered dripping and chastened back into the cockpit.
We reached over to Cowes in what remained of the daylight and spent the night with two metres of water under us off the Folly Inn. There’d be no more tight-quarters stuff in thin water for us until we regained our nerve.
How To Get Unstuck
Being too slow to tack as the keel touches always leaves you with a problem, whatever the tide. Unless you can fall back on the services of a bow thruster to kick her through, sailing off what is now to all intents and purposes a lee shore will be impossible since you’re unlikely to be as young and foolish as I was when I jumped in to save the day. Drop the sails instead and do your best to motor out astern, the way you came in. Reduce your draught by moving bodies to induce a heel and, when all else fails, lay out the kedge or accept assistance gracefully. Always keep a bottle of scotch handy as a present after being pulled off. The general bonhomie engendered can save a fortune in salvage claims.
A helping hand
When things seem hopeless, the ultimate solution can be to pass the spinnaker halyard to a friendly motorboat by attaching a long line to its shackle while its fall is made fast on board. You might even manage this using your own dinghy with an outboard. I stood by once while some highly competent guys did it with their hefty RIB, oddly enough on the Beaulieu River Bar. A French yacht had got it badly wrong; she needed a pull off sharpish and a straight tow didn’t work, so they took the halyard and cruised away while Frenchie closed his hatches. When the RIB was far enough off, the lads poured on the power. The yacht heeled over so far she’d no option but to come off as they dragged her sideways.
This drastic procedure seldom fails, given a big-enough power boat. Years ago I was hard and fast on a coral head with no helpers presenting themselves. I secured the halyard to a distant mangrove root ashore and winched myself down. Another pal succeeded by hanging the halyard onto his kedge and rowing it well out, but whatever dire ends to which you are driven, the tide will always have the last laugh. If it’s rising, and it’s stuck, take your time. When it’s falling remember Nelson, who always encouraged his men to ‘Lose not a moment!’
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In 1938, it was granted town status. [citation needed]Administrative and municipal status. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Elektrostal Urban Okrug.
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Elektrostal Geography. Geographic Information regarding City of Elektrostal. Elektrostal Geographical coordinates. Latitude: 55.8, Longitude: 38.45. 55° 48′ 0″ North, 38° 27′ 0″ East. Elektrostal Area. 4,951 hectares. 49.51 km² (19.12 sq mi) Elektrostal Altitude.
Elektrostal is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 58 kilometers east of Moscow. Elektrostal has about 158,000 residents. Mapcarta, the open map.
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A residential and industrial region in the south-east of Mocsow. It was founded on the spot of two villages: Chagino (what is now the Moscow Oil Refinery) and Ryazantsevo (demolished in 1979). in 1960 the town was incorporated into the City of Moscow as a district. Population - 45,000 people (2002). The district is one of the most polluted residential areas in Moscow, due to the Moscow Oil ...
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