bloody nora – westerly pageant
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… ‘cruising’ it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.” -Sterling Hayden
I started KeepTurningLeft as a way of scratching an itch. At the age of 52 I thought that I had one more adventure in me.
I have been a small boat sailor all my life – I had three older brothers swho were all sailors so I cannot remember a day when I did not have access to a boat.
I realised that a journey around the world was going to be too expensive….in time and money. But a journey around the UK’s 20,000 mile long outragously crinkly coastline could be done one bit at a time – like the Johnny Cash song.
I had £3,000 in the bank so I spent £2,000 on a 50 year old Mirror Offshore and made a start from Bembridge – where I bought the boat.
Five years later I have got as far as the Humber via every river between the two – the Medway, Thames, Crough, Roacj, Blackwater, Colne, Backwaters, Stour, Orwell, Debe, Blythe, Broads, The North Norfolk Estuaries, the Wash, Nene, Wainfleet and finally the Humber.
All the films are here for free. But they have been hideously compressed. They will look much better as downloads or from a DVD – which is how I earn the money to make the films
The films can be downloaded in HD for $4.99 a month. There are three KTL DVD sets available – £15 or $25 each. Send me your address and I will bung one in the post for you. Pay me once you get it
dylan.winter@virgin.net
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Dylan
