I drove down through Tuesday's storm
Weds was electrics day
Then came Thursday
- sparkling bright January morning
Tristan,
the angelically faced and astonishingly efficient marina manager at Mylor took the shots of Lily M
Good man, good place, great day for winter sailing
worth every penny of pontoon rental, hour at the wheel, gallon of fuel, mile added to the Polo
This shot makes Lily M look like a fine looking vessel - I am not sure why I have a rubbish bin above the spreaders though. Free to good home. If you want it come and get it - bring your own drill and bosuns chair. You can have the steps for free too.
He caught me just before I headed out around the corner
typical low tide Cornish estuary
A couple of fine looking mobos
the yachts are brought up the beach on a spring tide
local oyster dredgers raising sail before work
this little yacht has a brand new inboard and is for sale - around £3,000. She looks like a little beauty
Mylor first thing in the morning
gun emplacement to protect the estuary
St Mawes
St Mawes Ferry - looking lovely
sunrise
little yards scattered all over the place
there are a few live-aboards on the Fal. Tough affair living on a mooring in the winter time
keeping a boat ashore up one of the creeks is almost free
On the second motorboat photo, the boat looks more yacht shaped than many sailing yachts. Great photos, great neck of the woods!
Love the boats laid up in every nock and cranny
Great for a really interesting place to explore
Thanks for pics
Glad you got a couple of nice days before the weather hits
W
Glad you are out and about.
After watching your ‘talk’ to the thieves, I followed your links to read about adsense.
If I understand it correctly, youtube (Goggle) are still making money from your trucking films etc and not paying you.
Why can you not (a) delete them (yes, tough luck on people that wish to see them) but justice against Google?
(b) delete them from youtube and show them from your own website or something? Or is there some awful legal thing the billionaire Google people wrote into a ‘contract’ that you ticked preventing you from doing this? Copyright has not been given to them has it?
You have been quiet of late and it was good to see that you were out sailing as I was getting worried. You are stronger than me and I know what it is like to feel kicked in the teeth, so I am sure you will shrug off these 2 nasty incidents and continue to enjoy life. Think of all the great things (family) you do have. And someone once said: “the greatest things in life are not things” – or something like that – he meant experiences and holidays and memories were the best things – and you are certainly much more active than many others a lot younger than you (I feel ashamed at how little I do in comparison, when once I was known as “the worker” that was never still).
I wish you all the best – don’t let the bstewards get you down – there are good people and bad people and you are one of the good’uns.
Glad to see you out and sailing. Your red sail makes some fantastic looking reflections in the first pic!
Excellent pics Dylan and I’m glad you have some decent weather. Have you taken a flood tide up the Percuil River from St Mawes yet? It’ very well worth a look. P.
You wrote
this little yacht has a brand new inboard and is for sale – around £3,000. She looks like a little beauty
I searched apploduck but could not find a listing. I’m just interested/nosey , wrong place wrong time.
But reminds me of a herroshoff hull for some reason..
Warren
I have just been reading a bit of the book “Coast” based upon the TV series. Page 44 onwards about Cornwall is great with some wonderful photos.
I believe they still make programmes?
Is there any way you you could contact the agents of the series and see if they could ‘use’ you / your work?
Your videos are certainly of the same genre, but give more detail?
“Coast” is a niche programme on TV, not a huge audience (compared to some of the other ‘stuff’ on the box), just as your sailing videos are niche compared to the trucker ones.
Worth tying? Or have you been there and done that and the TV industry is more hassle than it is worth compared to the peaceful life you have now (scrotes and Google apart).
Warren, If you’re interested in the boat give Lee at Ancasta Mylor a ring, it belongs to him.
I’ve sent you some photos via email
She does look lovely, with the red sail out too – stunning.
I understand you feelings about the radar reflector up your mast, but thinking ahead and assuming Lily will be taking you out into more troublesome areas, might leave it up there until such time that going ‘off shore’ is less and less likely. Can you hoist a disk thingy up into the spreader if you do take the permanent one down off the mast?
thanks for pics , I did email Lee.
Its a ‘Tankard 19’.
I like it for a small boat with some head room and an inboard!
It’s not for me (I’m in USA) but a boatyard owner boat can get all sorts of work done on them when the guys are slow (or not). I think this one is good value.
Sitting in a garage…waiting for the car to be fixed before we can go to the boat…using the time to have another look at KTL. I plan to use your Google/YouTube story with some of my “A” level students (I teach in a secondary school in Leeds). They need to know how the world really works and it is up to their generation to change things I suppose. If this is not OK then please drop me a line.
My take on this is that when you divide Google by the number of its customers it is all run on a shoestring! To have properly staffed call centres to manage the number of users they have would bankrupt it…hence the algorithm and the inhumane approach. I have a sinking feeling that this is the way of the future.
Anyway best wishes for the new year..life in Brough continues as before, the pontoons still wobble and it is still 5 hours to Spurn and the North Sea.
Simon
RE: The guys who stole your outboards and Google’s own brand of theft.
Woody Guthrie wrote something that fits pretty well.
“All my life I’ve met some mighty strange men. Some will rob you with a pistol, others rob you with a pen”
What fools these morons be ;~>
Enjoying your adventure Dylan. Thanks!!
A stand up guy who puts meaning to that saying;
“Living well is the best revenge”
My kind of fool.