Sparkling Thursday morning

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.

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He caught me just before I headed out around the corner

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typical low tide Cornish  estuary

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A couple of fine looking mobos

 

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the yachts are brought up the beach on a spring tide

 

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local oyster dredgers raising sail before work

 

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this little yacht has a brand new inboard and is for sale - around £3,000. She looks like a little beauty

 

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Mylor first thing in the morning

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gun emplacement to protect the estuary

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St Mawes

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St Mawes Ferry - looking lovely

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sunrise

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little yards scattered all over the place

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S1720045 stored boats

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there are a few live-aboards on the Fal. Tough affair living on a mooring in the winter time

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keeping a boat ashore up one of the creeks is almost free

 

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This is about Dylan Winter's Blog.

24 Responses to “Sparkling Thursday morning”

  1. 29 January, 2016 at 9:16 pmsimon leslie ellis says:

    On the second motorboat photo, the boat looks more yacht shaped than many sailing yachts. Great photos, great neck of the woods!

  2. 29 January, 2016 at 9:25 pmdylan winter says:

    they are two of the loveliest I have seen

  3. 29 January, 2016 at 11:36 pmWarren says:

    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

  4. 29 January, 2016 at 11:47 pmdylan winter says:

    they are very creative about where they overwinter their boats – shove them well up the shingle beaches on a spring tide.

  5. 30 January, 2016 at 3:29 amGus says:

    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.

  6. 30 January, 2016 at 5:00 amShawn says:

    Glad to see you out and sailing. Your red sail makes some fantastic looking reflections in the first pic!

  7. 30 January, 2016 at 9:12 amPeter Truelove says:

    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.

  8. 30 January, 2016 at 10:06 amdylan winter says:

    I was up there on Sparkling Thursday – it was an ebb tide but the next time the tide is right I plan to go right to the top – or take a dinghy with me and do the rest in that

  9. 30 January, 2016 at 10:20 amdylan winter says:

    It is an interesting dynamic. I could click a few boxes and remove the adverts from the films – but then google would stop showing them and promoting them because they would make less money for google. I did the experiment a few years ago and the hit rate for the films I removed the ads from fell through the floor. Why should google offer a film as the next one to watch that earns them no money when it can offer films that do earn them money?

    Youtube is my front window. It is where I find new MOBs. Google is merely doing what all big companies do – lever their power. It is the nature of the beast. The films belong to them and the owners of the music (Sony and Warner). So whatever the pictures involved Google/Sony/Warner have carved it up among themselves. Apparently five companies own 11 million songs between them. Never written a note of music themselves of course.

    I think it is interesting that the scrotes came in the dead of night and deprive me of £1,000 worth of stuff from the sailing budget. G00gle comes in broad daylight and legally removes £30K from it.

    I do not lose any sleep over it though. Just observing human behaviour.

    D

    PS Gus, I use your torch every time I am on the boat. I am the envy of my neighbours.

  10. 30 January, 2016 at 2:53 pmWarren says:

    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

  11. 30 January, 2016 at 3:25 pmdylan winter says:

    Dunno – local listing perhaps – there is a brokerage at the marina you could ask them

    D

  12. 30 January, 2016 at 4:06 pmGus says:

    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).

  13. 30 January, 2016 at 4:37 pmdylan winter says:

    This is better – no invented race against time, no being told what to look at other than by a couple of thousand like-minded old sailors. They are helping me to build a journey around the UK – nothing like it has ever been done. Eking out the cash flow has been the main challenge right from the start. But without you blokes I would have been sailing up and down the blackwater for the past decade or so. I try to spend the money you blokes give me as carefully as I can.

    this is great – I sail all summer and make films for part of the winter. Seems ideal to me

    I did TV for a long time, it is a very, very tough way of earning a living – and Eleanor has just got herself a job working at a TV station in Holland.
    d

  14. 30 January, 2016 at 7:16 pmNiall Rath says:

    Warren, If you’re interested in the boat give Lee at Ancasta Mylor a ring, it belongs to him.

  15. 30 January, 2016 at 7:20 pmdylan winter says:

    I think she looks like a little cracker

  16. 30 January, 2016 at 7:31 pmNiall Rath says:

    I’ve sent you some photos via email

  17. 30 January, 2016 at 10:25 pmdylan winter says:

    thanks N passed them on

  18. 31 January, 2016 at 1:19 pmKeith says:

    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?

  19. 31 January, 2016 at 6:54 pmdylan winter says:

    I have a folding one – and I can hardly bare to look up and see all that junk and windage up there. My plan is to de-clutter the mast and then have a folding one to raise up the mast should I get into fog or shipping lanes – although I am told that a centaur gives a pretty big signal on any newish radar set – and my double size mast should send back a pretty good signal.

    It has taken me a few outings to get the sails looking okay. The main is a bit of a lost cause but I am beginning to like the idea of being able to roll it in and out with such ease. I can get some sort of shape to it and as soon as I manage to bring the topping lift back to the cockpit then I can tweak away to my heart’s content and get something approaching an aerofoil shape.

  20. 1 February, 2016 at 7:49 pmWarren says:

    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.

  21. 15 February, 2016 at 12:05 pmSimon and Jake Howarth (HYC Brough) says:

    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

  22. 7 March, 2016 at 3:35 amChris says:

    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!!

  23. 7 March, 2016 at 6:28 amdylan winter says:

    Good point

    Interestingly – never met either set of scrotes despite both having an impact on my well being

    a curse on both their houses

    -although one lot probably live on wheels and the other is a set of digits in a swiss tax haven.

    I fear I am the fool because they both got the upper hand.

  24. 7 March, 2016 at 5:06 pmChris says:

    A stand up guy who puts meaning to that saying;
    “Living well is the best revenge”
    My kind of fool.

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