I am now resigned to the fact that sailing in Scotland in 2017 has gone down the toilet with the sale of my last ever Centaur.
It was the first time in a life time of boat owning that I have sold a boat I really wanted to keep. The plan was to use it for the outer Hebrides, St Kilda, Colonsay, Islay, Jura and around the outside of Ireland.I knew I needed a boat with a completely reliable engine - Lily M was the boat for that job.
Last year I sailed through the winter at Mylor and then took the boat with two friends to Skye where I based myself in Plockton and ranged around the North West for the summer. and most of the winter. It was a pricey year afloat.
Last year the taps brought in £5K - I spent £6.6 K on diesel for boat and car, car servicing and moorings and pontoons. I spent three months on a mooring to save money.
Actually lads that was bloody dangerous - being on a mooring where no-one was about and arriving and departing at stupid hours either before or after a 14 hour drive was pretty damn dangerous. I had two near misses when no-one would be about to save me. I had a life jacket on but one was bloody frightening. Old sailors die in dinghies not at sea.
this was the dinghy laden
and this was the mooring during one of the frequent storms.
bloody dangerous. KTL is great - but not worth dying for
Scotland is both the roughest and coldest place to sail in Britain and also the most beautiful. You and the boat need to be well prepared and in good condition if you are to get the best out of these amazing year round sailing grounds.
Those winter skies are just unbelievable. The half winter I had up there was glorious.
I am desperate to get back to scotland while I am still fit and can hold a camera steady- who knows what will happen to my health.
So far so good and no worries. I pass my tests - but you start to count the years. The fit years.
I am hoping to film these beautiful wild places while I am still fit and not a danger to myself or those around me.
You guys know I love to sail in new places - that is what does it for me. I sailed on an inland lake for a few years - drove me bloody bonkers. Sailing Katie L up and down the deben will be fine but I will be bored to death by mid may.
I have enough material in the can for 10 more films about the journey down the West Coast of Scotland. They will be a fairly cohesive narrative down the left hand side of this wonderfully crinkly country. In my terms nothing more than a snapshot of a place - hardly any islands for starters.
I have missed much much more than I ever saw.
I want to go back, I want to make those films, I want to ride those tides, I want to film those beaches.I want to tell you blokes what it is like.
To do a good job of telling you what it is like to go out sailing there in every month of the year but I cannot make films on thin air and the good will of freeloaders who have devoted many, many hours of their precious time to watching and enjoying the films - but without, as yet, chipping in.
My films are the best shot, most thoughtful, informative, witty sailing films anywhere on the web. If KTL falls by the wayside the only well produced sailing series will be the bikini shows featuring pulchitudinous girls sailing expensive multi bathroomed plastic yachts around hot places waving their delectable tushes in the general direction of their semi-tumescent go pro wielding boyfriends
To watch the bikini babes is just too embarrasing for words when wives are in the room. My films are suitable for family viewing.
We pay for other digital things - box sets, netflix, maybe even for cable or skye - itunes or spotify. You pay for the entertainment not for the costs involved in the top gear blokes smashing up perfectly good cars or for the furs worn in game of thrones series 4.
Please gentlemen, I ask you not to pay me money because you think it will help some jowly old Englishman to take a future boat to a future place - or for the modest achievement of an old bloke sailing a well found boat in a tough place .
As you watch what may well be the last ever films from KTL make the decision how much to pay on a film by film basis purely for the entertainment value to you and an intelligent thoughtful sailor
Forget the costs involved of making the films. They are of as little importance as the price of Sir Micks bus ticket to a Rolling Stones concert at the Albert hall or the value of the paint applied by Picasso to a piece of canvas. The value to the viewer is what counts.
If you watched a film and then thought about it the next morning then maybe tap me some cash in appreciation for the fun you had watching it.
If, on the other hand, you thought it was an utter waste of time and "why the heck did I sit through that drivel" then pay nothing.
Send me an email saying why it was a worthless piece of crud.
if however, it filled half an hour for you and you now feel more relaxed about more important things such as what the heck were the Americans thinking when they elected Donald Trump, then that might be worth a couple of bucks and comment via paypal.
If, on the other hand, it was bloody brilliant – well tap me a bit more. – not for the future boat but for the experience you have just shared with me via the lens of my camera on my boat . If you went for a sail with a friend for a day you would not turn up empty handed – you would bring some beer, or a mars bar each.
Since I sold the Centaur the taps have suddenly gone up to a level where if they hold through the next ten films I can re-boot with a Fisher 25 next year. I know it is blocky little motorsailer but it will keep me warm, dry and safe while sailing in a cold, wet and rough place.
At first I could not make out why the taps had picked up. Whenever anyone sends me money I always send a hand crafted email in return.
One bloke from the States, a builkder of wooden boats by trade sent me $200. I sent an email back asking why.
This is what he said.
“Over the years I have been downloading all your films and I watch them in the morning with my coffee because the news is so horrible. I was mortified when I discovered that you had sold your boat. I thought you would be there forever. I assumed that you did not need any money.
I think that I had rationalised not tapping you anything because, in my head, you were some sort of eccentric English millionaire philanthropist genius amateur film maker who thought that sailing a crap boat to interesting places was cooler than sailing a good one. I realise this was a way of me justifying not giving any money to a friend I had been sailing with for many miles and over several years. When I heard you had sold the boat I realised that it was partly my fault so I sent the money for the eight DVD sets sitting on my hard drive.”
So the past three Scottish films were on target for 2K each - the last two east coast films hit half that.
If the last ten films (as yet unmade) can also hit £2K each then I can buy a boat and start making sailing films again.
If they don't hit target then it will be just you and the bikini girls.
Thanks Gents
Onwards and Upwards
It’s more so we don’t loose the old blogs – rather than remove from YouTube, shift ’em to KTL2. Also a good home for wee snippets of film that maybe don’t make it to a proper episode….You had some great mini clips of drifting up the forth (or maybe it was the earn).
I enjoyed every piece of film. Hope to see more and hope you will finish your voyage around Britain.
Dylan, I’m surprised that a TV network hasn’t asked to condense some of your films into a series by now. If they think we’ll watch some old bird poke around in some dusty ruins for 6 or 8 weeks, why not some old bloke poking around in the hidden tourist spots of Great Britain. You’re every bit as entertaining as Griff Reese Jones Thanks to you, seeing the Three Rivers Race is on my bucket list. How’s that for a sales pitch?
Dylan
I discovered your content only recently and am loving it – both the old and the more recent stuff… I am NOT a sailor, and.. not a bloke (incase my name didn’t twig you on that) – you do seem to assume a male viewership, which is probably the case in the majority, but you over-emphasize it a little which has sort of discouraged me from contributing until now – I’ve had a lovely day plugging against the tides with you today with some of your earlier stuff to catch up and will send a few quid your way – you totally deserve it for the super content.
I do hope you get sufficient funds to continue – but if that doesn’t happen I owe you for the stuff you already have out there.
G
D
97 percent male is probably close to the mark, happy to represent the remaining 3% ;-)
I am definitely looking forward to the West Coast footage – although I live somewhere warm it’s true you miss what you don’t have, the scenery in Bermuda is ‘chocolate box’ pretty…as I’m from Scotland I miss the mountains and even a decent hill.
I have done a little sailing but wouldn’t call myself a sailor – there are plans to do more and I find your bits about tides etc.. fascinating – no real tide where I live.
All the best for the future, fingers crossed enough contribute a wee bit to the kitty.
G
Hi Dylan,
having only recently found you, soaked up hours of your videos, taken up your time and listened to your VERY sound advice, I am now looking forward to my first season back on the water after far too long.
I bought a Skipper 17 Mk 2. She’s in pretty good nick, just a few bits of rigging to sort and fit her out inside for proper cruising.
I so hope that we get to see the West Coast this year before I get up there next year and I really hope that you get to cover Skye which is also on my bucket list.
Having just found you, I don’t want to loose you as it will feel like a tragic Man Overboard. I so hope you get to complete your dream and keep us old blokes inspired.
Dylan: I only recently found you but I think your films are wonderful. I’m a pretty avid consumer of YouTube sailing videos and it’s amazing how much cash some of them get via the Patreon website. You may have considered adding that to your site. I’m going to share your site with a few sailing pals who hopefully will add something to your coffers. Please keep sailing.
Neil
Southern California (Islander 26, designed by William Crealock)
and Sweden (Allied Seabreeze 36. http://www.sailingarcturus.com)
Neil, Thank you for the great views of sailing in Sweden. Lovely location but sadly a short season. Interesting details of laying up for the winter. Hopefully you will be taking in the Aland Islands and then maybe along the southern coast of Finland. Good luck.
Hi Dylan
Ever though of writing a book about your travels . .? My wife and I are really enjoying your book about walking along offa’s dyke. You have an easy , entertaining writing style that really captures the atmosphere of what you were doing. I have a feeling that my wife’s’ s book group may even choose it as a book of the month.
I would certainly buy a couple of copies of you ever got round to it. There are lots of books about sailing around the Uk but most are quite dull and uneventful
Thanks. Rob
Hi Dylan
I found your site whilst going through divorce and unemployment, all is good now. I very much enjoyed your clips and I will continue my support. I’m not yet an old bloke but I’m closing in on it.
I haven’t been able to make your subscription work yet but I will.
Keep on keeping on,
Hello i love you films have you thought aboy making a 1 hour film and selling it on ktl website as a download with just a trailer on youtube to direct people to your site then if people want to see it they would have to pay even if it is just 1 pound
i am now going to tap your button for a few wuid
giving you money felt oddly very good i urge others to do so to
Hi Dylan, Sorry you are struggling a little at the moment. I have visited the West Coast often, doing work for the Navy. In my opinion it is very dangerous in the winter. I remarked as such to the DCA. We often worked at Applecross or the inner sound, where we could see storm squalls falling over Skye and Rassay, knowing that in 15 to 20 minutes the foul weather would reach Applecross. I have been aboard a Fleet Tender which has taken solid water over the wheelhouse. I can’t imagine being at sea in a small sailing boat in those conditions, it would be near suicidal. ‘Old sailors and bold sailors’ methinks.
keep at it, i don’t normally donate. but i want to keep your dream alive.
Best
Something confuses me.
When you set off on your adventure it was because it was something you wanted to do?
Fair enough – along the way you have produced some great content which has allowed you to subsidise your costs.
If you raised £5k last year and your costs were £6.6k – that means you paid £1.6k yourself = 25% of the costs. So you have a 75% subsidy. Given that you’re actually getting to do what you want (the sailing) – that doesn’t seem too bad to me.given the costs that other people have to run their own boats or go on a sailing holiday.
Or have I missed the point?
Interesting point James, Eleanor has a different perspective. Her business model of earning funds from content is valid but does not include the intangible of Dads dream. That might reqire funding in part from the Bank of Dad, which after all helped fund the kids dreams.
D, really miss the blogs, would have happliy tapped for a few, i.e. meadway pollution, MD1 fun in Wells etc.
Pulling those was a shame for many of us, again all a matter of perspective. Pity, .as we say over on this side of the pond.
I think James has a perfectly reasonable point and I also think that it’s all very well saying we must only tap for the entertainment, of course we should, the alternative would be we’re tapping to fund your sailing which I guess wouldn’t be particularly attractive to many of us, I’m reminded of the chap who responded “good luck with that” when you first announced the need to buy a Fisher 25 and how you hoped it was to be funded, as initially I felt much the same. However the reality is for me when tapping I do actually have the sense that I’m making a contribution to the project as a whole with all the other MOB’s and not just the next film and I suspect I will not be in a minority on that.
My point is that I’m not sure separating the various funding requirements is beneficial to KTL’s income stream, particularly when one continues to hear your suggestion to download while you can which personally I find somewhat off-putting. It seems to me that the more you focus on the value of the entertainment provided and it’s potentially limited lifespan, the closer to having to quantify that valuation one gets, for example if I had a mind to I could say that I can get all Sky’s sport and cinema output in multiple rooms in HD for say £3 per day, whereas I might tap a tenner for each of your 45 minute films, once a month?
Of course for me and I expect all of us tappers the comparison is bizzarre as it doesn’t take into account (my sense of) the communal nature of the project but I do think it may be worthwhile to review how and why different people enagage with KTL, I do not think it is just to hire a film.
Good luck as always
Interesting discussion on the right model to fund this project. There are different models. The recurring payment model is far the most used by networks and streaming services whereas the pay per view model is not used as much anymore. The model on KTL is the pay per view model. Since the content is not behind any payment wall anyway, it is up to the good will of the customer to pay or not. In that respect there is no right or wrong motivation to pay, just as long as you pay.
I think you could be succesful in setting this up as a crowd funding venture, with a recurring monthly fee like Patreon, or by donation on a crowd funding portal like https://www.startnext.com/. A German, Guido Dwersteg, have collected +6.000 Euros to circumvent Scandinavia by Bavaria 32 in a few weeks.
So, it’s KBO for KTL! – thank you Mr Churchill and thank you Dylan
Is it a Fisher 25 or nothing Dylan? Lots of Colvic Watson’s out there and cheaper than the Fisher.
Nice southerly 28 on eBay at the mo…
Ted, thanks for the kind words. Äaland and Finland on my itinerary for next year…
Apologies if I am repeating myself, somewhere else on this blog, but I thought I had pointed you in the direct of some Fishers – comments about rich old men etc??
Here’s one of the original Freewards, which certainly sail well and are bombproof with a one inch layup (so light they are not). Note the new engine too! 40HP!!! The Coryvechan will hold no fears And for less than £20k which is what has been spent.
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http://www.fisherowners.org/classifieds-ads/item/fisher-freeward-25-sagina.html
There more on the classified including one for £5995 which need works (probably needs a rich old bloke)
Alan
I’ve just been reading through this thread with interest, having already watched a lot of the films (just on my lapdog) but not yet contributed. How do I do this (I’m a bit of a tyro at e-commerce too!)?
I was sorry to read that you’d sold your boat. A big step, and a diffucult one, in moire ways than one I should think. Two years ago (almost to the day) I bought a Centaur, hoping it would be ready to sail. It wasn’t. Two years, a new engine and several thousand pounds later, I’m hoping to get the mast up this week and then go sailing.
If you’re missing it, Dylan, as one old buffer to another, I’d be happy to have you as crew so at least you can get on the water. Only Solent-pottering to start with, but I have a slight ambition to sail round Britain too. Get in touch through the WOA website – same name. :-)
Sailing close to the edge is good, provided it’s the edge of the wind you’re close to, not the rocks!
We could try for a day if you like and then pack it in if we hate each other by the end of it!
Grrr. Can’t get into Paypal atm cos I can’t remember the password and my diary is in the car which is in a locked garage 100 yards away….
Morning Dylan.
I am determined to find you a “suitable” boat.
What about this one? It’s even in the right country!
http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/Sailboats/fisher-boats-fisher-25-freeward/165969
Just an a diesel stove and you are sorted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuLvL_tXR9w
David
I bet you don’t drive from inside, even when you can. A Centaur with a good spray hood and an autopilot with remote so you can keep watch from the shelter of the companionway would work. Add a warm air heater and Robert is your dad’s brother. I had just that setup, except the remote for the tiller pilot last year. But I sail in the “summer” if you can call it that in Scotland.
Mr Winter, I friend came around my house the other day and pointed me in the direction of your videos. I have to say I was very impressed and have made a donation.
Short notice indeed, but starting next week (20/3/17) i am leaving Rhu (just norht of Kip) to visit and cruise the western Iles, you are very welcome to join me and bring all your camera gear.
Regards,
Keith Walker.
I had a propex heater once, stick to the ubiquitous diesel fueled ones, there must be a reason folk do it. Especially an Origo stove convert, it’s good to be gas free. My Wallas is Paraffin fueled but that’s like diesel.
Bob.
You are an inspiration to us all. THATS why I donate. If you ever in canada, Belleville ontario to be exact, hit me up ill take you out on a lovely sail around our beautiful bay of quinty
I have tapped again as I definitely want to see the journey continue complete with the great videos and stories. I hope that this continues to help you.
Len
Well done D, you are no 1.
A post this morning on youtube, second chance sailing by good looking pete, confirms it.
His take on the top ten sites is not bad, top three are my choice as well. Likely mirror a lot of the guys.
His comments on you nail it.
Thx D , nice to hear another Quinte sailor watches your stuff, only a few miles from me, so sail past Matthew’s place all the time when the ice is gone. Thats why l haunt the Chesapeake, tad warmer.
Iya Dylan! I’d just finished watching one or two scotland videos, which were brilliant, and then had to go and do actual life stuff again, rather than worship the laptop. Next time I look on and your westerly has sold :( I too was under the impression you were a well sorted bloke from the south ( north of the boarder, just south of sheffield) who would be sailing for some time. I start new job tomorrow and will be tapping up soon. I loved your humber videos, riding upto tetney harbour, then up the humber to the ouse york way, then riding down and up the trent all the way to torksey lock keeper neils lock, then onto the witham and out past boston. I did the same journey with old BW ( CRT to those who weren’t on the waterways boating in days gone by) painting all the rise and fall posts and waterside furniture from lincoln to boston. Loved it. the work narrowboat had a cd player and lincoln got its education from zz top, kate bush, prince etc. I hope to get on the water in a boat of my own on day, for now it will be the kayak that was pulled out of stamp end lock. I found this on ebay. No idea of your current budget, but its slightly less than the 25k you mentioned above.
Or for around a tenth of the price of the big steel beast above, how about this 1980s Scandanavian style, Centaur-sized, motor sailer?
http://www.cheapboats.org.uk/sailing-boats/arransen-780-yacht/
Hot water, warm air heating, clean-looking engine, sheltered wheel steering position behind a wind shield which could be made even more sheltered with a sprayhood, plus a tiller, bilge keels (I’m guessing here) etc. Just needs some fettling — easier to say than do, I know.
Yeah and I can understand why, Tbf you’d probably need an 18ton lorry to move it by road but I thought you should know about it. I want to see more of your films up. You’ve done more for promoting sailing and inland waterways than the nations industry put together as far as i am concerned. Hope you’re proud of it. You’ve got me put off the canal cruisers and looking for a sail boat holiday, possibly a sail boat.
Hi I am part of the 3% not a male grumpy auld bugger.
Have you tried crowd funding not sure how it works but every bugger is doing it, for just about any old thing.
Will send you a wee donation, why not, you actually very entertaining, informative and beautiful scenery make it worth while.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fisher-25-Motor-Sailer-/162478614667?hash=item25d47ae88b:g:nFIAAOSwSypY9Px5
Not bad eh, and ideally situated to start exploring n wales, the Irish Sea and up to lovely scotland
Have you seen this one, Dylan..?
http://www.cheapboats.org.uk/sailing-boats/fisher-25-motor-sailer/
And a tap from me too… A US tenner here is about the equivalent of a Tightarse Tuesday cinema ticket, and you’re better that what’s on at the flicks.
Sorry, had to look up ‘Pulchritudinous’ Dylan
(Pulchritudinous. The definition of pulchritudinous is a way to describe great physical beauty. A person who is very beautiful would be described as pulchritudinous.)
I just invested in a 1980s Mirage 2700. Feels considerably roomier and than the Centaur with a deck that feels remarkably like the EBoat. Similar condition/engine/price at Lilly M. Just a thought?
For me, a step up after sailing a Sailfish 18 for the last thirteen years.
Simon
Hi Dylan,
I’m amazed at some of the single handed older ladies that sail around the Southampton and Portsmouth waters, so less of the “you lads”, if you please.
Love your your videos – and yes, I have donated some spondulies.
Keep on sailing.
Peter
Hi Dylan,
Glad the tide has now turned after the slack. My Mum loved your CD vids that you sent. She lived on her father’s yacht part of WW2 whilst he was away on payback for the three brothers who went off to WW1 and never returned. He did well – DSC etc. I still have his D Day chart where he and others went in June 5/6th to minesweep the approach channel to the beaches. Liked your bit on the Shetland Bus. Said maternal grandfather was posted from HMS Glorious a few weeks before she was sunk on return from Norway by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. He nicked an ashtray on leaving which stayed in the family for years until a chance conversation with a friend of mine whose uncle, it turned out, had gone down with Glorious. Their family now has the ashtray. His father was a tail gunner in Lancs (imagine).
The problem that you have occasioned with your vids, however, is that at 89 Mum now demands to be taken back out on the water in a few weeks time …………….thanks! Just sent a payment via PayPal. If you need ‘stuff’ for your new boat I have a barn load of all sorts from 40 years of boat projects. You have a great set of followers out there. Keep going. Best wishes, Rob
Hi Dylan,
I recently came across your video’s and I have enjoyed them tremendously (Scotland). I haven’t got to the others, but I can only imagine they are done just as well. I will be honest, I’m finding your argument of making films and the lack of support (monetary) rather head scratching. I didn’t know the idea of putting out video’s on youtube was strictly a business. I alway’s thought youtube was a way to post your/posters experiences and share them with the rest of the world (a choice). I understand some make money and some don’t. Is that the point, to make money and have your dreams and aspirations financed by youtube? There are ways to make films and generate money if that’s what you want to do. Heck, I’d wish everyone would chip in and finance my dreams and ambitions as well. I noticed you talk about ‘freeloaders” not contributing to your video’s and financing your adventures. Do you contribute to all the subscriptions that you belong to? I noticed a few bikini sailing websites that you seem to condone, you have a subscription to. Hey, your entitled to subscribe to anything you wish, I’m not here to tell you otherwise. I was just thinking what if you deleted a majority of those sites and put that cash back into your pocket (assuming you donate to their content as well) you might have a little more to put back into your budget. I know it sounds like I’m coming down on you but i’m not. You can make your own decisions on what you want to do with your site, and say anything you wish.You are more than entitled to do that (that is your right and you have the freedoms to do that). I’m just trying to understand your rational. I don’t have a youtube account. But, if I did, I’d make video’s because I wanted to, not because I expected anything in return from them. Maybe that’s what separates me from you and the many of youtubers that are money motivated for financial gain. If you aren’t making $$ doing this than don’t put any more resources into it. I take it you enjoy doing what you do (it shows), you seem to be just disappointed by the lack of $$ heading your way. Heck, isn’t sailing enough and experiencing your own adventures satisfying? Don’t make video’s because you have to, make them because you want to. Seems like you are generating a little bit of money for the cause while doing what you love. Can’t be all that bad. But, if you are losing more money than you are putting into it, or are not making enough profit to meet your “obligations”, maybe your in the wrong business. I wish you all the best. I hope you find your next boat, and I hope you continue to grow your audience and website. I think you’re a pretty lucky man.
or has Chris actually missed the point?
Hello Dylan,
It’s a privilege to pay £10 for access to your site.
I stayed (camped) on Orpheus, a Freeman 22 Mk 2 from end of June until first week in October in 2015 on the Thames. My home port was the Bounty in Bourne End, because the owners offered an overnight mooring to those who ate & drank there. I loved it. http://thebountypub.com/
We trailered the boat to the house in the belief we’d repaint etc over that winter, but we Dylaned & Dallied & there it sat. 2016 came & went, because other matters took priority, Sanding has now been completed. We’ll see if we can return Orpheus to the water, some time in June. However, I would like to draw your attention to Louis Sauzedde of Wickford, Rhode Island, who built the most beguiling Lumber Yard Skiff over 37 episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22Crc7XHoI
He sold the skiff on Ebay last week for $21,100 & the reason I mention this is that he is 67 & he built the skiff from lumber he already had.
However, Walter Baron, not too far away in Welfleet, uses plywood to build skiffs.. http://www.oldwharf.com/walter-baron-boat-builder/
I bought a set of his plans for his LYS for $60 delivered & I am determined to have one. Scroll down to #14 to see how nice they can be. http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?138899-lumber-yard-skiff&highlight=jclays
OTOH, Sam Devlin in the Pacific North West designs & builds stitch & glue boats. Here is a link to his sailboats. https://www.devlinboat.com/sailboats/
Perhaps constructing the boat of your dreams is something to consider?
All the best,
Perry
“Blocky shit of a motor sailor” I say old chap, steady on, Tutak has looked after me for many years and doesn’t want to hear language like that. She might take offence and kill me!
All this cuffuffle has lead me to ponder on why I like your films. The are what I do. I don’t re watch them but they remind me of where I’ve been and what I’ve done. What you give me is history and more on land. Me legs don’t allow too much shore side time.
I will put something in the pot for the “Let’s get Dylan an F25” fund!
Bill.
Re Patreon……..sorry old subject
But the gone with the wynns posted a q&a video
And answer about the decision to go with Patreoncan’t there experience with it etc.
https://youtu.be/Asfa52x7BmA Q is at about 5:30
They had some of your conserns, its worth a couple of minutes to hear what these very experiences posters say.
Cheers warren
Dylan, You may not have picked up that they(Wynns) got their huge following from their previous 6 years of R Ving all over the USA. I have watch some of those videos and they are just as good not like some of the old folks and red neck type RV stuff out there…… They also don’t make as much as Pateron suggests either.
I also think you under estimate your worth. I think you would get 300 patreons but even at 100 at say an average of $10 there is $1000 plus the added pay as you go format & you have the 2K. If you had 200 patreons ……
I am very close to becoming a Patreon ( while I’m still working) on a few channels as I watch them a lot , mainly since your troubles as I started looking arround ……right now my list is probably
Follow the boat, gone with the Wynns,sailing emerald steel, MJsailing,Drake paragon,Salt & Tar,
All really hard working folks and I think deserve recognition for their hard work. I spend over $80 a month for some fairly basic TV so another $20 for the entertainment I actually watch should be a no brainier. And I’m a really anti- subscription type of guy! ( they have all received one time contributions already).
Dunno, you are one of the early pioneers of the sailing channels and should benefit from the genre you helped create.
Thanks for letting me post my long winded thoughts on your site.
Cheers Warren.
Ps if anybody wants to see my list of favorite YT channels they can check out my channel subscription list at ‘warp21drive’….. Mainly sailing related.
Dylan
Inspired to buy a Boat with a friend thanks to your Blog & films. Guess what a Lovely Centaur and i was inspired by your east coast Trip to Scotland so will be sailing the Firth of Forth this year & who knows next year.
Looking forward to following you down the West coast!
Dylan, I’ve tried to tap you a few US$, but the paypal link is not working. Get the message: “Things don’t appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later.” It’s been that way for several days.
I haven’t been on your blog for a while, and have looked through this posting about your Centaur and deciding to downscale. A friend of mine called Roger Barnes had a yacht at one time, a hefty wooden vessel, a Hillyard or something similar. He was up against the enormous costs of mooring and maintenance. He bought an Ilur, which is a 16ft open lug rig dinghy designed by François Vivier to a traditional fishing boat design. He goes on cruises as a “hard bastard”. He has a bit more comfort than I on my 12ft Zef with the Mirror rig. A boat with a lid is more pleasant for sleeping at night and keeping your stuff dry. Whether you go for an open boat or a small transportable yacht you can launch and recover yourself on a slipway, I think you will be happier. I am often tempted to buy a Hurley 22, but am always brought back to this sobering reality of cost. Good luck. Anthony
Iya. payday came yesterday. I’ll be tapping your this weekend. I was looking on ebay for the now vanished Nomad 22 I’ve been watching for some time. Sad to see what might have become my first boat if it’d stayed for sale for long enough. Oh well. Yeah, whilst i was on ebay patrol I saw this. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colvic-32-Motor-Sailer-Priced-to-Sell-/152549486435?hash=item2384a86f63:g:rnsAAOSwIQdZGcyG Looks well priced to me, A dint more than beloved centaur. Dunno how you’d feed the ropes into the cabin on this one, though
Something more affordable for me over that nomad would be a sadler seawych. Have you ever had one, if so how would you rate it?
The keels on the seawych look to be shallower than those on your centaur, not bad for creek crawling. What was your other boat lily m?
Hello Dylan – I’m hoping you can get in touch with me, as I am with a television production that is hoping to license some footage of murmurations. I found some glorious content on youtube which I believe you shot – can you send me an email to get in touch? I’m located in Toronto, Canada – and the project is an HBO remake of Fahrenheit 451. Looking forward to hearing from you. And I’m from a sailing family, so instead of ‘cheers’, I’ll end with Fair winds and following seas and long may your big jib draw…… Mara
Seen this, thought of your boat wishes http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/Motor-sailers-for-sale/tilney-i-p-24-motor-sailer/169865. Mebe less room than the centaur, but more warmth
Dylan… I have off and on much enjoyed your videos. I think I have even been a one time donor. But since you have decided to turn your work into additional political commentary on a very controversial subject I have stayed away. Tonight I decided to check in to see how you have been going. I would love to come back and even be a part of getting you the Fisher 25. It is just what you need. But I would have to see in writing a new commitment to cease the political criticism that frankly strikes me as none of your business…
Dylan, I have left a small contribution as I remember when, due to family reasons, I had to hive up my boat,I simply couldn’t afford to keep it and a young family.
Please do your best to keep the films coming.
I still sail but only a Mirror dinghy on a large lake. At 74 getting under the boom can be challenging.
I like your style of presenting, I’m sick of programs that present a glossy veneer on everything in case they offend some section or other.
Colin
Warts and all!
Part of what makes KTL a great watch is the views of the author. He tells it like it is, even us brits get a hammering if you drive a stinkpot(powerboat) or anything other than a bilge keel, mine is one that falls over if you get it wrong.
Rick the US president is a concern as it’s such a powerful job. Have a beer with Dylan and discuss it. It’s only his pint of view.
David
Dylan, I do hope you will continue KTL. Do you have a “Patreon” site for KTL?
I support a number of sailing channel “creators”. I would certainly become a supporter for your channel. Best of luck,
have recently bought a small yacht and also discovered your films. Hope you get back on the water soon. Am sure hollywood will soon come knocking to make a feature on you and if Brad Pitts is unavailable I am.
All the best
Dylan….
25k for a Fisher is… well… huge.
After a horrendous 18 months, during which my wife passed away, I have now bought a Contessa 26 for just 7k.
safe as houses.
Safer actually (you should see my house).
Take it easy mate.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
And I have looked at Fishers myself, but the price puts me off.
Not sure how well they sail either.
Ron
Ha, ha, yes you have a point there.
As a slight aside….
Have you thought about making YouTube videos on how to make videos?
You are the expert after all.
Ha, like that phrase, “…pretend you are sailing a proper yacht”
During some unfortunate time off work I watched a few of your youtube videos and quite enjoyed them.
I’d love to do the trips but when I couldn’t work I didn’t have the money and now I don’t have the time and come to think of it still don’t have the money.
Might not be the right demographic but did you think about doing a kick starter campaign?
Main benefit being you’d know the amount of money before buying a boat and starting a trip.
Added to that there’s always patreon though I wouldn’t post any political on youtube as you’re almost sure to rub the wrong way 50% of folk.
You say that but what about Tomothy Spall’s voyage. Im not passing comment on anyone’s physical appearance, but ……you get the idea
Hi Dylan,
With an outboard!
I always had Dylan down as a catamaran type of sailor
More wife friendly and inside steering it would appear
http://yachts.apolloduck.co.uk/image.phtml?id=518401&image=3
They say once you go catamaran you never go back
Well … I’m lookin’ forward to the rest of the Scotland films to be released :-)
Dylan, I’m not sure whether your article has been recently (ie last few weeks) been altered, but I’m reading this as saying the last three films (ie incl the two Backwaters ones) have brought in more income. If so (& perhaps I’m completely misunderstanding) I really enjoy the East Coast stuff, and was really bored by the Orkneys/Shetland films to the point I unsubscribed. But I just wonder, why not do more EC films, get more money in, and then be able to get the Fischer 25 & do the Scottish stuff you want to do, ie the East Coast can subsidise the Scots films.
Dylan, find yourself a loud opinionated sailor and a small enthusiastic chap more inclined to powerboats and then take the three of you off to Amazon.
If Clarkson, May and Hammond can sting ’em for several million per episode, surely there’s a worldwide audience for watching three blokes mess about in boats all over the world? Especially if you don’t ask for too much money.
Maybe not Grand Tour, more “Bon Voyage”. Actually I’m copyrighting that right now… er, forget I said anything. As you were…
Yes, I am also looking forward to the remaining Scottish episodes – I have even imagined that the first one might be entitled “Escape from Loch ‘Orrible” – I was up there twenty years ago on a survey ship and it wasn’t a popular location with the lads – mind you their priorities were different from most of us old
timers!
Hi Dylan just popped a bit on paypal for you. and ran out of space in comment line.
As I was saying, You insired us to try sailing round GB. We departed East Cowes April 13th 2017. Your wise advice proved right. We had long stops waiting for ‘our’ weather in several places, memorable was Dover, Lowestroft, Grimsby [2 weeeks], Peterhead. we had poor weather through the Caledonian and Crinan [rain obscured the views plus all up-wind]. We finally got stuck in Stranraer, we needed a good forecast for Irish sea legs. In June after 10 days of rough weather sleepless nights rolling about on the marina pontoons, we gave up, and put Bloto on a lorry that had just delivered a boat from Plymouth. We got mast down in F6 and lift out in F6-7. Next day in Plymouth lifted in, mast up, sun shinning. We enjoyed the Tamar, the Yealm Newton Ferrers, and a leasurely trip back home by end July.
We met a lot of interesting people the only down side is realising how much we missed; after getting home it was such a huge anti-climax, and we are still unsure what to do next for adventure?
Thanks for your advice, we only sailed in weather/forecasts we could be comfortable in and therefore we are still pleased to be married [45 yrs last Sept.].
We tried to video the trip for our drooling days in a home, only to realise how difficult that is, you made yours soo good it looked easy the way you do it.
So thanks Dylan we owe you
Hi Dylan, sent you a bit through paypal (hope your email address was correct)
Its my thanks for the enjoyment i have had from watching you achieve what im yet to do, albeit i have an old wooden motor boat not a sail boat.
Hopefully come spring you find yourself back on track and we can all get back to watching you getting wet somewhere around scotland, although i love your east coast videos
Hi Dylan. I thought that the two films, Cape Wrath and Caledonia were the best yet. Stunning photography, great music and some good sailing to boot. Hurry up and get that new boat.
Hi Dylan, just enjoyed the “Cape Wrath” film & chipped in as I realised what a miserly amount I had contributed so far! I met you briefly at Dunstaffnage Marina when you popped aboard my old Southerly 28, Southern Swan. In my 2 years of constant visits I too have only scratched the surface of the West Coast and at the age of 73 hope to visit many more islands so don’t let age put you off! Looking forward to watching (and paying for!) any future films.
Hi,
Well who had the bright idea to name storm after our favourite inspirational sailor ? “Dylan”.
We are still struggling with where to sail in 2018; we missed so much on our trip this year: currently between the Thames estuary rivers, or the Brixhan to Penzance area.
We wish you fair winds in 2018 have good sailing year Dylan, sincerely hope you can film it.
Perry Simonne and Bertie
Hi Dylan,
Did you make any progress with the purchase of your new boat?
I chipped in a couple of days after Christmas, but realized there might be more I that can do.
Please send me a personal email so we can discuss some options.
Hi Dylan
My friend Phil(fellow MOB) introduced me to KTL a couple of years ago, and I have chipped a little to you in the past. Not enough obviously.
I’ll do a bit more today as a thank you for the hours of joy I have had the pleasure of sharing with you and your lovely family at times. It will be a tragedy to lose all you bring into our lives, and to lose the opportunity to experience places we only dream of. Some of us MOB’s do care, and back it up with a little cash. I really hope we can, between us, get the show back on the road. Good luck mate, and sincere thanks, from a Cornishman MOB. Paypal here we come.
Hi Dylan
I have contacted before but not on this email. I am coming to Shortley Marina tomorrow (16th Jan) to look at a boat. I am coming from Hereford and returning same day. I would love to meet up for a quick coffee. You got me into this boating and I would like to meet my hero, any chance ? (my hands free contact no 07786851051 , please don’t publish that).
Roger
Hi Dylan, I hope I’ve misunderstood the situation here. Are you going to have to wait for the income from the next 10 films before you buy your Fisher?
I was just catching up and wondered from where you might be starting the next leg of the journey. As far as I know we haven’t seen your red jib pass our window here in Beaumaris on Anglesey.
If you are this way please let our club the North West Venturers know and I’m sure you would be made very welcome here on the Menai Strait.
Good luck.
I am afraid that is correct – the project hit the buffers finally in January last year when I quickly sold the second Centaur in Glasgow. I needed the bills to stop. January is not a great time to sell a boat. I still have the 22 footer on the estuary close to the house in Suffolk. I have nine more films to make from the material I have already filmed in Scotland. After that I shall see where I stand. I had planned to spend a couple of years around the Irish sea and then a summer around the west coast of Ireland. Riding the tide down the Menai a few times is one of the experiences I want to film. I have stood on the bridge and watched that tide rip through there. Inspiring stuff.
Thanks for the invite.
If I fail to raise enough for a boat with inside steering then I will carry on sailing on the east coast in the trailer sailer until the pension kicks in when I am 67. Then I will go back to sail the west coast of scotland – probably just with a stills camera and a pen.
Dylan. I’ve done the Menai a number of times in my Marcon Tomahawk 25. I now have one to many boats – just bought a Moody 33. Throwing money away restoring her. If you would like a long term loan to potter around Wales shout up. Fin, tiller and outboard, so not exactly what you are looking for – but.
Love the films. Would love to see what you make of our eck of the woods.
eck is of course Welsh for neck!
2018 still available down to £12500 or best offer
Jill would veto the loo
not falling over would be wonderful though
Cheers Mate! I sent you $50 on PayPal. I am one of those who silently enjoyed your films over the last 3 and 1/2 years. I use Netflix to keep the winter at bay here in Portland, Oregon USA. So it makes sense to send you 5 months worth of their subscription, too. I too, am tired of the tits and click bait. I like your films and your narration. When I was a kid, I spent two years in Yorkshire, compliments of the US Army. Scarborough was a favorite get away spot. Your films bring back fond memories of my stay in your country. I sail a Sparkman and Stephens designed, Dolphin 24 on the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
Captain Hal
Hi Dylan!
Where are you and what are you up to?
thanks R,
I have looked at those…. I really like a boat that does not fall over when the tide goes out…. but the Colvic watson does not have a door. I am afraid that in scotland I need a door so that I can sail with the heater on. I love winter sailing down here in suffolk and the same in scotland. Down here I can sail for a day and then plug in or go home…. up there I need to stay warm and keep the gear dry.
D
Hi Dylan
just tapped you for a drink on me. I do not mind what drink as long as it warms the soul
if you remember last year i was in Essex fixing up my new boat. well end of summer we got her semi finished and couldn’t remain where we were, so with the wrong sails of we went with 4 on board. by the time we got to Brighton the engine and snuffed it so the remainder of our journey was with sails and by god we got here in October it was a nightmare but now at my home port i can finish fixing the old girl and go on around the UK. YOU was a major inspiration for my plans after watching every video you have ever posted some two or four times!!!!. I Really hope we meet sailing around at some point in the future.
Have a good one mate! Nathan S.V Anigh Fall
Down to £10,500 and open to offers now! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232685504366?ul_noapp=true
Surely you can sort out the bog with some of the savings? Only just found your videos but enjoying them so far and will definitely be sending some money to the boat fund when payday comes around.
Hello Dylan
I’m probably going to bore you by going over old ground with regards to tapping and how the money is used or invested for whatever? The first film I found quite by accident was one in which you drifted down the River Ouse from Nayburn Lock, a section of river I know quite well and found very interesting and entertaining. I simply enjoyed that one video and shut down not realising that it was one of a series. don’t know how I missed that but there you go. Weeks later I wanted to watch the same film again put in a search and came across the KTL blog and randomly picked another adventure to devour, unfortunately it began with you complaining about freeloaders. My first thought was that here is a guy who wants to enjoy himself and for others to pay for it, I just shut down and didn’t watch anymore..
Some time later I was out sailing and my crew asked if I was aware of the KTL site and that he followed your progress religiously and that he had subscribed to your blog. this prompted me to have another look. I absolutely buried myself within KTL 5 The Wash to The Humber an excellent piece of work with lots of personal interest to me. I made a donation, the point of my ramblings is this.. I don,t give two hoots what the money is used for it is just a small gesture from me to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to share your adventure. Incidentally I have not taken interest in viewers comments previously, I did tonight and just felt the need to offer my thoughts.
All The Best Dylan
Geoff
Hello Dylan
Thank you for putting these films and accounts together, these have certainly given me an urge to get me and the boat up to sail around beautiful Scotland. I really hope that you get the chance to do some more sailing and filming in the near future. We have all got so used to all this ‘free’ content on the web that I can see why many of us find it hard to cough up, but I think that you’ve done a good job of explaining and nudging/prompting. I don’t give a moment’s thought as to whether I’m rewarding for the older works or contributing towards possible future films, in fact selfishly, I’m rather hoping it could be the latter. Best wishes
Phil.
“I can guarantee that it will go on another boat ” Really Dylan….. this is “edge of the seat stuff”. Keep tantalizing the MOBs it keeps us all on board and awake. P.
Hi Dylan.
Lots of exchanges going on in this thread. I note that the first response was just over a year ago, and while I understand that little or nothing can be done without funding in one form or another, I am just not clear on where this is really all leading. It is a chicken and egg, and cockerel situation, which comes first, the money, the boat, whatever, to actually make a reality of it all. There are still 7 or 8 films in the can to be put out there. There is still the question of to Fisher or not to Fisher. There are vague thoughts about sailing and filming the Irish Sea, and maybe later around the west coast of Ireland. No doubt given your expertise and the results to date, the films of such voyages would be stunning. So what is to happen next, and is it actually going to be 2019 rather than this year? Best wishes. Ted
Dylan,
Forgive me if I sound impertinent, but is the cold in the west of Scotland your only problem?
You’ve sailed the English and Scottish east coasts in boats with no inside steering. You still have Katie L., which, I understand, you can take anywhere on het trailer.
Why not leave the west coast of Scotland for the time being and continue below te Mersey, following the coast of Wales/Ireland to the West Country?
Maybe Katie L is not the boat for crossing the Irish Sea, but hopping along the coast of Wales, you would be sailing again in new waters. And we would see new horizons as well..
Or is it a must to do the circumnavigation of the British Isles in the correct order, without a lapse? Even if that lapse could be filled in later?
—
greetings from the Netherlands, where spring is slow in arriving..
Hans Valk
Love your films Dylan. Watched them for years. For free! Sorry.
Sorry again that you don’t get the financial support you need or deserve to carry on. You’re dead right that the bikini girls and the chiselled torsoed boys are more than a little vacuous to guys and girls of our generation, but that’s life. Their audience is their audience and yours is yours.
You are a good artisan short film making. Hope you find a way to continue and if not thanks for the films. However like all addicts I suspect you will find a way to fund your habit!
And one final sorry. No you can’t have any of my cash as I need it for my own project. But I encourage everyone else to give you theirs as I would rather miss your films.
Yours
Freeloading winge bag. 😀
I don’t know what a Fisher 25 goes for, but here’s an idea. Are there enough MOBs to allow each to donate to the purchase of your next boat? People like to be part of something larger than themselves and being a, sort of, plankholder of your boat would probably appeal to a number of them. Two hundred MOBs, each contributing $100 would make $20,000 available for your purchase. Come up with a snappy name for the bunch and it might work.
OK, so how ‘bout the plankholder plan to purchase the boat, followed by a return to ongoing funding by subscriptions. Surely you could get the cheap bastards, that includes me, to chip in $5 or $10 a month – a bargain for the education, enjoyment, and escape your videos provide.
Hi Dylan,
I love your videos and it’s not just because you, like I, grew up on the Orwell. 25 years living by the Pacific brings me a little yearning for mud. Fingers crossed you find a video distributor or your followers make the donkey fatter. You don’t know what you’ve got till…
Hi Dylan. Just completed KTL yr 8 Scotland Ep.12 having started at the start. Taken me several weeks of several hours per evening. Totally inspirational effort, and gutted you had to sell the centaur. Tapped in to your sailing fund this evening. Hope you get the new boat you need, and back out there. Best wishes from Melbourne Australia.
Have just discovered your films and looking forward to your continuation of the west coast Scotland trips. Sailed ktl as my millenium cruise in 2000 but chickened out at Inverness inSeptember and took the caledonian way home ( home is Oban area). However sank my yacht in June 2004 so been landbound since! It was a 30ft Hartley Custom Sister but had far to much sail ^00 sq ft for the same weight as the Centaur.
Would like to contribute thru Paypal but I can only find a dollar sign at the amount. Please advise.
Correction 600 sq ft should reread before posting!
£s or dollars… it makes no odds to paypal – it all grinds thrugh the sme system
but there shoud be some strerling links top right on the please pay page
D
Hi Dylan loved all the videos i have watched upto now thinking of getting a small sailing boat myself must say i have watched the bikini crews too but never donated to them.I hope you get back in your boat soon and probably will donate not sure how much it will help but best wishes to you .
ps what is the sprung binded book you used for reference on the Humber to Forth little clue where i am from if you passed me and said hello it would have been alright mate
Hello Dylan, I’m a bit lost on what is still happening on your blog and site.
Just looked at the ‘Brothers in Arms’-video that is now at the end of this blog. Is this the latest addition.
Has anything changed as far as a new boat and going to Scotland again is concerned.
What’s the state of affairs?
Hans from Holland
Dylan, just to be sure; are the films under KTL8, page 1 (ending with the second Centaur going up the Clyde to be sold) the last films you put on your site?
I must admit that I completely missed the fact that there was a second Centaur plus the fact that you sailed her up the Irish Sea. Was there a film made about that journey?
As far as your tempo of publishing films is concerned; take your time!
—
Hans from Holland
I have not been on this Blog, or your your You Tube Channel for a good while. I have been going through some changes of direction and contemplation about my own You Tube Channel ‘The Captain’s Blog’ which has been left to settle for a good while too.
I was saddened to go to your channel today and find it devoid of content. I then popped on over here and read a few posts and am trying to figure out things.
We all have our reasons to change course in life, and should not feel obliged to ‘social media’ to keep going at something we may not feel in our heart is still what we may wish, despite a clamouring following keen for the next update. I wanted to leave this here simply to say over the years you inspired me, gave me a deeper understanding of what boating is really about and how solitude on the water is one of the best medicines in life.
I loved the sailing videos, but equally the far more simple ‘KTL Industries’ and talking about projects, ideas and even food and books added real charm. As long as you’re doing fine is the main thing. Keep Turning Left and you will go mad in a circle, perhaps it is time for a right hander to keep things fresh.
Hi,
Sorry, but I am late to the Party and just got here. Read some, but not the lot of the above, to an idea of what is going on.
Two suggestions;
a) Do a specially funded project to video some girls on boats in Scotland. Given the weather up North, there’d be an awful lot of hard nipple and it would have nothing to do with tumescent camera handlers (Jeez, you must have an eye for detail. Do they really have videos of that on Youtube?). You’ll make a fortune but, yes, it would be creepy-weird having an old guy do it. However, there are niche markets for everything these days.
b) Try a Kingfisher 20.
Blondie Haslar, not a man to shy from more adventurous sailing, spent much time navigating tight corners of Scotland in a junk rigged one.
Both I and my knees could see the appeal of a Fisher 25, especially one with an fully enclosed doghouse for West Coast weather. However, smaller boats are exponentially cheaper. You could even trailer it.
If that does not wet your whistle, and you’re after a full keeler this time round, keep an eye on some of the Scandinavian boats or motor-sailers. There’s a whole other world over there to film too.
https://www.blocket.se/hela_sverige/batar?ca=11&cg=1060&c=1062
Dylan,
Just done a Guiness and Bacon tour of the ring of Kerry. It’s your world all those estuaries to explore. Look forward to seeing some footage one day!
Pete
Just checking in and hoping you are sailing and filming and enjoying the spring in your muddy river.
–Kevin
Dylan –
Erik Aanderaa gets over $600 per film on Patreon and only produces one every few months.
CountryHouseGent (not young and hunky, no bikinis) also has Patreon and now releases his films on Amazon Prime – he has only been going a couple of years. He used to have pay per video on Vimeo and started off on Youtube – now he relies on a mix of income streams as far as I can see. All of these people also promote their material on Facebook – not difficult.
Your content is easily classy enough to be on Amazon.
In my opinion, you should have left your stuff on Youtube with ad revenue (you had a lot of subscribers) and added a Patreon option. I do not have Paypal and cannot get it – I cannot donate to your channel. Lots of people cannot or will not use Paypal for various reasons.
PS There is a Fisher 25 for £7k at Seedhouse – I assumet you would have seen it and there are issues with it?
Good luck!
(not an old bloke, but a middle-aged woman who took up sailing because of you)
Oh Dylan, just when you were getting to the west coast of Britain as well. I am sorry that things haven’t worked out. I miss your films. Very much, have tapped. As well,
G
Dylan – I guess you don’t have Facebook and I don’t know what your budget is, but a beautiful boat has just come up for sale on there very cheap. It’s £10k – A steel 36ft Roamer, bilge keel (triple) motorsailer ketch. Spacious accommodation – needs wood rubbing down and varnishing, new macerator for the loo and a solenoid for the starter. An absolute bargain. It’s in Grimsby I think. I don’t think it’s advertised elsewhere.
Hi Dylan,
Not quite sure where you are regarding boat ownership right now. If you’re still looking, would you like to borrow a Varne 27 for a year or two? We’re having time-out in Australia and the friends who have been boat sitting have outgrown her. The only trouble is that she’s in Exeter!
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?370618-Varne-27
Will
Hi Dylan, I have a cunning plan… There is a Centaur in Plymouth for sale for a tiny amount. Add a Diesel fuelled hot air heater from Planar (Nice chap Paul Stephens he invited me on his boat) you could buy it now fit the heater before christmas and be toasty warm while filming in January.
Hi Dylan. Do you still have dvds for sale? I would very much like to buy a copy of Season 4.
I bought a copy of Season 2 some time ago and it has given us much pleasure – we have a mooring at Ramsholt (Gimbler) and it is our home territory.
Many years ago (40 – 50) we sailed dinghy at Blakeney, Morston, Wells etc and love that area. The downloads work ok on computer and tablet but not on the old tv.
So hope you can oblige – tell me what to send.
Very best wishes to you, Peter
Just started watching. And paying in hopes I’ve not missed the boat here. What is going on for you and your saga