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Am I the only one to chuckle at “Meths” on the Tap-List?
That’s the spirit. P.
Thank you for the very interesting film i am really enjoying watching your hard work in maintaining a high level of interest you show towards sailing.
watching all the way from Cyprus at 3 o clock in the morning
I downloaded off you tube and it came out backwards!! Hey?
Another delight, Dylan. Summer in Scotland looks like a winter’s day here in California – hardy folk, and hardy you and Jill. Well I recall the companionway position from sailing San Francisco Bay on my Dad’s partners boat when I was a kid – so cozy. But often received the comment, “Only boots and Marines stand in companionways” – whatever that meant! Enjoyed the bit on tides and gravity. I like it that there are still so many great mysteries to understand.
And so you should be, she’s one in a million!
Wonderful Dylan…”ape-fisted approximation…” very nice along with so much else.
Jill had her saunter on heading down the beach in one shot. How fun. You both seem to take a lot of joy in your travels. A keeper indeed.
Love the companionway myself and it is aften a good place to lodge those who are discomfited by the heel and motion of the boat but don’t want to mis anything.
I had a giggle at that!
I’ve always liked that with a tiller’d boat you can sit in the front-end of the cockpit under the dodger, or stand in the companionway, and still steer. …Versus a big-honking Destroyer-wheel and binnacle in the far-stern of the cockpit where you get wet…and where you have to stand on the cockpit benches just to get around the da**ed-thing. I would be hesitant single-hand an aft-cockpit sailboat on a long journey with a binnacle-and-wheel unless it had a decent-functioning autopilot, preferably with a wind-direction sensor.
That said, binnacle-and-wheel set-up are fine for larger center-cockpit sailboats where you are closer to the center-of-gravity and can safely get-around the wheel to the controls.
I am spoiled, I have a nice tiller for sitting up to windward on sunny days, and a wheel in the cabin. With a seat, for conning the boat when it’s miserable.
Thanks for this film Dylan; most enjoyable. Maybe I’ll get my trailer sailer up there one day…
As others commented, I too enjoyed the “ape fisted approximation” quote.
You refer to the Higgs as the “God particle”; I assume you realise that Higgs used that name in the “oh gawd” sense, rather than implying any supernatural involvement? In fact I think he wanted to call it by a less repeatable name ;)
Does the Higgs Boson help the average sailor to understand tides any more than mighty Kraken’s ventilation?
really liked this one – felt quite melancholy (or maybe just my mood) and it was good to see the yellow blob in the sky :)
Hi Dylan,
I agree with all the compliments about your latest release.
Something caught my ear in your commentary, and further to Charles’s comment re his trailor sailor – did you say that you’d been to Orkney with Jill in the E-boat ?
If so, did you trail it up, and where did you launch from and how long did you spend up there ?
Especially interesting as I sat next to a chap at the RAF club talk who said he’d sailed round Britain in a Wayfarer dinghy in a series of separate weeks.
If all true, then I think I’m now inspired to have an ambition to trail up there one fine Summer when I have more time.
Warm regards,
Jeremy J
Beautiful photography!
Thought the music was too florid for your type of film, the more laid-back, folky and peaceful kinds in your previous videos is more suitable in my view- but that’s just personal taste I suppose.
The word ‘rost’ pronounced as ‘roost’ got me thinking that it possibly derives from the Scandinavian ‘røst’ which means ‘voice’ (the pronunciation would be more ‘roest’ but there isn’t really an equivalent sound in English). You also describe one of them as murmuring in the background, or something similar, so possibly they were referred to as ‘voices’ in the past because of the continual noise they make. There are quite a few other Danish /Norwegian descriptions of land, as seen from the sea, with human-like descriptions: nose, throat, ear, mouth etc. and some of these are still used in English place names (Ness, -or, etc.) Just another piece of essentially useless but interesting conjecture …
Magnificent sailing environment — though a bit cold. No wonder you didn’t take Katie-L up there, definitely too small and light for the conditions. I’m surprised there weren’t more boats about, but you are (were?) 550-miles north of London on the same latitude as Hudson Bay, Canada..
I’m a wimp, I’d want something like Drake Roberts enclosed center-cockpit Westsail-42 Paragon for extensive sailing in Northern waters. (If I had the budget !!) Though his piloting standing on a box with his head through a hatch in the canopy like a U-boat captain bugs me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPfU-4eGxc&index=1&list=PLOhEGypVYJG3lBpf9rrfVubIvHHfc9She
Dylan – I appreciate the sentiment and would not want to defend Google inc. However some of us simply use Small smart phones and have nice big smart TVs with YouTube apps. These don’t behave like a web browser and let you click on an alternative, or for that matter support Vimeo. For us it’s simply a video to watch backwards. This does not diminish the estimable quality of the visual experience but the narrative is s bit weak.
I’m sure I heard a clear reference to devil worship in there.
Toodle pip. Christopher
Enjoy your videos so much Dylan. I get drawn into them and it reminds me of, when I was a lad, going to “the pictures” and then feeling a total dis-connect with reality when I came out at the end of a film. They even make me think that perhaps I should do something similar. I know I won’t because I have too many different interests, not enough time and besides I’ve now become too soft living here in Portugal. It takes a great deal of focused enthusiasm to do what you and Jill are doing – great stuff.
Very good.
Last summer was crap though. I’m not saying it’s ever as warm as South Coast sailors would find comfortable but last year wasn’t normal. we had fresh snow on the tops when we were in the Caley on the first of June, you need to be hardy, sad but true.
Was it neaps when you came down the Sound of Luing? Those numbers you were quoting we regularly see in the sound of Jura and up towards the bottom of Lismore, it’s interesting sailing with lots of swirly bits. If it’s about the same up there I’m tempted to go up for a look. Of course the crap weather and midges compensate, you can barely see the scenery for the clouds of insects or rain.
Marvellous, marvellous, cheered up my day, now on my list of places to go.
The new interactive map is wonderful, and it makes following where you are sailing easier — especially around all the islands in the Orkneys. While I’ve read plenty of military histories that reference Scapa Flow, I somehow never had a sense of the true scale of the place, What a wonderful and invigorating sailing ground.
Though I’m astounded that even in Summer you’re typically the only boat on the water. So different than the Solent or the Essex and Suffolk rivers…