Once we got to Whitby Jill took a look at the map and decided that she did not like the look of the next part of the journey.
What she said was - "well if you are going up the Tyne and the Tees I am going home".
don't make me do this by myself lads.... I did this for you... stick with me... please
Actually it was more interesting than she thought it was going to be
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Didn’t seem that grotty to me – but maybe it smelt bad. Looking forward to next installments.
Have you looked at Alex Tritten’s YT films? He sails a Macwester 27 from Holyhead across to Brittany, then Spain, Portugal and Morocco and then across to Madeira and Azores before returning to Spain. He is French but the videos are in English. They are good, especially the aerial shots from a kite.
If you HAD decided to go up to the the barrage it would have got easier and you’d have got a few more great shots for the “historical record” as MS puts it, and there are a few great wildlife extras, but I still think you did well even to get through to the transporter before you lost your nerve, as the Tees is definitely an unofficial “out of bounds” (to the likes of you!) area. Paddy’s Hole too is a sort of special club, so congratulations….um….I think, on becoming an associate member. You must either be a bit special too, or a hell of a lot harder than you look! Jill was right to leave you to it!
Sort of. Southerner really but moved up for uni, married into a smoggy family, and I’ve been kept as an exotic souvenir ever since. When you were describing your feedback system after Saltburn you were about to go sailing past us in Marske… except you cut to the windmills and denied us our moment of fame. We’ll have to wait for the next intrepid explorer into darkest North Yorkshire…Teesside….Cleveland… Never quite sure which even now.
This video is a particular treat for me, because of my interest in industrial history. On several occasions in the 1970’s I visited a construction yard at Port Clarence, just beside the Transporter Bridge. On this site they fabricated parts of the Thames Barrier equipment. Later they constructed “topsides” for offshore drilling platforms.
I would have loved to have got a trip along the Tees in any sort of vessel, but no such opportunity was offered.
The importance of your videos Dylan is that they create a record of a passage in time, with an engaging commentary drawing the viewer into a broader consideration of what they are seeing.
Scenes of industry may not be beautiful, but they do show us the ingenuity of human skills, which must be admired and even cherished. Somewhere along the line industry will have operated (however indirectly) to provide each of us with the ability to spend some of our time simply as passers-by (or even watchers from the shore).
Mike
The Tees I’ve been in there never thought of it as a place to sail for fun. Just been to the industrial parts. Enjoyed the film seeing a different perspective. Truthfully I’d almost forgotten I was there.
You find yourself performing various tasks in a short time period.
We all have a restricted time and sometimes the list of things to be done outrun the time limit.
But … it’s just effective if you examine it daily.
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