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dylanwinter

dylanwinter

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www.keepturningleft.co.uk
105 films covering


South Coast from Bembridge eastwards, Chichester harbour(more to come in the Centaur Solent films} Rye, Dover, Medway, Thames, Roach,Crouch, Blackwater, Colne, Walton Backwaters, Stour, Orwell, Deben, Alde, Ore, Butley, Blythe, Broads, Yare, Waveney, Bure, Ant, Thurne, North Norfolk coast, Wash, Nene, Boston, Humber, Trent, Ouse, North Sea ports and havens between the Humber and Edindburgh including the Tees, Wear and Tyne.

seven brilliant years of sailing and exploring

Now that the bottom has fallen out of the DVD market all the films are up for freemans for downloading or streaming to your lovely new 50 inch super tellies. I saw some the other night streaming straight from Vimeo to a really good telly and apart from the bits where some great ugly old man triple chinned mop haired fizzog fills the scereen then they look jolly good. The HD camera and Vimeo do an excellent job of bringing the North Sea into your front room.

naggingly entertaining speciously hypothecated donations have covered the costs of vimeo pro for a year plus gone some way from towards the costs of winter storage

- feel free to burn them onto disk or memory sticks to give to bandwidth challenged fellow sailors or to wacth on your laptop while hiding from a storm. Even on a laptop they look pretty good and linking up some half decent USB speakers to the laptop makes a big difference to the experience. I have also looked at them on an Ipad mini - they look okay on there too

I have no idea how long they will stay up on vimeo - the policies of the streaming companies change all the time as the market shifts

It was good while it lasted though and at times the subs and DVD sales covered the sailing and film making costs. I have really enjoyed the feedback and the advice about good places to stay and visit has been wonderful. The advice ab out which are the good restaurants has been comprehensively ignored because they are all way out of my league. I have been steered to some excellent chip shops and greasy spoons though.

As per usual I have no idea what the future holds other than selling an excellent Centaur now priced at £9,900

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/harmony-for-sale-10000/

the journey will continue - as will the blogging - but the days of flogging films are probably over.

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What a shame the BBC never bit. Imagine a wee 'best of ktl' on BBC4, they could have paid you in Fray Bentos, Petrol, and candles.
Will look forward to catching up on the films.
 
Kelpie said:
What a shame the BBC never bit. Imagine a wee 'best of ktl' on BBC4, they could have paid you in Fray Bentos, Petrol, and candles.
Will look forward to catching up on the films.
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It is good that they did not. I have really enjoyed making the films for other sailors not for depraved black rollneck wearing london based TV producers who would have turned the thing into some sort of race against time, made me out to be a complete duffer and loaded the boat onto a truck for the next shot.

I have learned a huge amount about our lovely island and I expect to sail on until I slip off the pontoon into the murky ice cold east coast fast flowing tidal waters 25 years from now.

D
 
Whatever changes, I and I'm sure many others thoroughly enjoy your films and thank you for sharing them. Despite being a 'Lozenge' sailor, I have learnt much from your films, enjoyed your sometimes ' tongue in cheek ' commentary and hope you find the financial incentive to continue. Like as has already been said, I too can't believe there isn't sufficient material there for the Bbc or similar to make a very interesting and entertaining programme suitable for a general audience. I wish you the best for 2015.
 
dylanwinter said:
As per usual I have no idea what the future holds other than selling an excellent Centaur now priced at £9,900
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& somewhere I seem to recall you said (or hinted) they could be bought for £ 1500-00
a bit of capatilism creeping in here I suspect:encouragement:
Not that there is any harm in that of course

So the next comment is " what happens next" do we keep turning left, or has the screw tightened too much?
 
Daydream believer said:
& somewhere I seem to recall you said (or hinted) they could be bought for £ 1500-00
a bit of capatilism creeping in here I suspect:encouragement:
Not that there is any harm in that of course

So the next comment is " what happens next" do we keep turning left, or has the screw tightened too much?
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that was a centaur with a fekked engine

this one has a fine volvo replacement - shiny and low hours

I have the films in the can from this summer - they will be editied and posted this winter.

then I will have the capital released from the Centaur to use to sail this coming summer

after that....

who knows?

to some extent the ongoing supply of films will depend, as it always has, on the generosity of my fellow sailors. If they click my cunningly contrived, wittily worded and speciously hypothecated donate buttons enough times then I will carry on making the good quality films. If their value is a perceived zilch then I shall just buy one of those lovely fisheye go pros and slam rock music over any footage that leaks onto the web.

It has been a great ride so far

D
 
Daydream believer said:
Where is the boat -katy l-currently parked-
One assumes that will be where the next chapter begins
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I have yet to make and post the films from shetland and orkney. Katie L is currently near edinburgh, harmony is near Glasgow. So I am expecting to spend six weeks up the forth and tay and then go through the forth and clyde before heading back to the Minches.

D
 
If Dylan's work is offered for free a lot of people will take it because it is free. Surely the answer is to charge everyone a small amount and if they don't like to pay a little, they are blood suckers so let them go elsewhere?
 
Croak said:
I'm a bloodsucker, I did.
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nothing wrong with downloading them

I never know who has downloaded them and it does not cost me a pennyin bandwidth anymore - it is now a fixed £200 a year for the vimeo

after you have taken them they are still there so how can it be wrong?

I would like to ad this sponsored reference to Fray Bentos pies, Farmer green's garden centre of the flower pots and Ikea for the forkandles
 
dylanwinter said:
I have yet to make and post the films from shetland and orkney. Katie L is currently near edinburgh, harmony is near Glasgow. So I am expecting to spend six weeks up the forth and tay and then go through the forth and clyde before heading back to the Minches.

D
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What, not coming back up this way and going through the Calley (saves dismasting)? Shame I was hoping to meet up with you on your way past. I missed you last time as you were in a hurry.
 
ProDave said:
What, not coming back up this way and going through the Calley (saves dismasting)? Shame I was hoping to meet up with you on your way past. I missed you last time as you were in a hurry.
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I am going up the tay but not up to the Moray

I had a look at the Cally and it looked a bit grim

I also fancy taking the boat around the wheel

as for dropping the mast

easy peasy on Katie L

It can be down in less than the time it takes to write this post

D
 
Thanks for the feedback chaps

I think that the vids looks better on vimeo and there is far less clutter around the image

there are also no little in-screen adverts on the end for women in bikinis and boys braining themselves on skateboards, lovely kittens etc.

The later files were uploaded at 720p - and are around a gig each, Vimeo offers three different compressions and access to the original film as well as one upscaled by them

I really only finished uploading the rest of the films yesterday so it is hard to derive trends

Usually downloads go up in number in number after the new year - and what with the bleuch weather and few of us on either side of the atlantic sailing that much at the moment then the hits should be pretty good

yesterday there were just under 1000 downloads - earlier over the christmas period it was averaging around 300 - mostly on the more recent films

people are clearly now digging back through the older films - which are not entirely bad - although I find themhard to watch as I have a terrible desire to pull them down and remkae them.

the speciously hypothecated boxes re working okay I think -

yesterday the donations were

5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 5, 5, 3, 4

so £42 - which jolly good and with any luck the films should earn enough to cover the vimeo and google earth bills as well as the winter yard bill and a contribution towards the dead camera fund

The great thing about the web is that if one model works you can spend a few days on the laptop and re-configure the way it works. It is hardly surprising given the way the web is going that platforms and revenue streams will have to pay

just think of the number of web comopanies that have gone bellyup since I started in 2008 - a lot of water under the bridge and the boats have also gone under a lot of bridges.

D
 
dylanwinter said:
I am going up the tay but not up to the Moray

I had a look at the Cally and it looked a bit grim

I also fancy taking the boat around the wheel

as for dropping the mast

easy peasy on Katie L

It can be down in less than the time it takes to write this post

D
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Done the Forth & Clyde and Union canal in a hired narrowboat.

You will be fine on the Forth & clyde, but if you are hoping to get Katie L up to Edinburgh on the Union canal you may have draft issues, our hired NB touched bottom many times on the way and that was probably 2ft 6 draft.
 
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