Seven Spades
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So are you going to continue your journey or is that up in the air? If so where will you start from, will you pick up where you left off? Is the plan to go back to the KatieL?
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dylanwinter
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doug748
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A small digression, from someone who knows nowt but is trying to do the right thing.
Do you still film at 720 and c 25 frames?
Is there any reason for a novice to use a higher resolution/frame rate?
I download to Youtube.
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dylanwinter
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I film at the full blatt - and make the films at that but I export them at 720 because up untikl now laptops and tablets would choke on the high data stream.
the ground is shifting now and you tube does a brilliant job of HD - and compresses it to four alternative sizes as well
so in my opinion it is worth doing it all in HD which is 1920 x 1080
the bigger size is coming now though
dom
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It was good while it lasted though and at times the subs and DVD sales covered the sailing and film making costs.
the journey will continue - as will the blogging - but the days of flogging films are probably over.
So sad to hear that your business mosel has taken a turn for the worse. I looked at one of your films for the first time the other night (the East Coast one with boat tipped to one side) and was impressed with the quality of the script, the photography, your narration and the steady gentle flow of the editing.
It's easily good enough raw material for a TV programme and I cannot help wonder if "us lot" could collectively help to kick-start something which works for you commercially.
...just a thought really; in any case thanks for the films to help while away the remaining winter months and Happy New Year!
dylanwinter
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thanks for saying that
I prefer making films for my fellow sailors rather than TV wonks
just imagine if I had got a BBc contract
we would have rushed around in a few months pretending and posing and using a big fat yacht and a lorry and staying in hotels. I have done lots of TV in the past and it is not much fun and a million miles away from reality. I have met some great blokes along the way
nice men who have kept an eye on the boat, pumped her out, left whisky on the boat and offered me showers
as for changing the model - that is fine too
the technology changes..... so we adapt
the pipes have got fatter, the cameras are better(but still hate getting wet). I love my sailing and the films remind me of all osrts of stuff I have fogotten already.
I am a very, very happy bloke
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mrming
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Oops - went to keepturningleft.co.uk - thought I was donating but it seems I became a member instead. Hopefully it amounts to the same thing donation wise! Keep up the great work! 
PaulJS
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Hi Dylan,
Firstly I would like to wish you and yours a very happy 2015.
Sorry to hear that the KTL DVD's are becoming defunct as although I am of a similar vintage to yourself I still prefer to load a film into the machine, rather than searching the contents of a hard drive or memory stick, however I shall just have to adapt I suppose.
I have to agree with your conclusion that involvement with a commercial TV company or Auntie would have detracted from the substance of KTL, but then again I do remember watching "Out of Town" with Jack Hargreaves very gently presenting subject matter that was completely atypical of offerings being broadcast at the time.
Anyway, however your films are disbursed in future I hope to be able to follow your wanderings around our coast, and just hope that the upper reaches of the Solway Firth don't escape your attentions.
All the best,
Paul
Firstly I would like to wish you and yours a very happy 2015.
Sorry to hear that the KTL DVD's are becoming defunct as although I am of a similar vintage to yourself I still prefer to load a film into the machine, rather than searching the contents of a hard drive or memory stick, however I shall just have to adapt I suppose.
I have to agree with your conclusion that involvement with a commercial TV company or Auntie would have detracted from the substance of KTL, but then again I do remember watching "Out of Town" with Jack Hargreaves very gently presenting subject matter that was completely atypical of offerings being broadcast at the time.
Anyway, however your films are disbursed in future I hope to be able to follow your wanderings around our coast, and just hope that the upper reaches of the Solway Firth don't escape your attentions.
All the best,
Paul
dylanwinter
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I could still make them and send them out as home burners - no fancy printing
as for the solway firth
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/07/39/073954_0696c722.jpg
just my cup of tea
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JumbleDuck
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I think you're going to like it here ... there are lots of places for which Katie L will be idea: Drummore, Port William, Isle of Whithorn, Wigtown and the Bladnoch (distillery visit by boat!), Fleet Bay and islands, the old canal to Gatehouse of Fleet, the Dee to Kirkcudbright, the Urr to Dalbeattie, the Nith to Kingholm and Dumfries, the Annan ... and that's just a few of the Scottish possibilities.
Both boats I have had in the sea here - the resident and the visitor - have been deep and therefore rubbish for the area, but I plan to do some of them in the Hunter 490 some time.
prv
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Definitely worth advertising - I know if I'd bought the DVDs so far I'd be miffed at having a perpetually half-finished collection. Home burned with an inkjet-printed label would do, whereas "you can watch it on the Internet for as long as Dylan keeps paying for Vimeo" doesn't really count.
Pete
EdWingfield
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Dylan, or anyone, is there a trick to organising the films so they appear to me in order?
Forgive me but I'm retired now and I've lost the support of young people who'd sort the old fool out.
Forgive me but I'm retired now and I've lost the support of young people who'd sort the old fool out.
dylanwinter
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Ed,
they should all be in order on the website
and with the vimeo ones if you just bung them in a folder on your computer then chronology, geography and alphabetically they should all be in perfect harmony - good name a boat that I reckon
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Caer Urfa
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Hi Dylan
Happy new year to you and fair winds for 2015.
Sorry I missed you when you were in the Tyne as I am sure it might have been you anchored off Tynemouth just behind the North pier when I came in once and did not come over as you looked
well inshore and I was not sure of the depth.
One question if you don't mind me asking, what was the depth you found when you went 'upriver passed Sunderland bridge', sure did look nice but I thought it looked shallow but maybe I am wrong!!
Enjoyed watching your films by the way, my only suggestion maybe at times is to mention depths which would be of interest to us all.
Mike
Happy new year to you and fair winds for 2015.
Sorry I missed you when you were in the Tyne as I am sure it might have been you anchored off Tynemouth just behind the North pier when I came in once and did not come over as you looked
well inshore and I was not sure of the depth.
One question if you don't mind me asking, what was the depth you found when you went 'upriver passed Sunderland bridge', sure did look nice but I thought it looked shallow but maybe I am wrong!!
Enjoyed watching your films by the way, my only suggestion maybe at times is to mention depths which would be of interest to us all.
Mike
dylanwinter
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Mike, I did spend an hour or two at the mouth of the tyne waiting for the tide to turn - and I could see the bottom so it must have been shallow
I thought the upper wear was lovely - a real treat
It was shallow in places but I would guess that there must have been 3m in the channel - a lot of water pours down there
nothing to worry a twin keeler - but if you boat is of the type that falls over then you would need to be a bit more cautious
even a single keeler on a rising tide should certainly be able to get to the small bridge where I turned back
there was plenty of water on the wildlife pontoon
I reckon you could have some lovely peaceful nights up the wear
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sa...eepturningleft-season-6-the-wear-revelations/
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PS - sorry about not mentioning the depth enough - I am bit worried that people might treat the films as a sort of free pilot - which would be really dangerous ..... it best to regard all information supplied in them as being certainly innacurate and mostly made up
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prv
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dylanwinter
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Is that a Buckler with a wheelhouse added? Crazy upon crazy...
Pete
I have already had an email remonstrating me from a man who has taken exception to my mumbled comment on the boat
however, it is not going far so few people will get to see it and I doubt that I will ever meet him
having said that..... you could do a lot of miles in one of those and I would be very happy to spend a summer sailing one - provided a nice man had fitted £6,000 worth of reliable inboard to it
one heck of a stern to reach an outboard on the transom - maybe a well would be a good idea
there were lots of days in scotland when a full cabin would have been a jolly good thing to have
when we got to Lerwick a bloke turned up in his motor sailor and stepped ashore in his slippers
we had experienced a really wet windy day - Jill needed feeding scotch by four
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bitbaltic
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Well I downloaded all of season 6 as I had been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to get the DVD! never mind.
I believe I have supplied you with some batteries, a bike tyre and shown my appreciation for transporter bridges in gratitude. However you distribute the films in future, please keep sailing and making them.
Cheers
I believe I have supplied you with some batteries, a bike tyre and shown my appreciation for transporter bridges in gratitude. However you distribute the films in future, please keep sailing and making them.
Cheers
dylanwinter
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thanks for that - it will go straight into boat stuff
there are two more films for KTL 6 to be uploaded and then I will make a v simple DVD signed with the name of the sailor and stuck in a little envelope
I will srend them out the old way through the post and no need to pay until they arrive
sorry about the change of formats along the way
I expect it will change again
drones are coming along nicely and filming the boat as it sails as opposed to hanging over the side witha camera on a pole will be lovely
blimey the web, our computers and tellies have have come a long way since I started in 2008
now youtube delivers higher def images than DVDs
people would complain if I was still delivering soupy 480p images
fortunately 3d has yet to catch on
but the boat technology has pretty much stood still - same GPS, compass working on something called magnetism, UHF radio
the smart phone has arrived and weather forecats have improved wonderfully
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