Another Sailing "Crazy Gap Year" on Channel 4

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This is the intro for the series final "My Family's Crazy Gap Year" on Channel 4

Gary Fisher always thought there must be more to life than a car in the garage and a mortgage round his neck, and now he plans to find out.

Gary wants to see if it's possible for a welder from Warrington to take on the middle class dream and buy an ocean-going yacht and sail his wife and twin toddlers to America.

But the only way he can afford his dream is to do all the restoration work on the boat himself. Over two gruelling years he spends every penny, and every spare minute of his time attempting to get the boat on the water. But as the yacht nears completion his marriage falls apart.

This film charts the emotional journey of a man whose desire to build a better life for his family risks losing them entirely.


It's supposedly on sometime this coming week but I can't see when!

Anyway, keep an eye out for it all you "middle classers" 'cos the last sailing one was a good 'un and this one looks like it might ring a few bells for some!

Richard
 
Check out Saturday. I watched one last night - a family take to a motorhome across Oz. Just like the earlier sailing one - the guys dream drives it regardless of what his family think or want looks like they are trying to establish a pattern here.
 
This is the intro for the series final "My Family's Crazy Gap Year" on Channel 4

Gary Fisher always thought there must be more to life than a car in the garage and a mortgage round his neck, and now he plans to find out.

Gary wants to see if it's possible for a welder from Warrington to take on the middle class dream and buy an ocean-going yacht and sail his wife and twin toddlers to America.

But the only way he can afford his dream is to do all the restoration work on the boat himself. Over two gruelling years he spends every penny, and every spare minute of his time attempting to get the boat on the water. But as the yacht nears completion his marriage falls apart.

This film charts the emotional journey of a man whose desire to build a better life for his family risks losing them entirely.


It's supposedly on sometime this coming week but I can't see when!

Anyway, keep an eye out for it all you "middle classers" 'cos the last sailing one was a good 'un and this one looks like it might ring a few bells for some!

Richard

Garry must not have had much spare time then, because we hardly saw him down on the boat, after he’d ripped out the interior, before it was taken down south, by road transport, to be worked on by professional companies. He is entered for this years ARC. I will watch with great interest!
 
It is episode 6 of the six part series, but there is no sign of when it is to be broadcast. I'd be interested as he was recently looking for crew for the arc and a friend pulled out when it became apparent it was just the two of them! (No family in sight!) He was supposed to be having cameras on board for the arc too.
 
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