KTL 56 is up - 10 min film about the Ore Spit - its free

I have already thought of that

TamarMike said:
Then perhaps the slug could be chartered to Google to produce a "Google River-view" :D:D
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as you can tell I have thought of every possible angle to finance this stupid project.

One Aussi asked me for some flyers to put up in the bogs at the boat yard

where men stand and contemplate nothing at all

got three subscribers from that one boat yard

so if anyone wants to put a flyer up in their clubhouse

as you guys say -- once I get further north the petrol will start to get really expensive

I would love to be able to use the rail netork - but the cost of a ticket from MK to Aberdeen is a stupid amount of money.

No idea how things will shape up as I work my way up the coast

I might drop dead of old age before I get there - or my back pack up because of the slugs small cabin - who knows - who cares

all I can say is that I have never enjoyed my sailing as much as I am now

-the boat is going back on the water on friday for the winters entertainment

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I've just tested the Sign-Up procedure and it worked fine.

erm.......when do I get the money back?


No, just kidding, I've previously sneaked a look on YouTube, but as you say it's not a patch on the real thing.
My problem is I do have a small boat and a trailer, so my excuses are even thinner than others'.
 
I wonder if you could get sponsorship from the appropriate rail network - a little sticker on the slug, or your jacket, in exchange for a free rail pass. You are promoting destinations they travel to, and it would effectively cost them nothing.

I still haven't signed up because of long standing paypal issues. Can I subscribe by standing order?
 
sponsorship and paypal

sighmoon said:
I wonder if you could get sponsorship from the appropriate rail network - a little sticker on the slug, or your jacket, in exchange for a free rail pass. You are promoting destinations they travel to, and it would effectively cost them nothing.

I still haven't signed up because of long standing paypal issues. Can I subscribe by standing order?
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Well its great that a scrap with paypal is the only thing that stands between you and six hours of visual winter entertainment that does not involve simon or bruce. Thats half way to getting one more sponsor for this stupid project.

Paypal has been great for this household. I have teenagers who range the web like feral cats - the paypal account means that they do not go spreading credit card details all over the world. I know what they have been spending and where.

My credit card details are just in the hands of one company that is psychotically focussed on maintaining its reputation for security.

and sailing stuff, books and electronics are much cheaper on the web than they are from a chandler - which really helps to keep my sailing costs down - although I do feel really sorry for the local chandlers.

There was a thread on here about the promotional value of ktl - and there are loads of experts on sucttlebutt. There was general agreement that with about 500 subscribers a logo on the front of the genoa - a bit of the boat that is in shot lots of the time - would be worth about £30. So not even worth doing if you were the maker of sails or roller reefing gear - both of which I deperately need.


The only way that this is going to become viable is not through sponsorship but through subscriptions - which are doing pretty well from the states, now that their winter is coming. Us Brits are a bit behind the loop when it comes to bandwidth and e-commerce and there is lots of great stuff on the web for free. There are whole films on youtube of boats capsizing and broaching and dinghy sialors on trapezes shouting whoo hoo! What more could a small yacht sailor want.

My films are about an ugly man sailing an ugly old boat up some pretty scabby rivers while showing some lovely shots of the scenery and yakking about history, wildlife and bloody mobos.

No obvious safety gear worn all the time, no glamour, no brilliant well known comedians, nothing to offer a sponsor.

The only sponsors so far are (I generalise of course) like minded men with computers and paypal accounts who sail modest boats and have an interest in coastal sailing. That is a rediculously narrow demographic.

The paypal thing is simple and clean at this end - no paperwork for me - all electronic. The money comes into my paypal account and I use it to buy antifoul, replacement hatches and screws.

However, if you want to see the films but are determined to avoid paypal that is no problem.

If you don't have a paypal account you might know some-one who has one. Lots of people have subscribed that way - once the money has come in the login details are sent to that paypal email address and those details can be used by anyone anyplace anytime. Its just an id and a password - the way we log in here. You can change those to suit yourself and login from any computer anywhere.


or you could give them the £3 and they could use their paypal to send £3 to my email and I could join you up for three months by manually joining you up

or

in return for the promise of the future arrival of £5 in an envelope I could log you in

or


in return for a promise to put £5 into an RNLI box I could log you in.

or

there are a few subscribers on this forum - some posting to this thread - you could PM them and ask to "borrow" their login details and I would never know. Even better they could PM you and offer to loan you their login details.

all I would lose would be a few pence worth of bandwidth charges (maybe the price a few square inches of antifoul or varnish). It would not exactly help the project but in the long term if you liked the films a lot you could eventually do the £5 in an envelope jobby.

That aside the cash flow from paypal is almost irrelevant to the journey. I earn my living as a commercial cameraman making films about trucks, tractors and industrial processes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYfjZUPORs

If the number of sisbcribers does not grow then I will spend more time making truck films to pay for the sailing and less time making sailing films and sailing around the UK. The journey will take even longer and there is nothing wrong with that. Its just that the gaps between the films will get a bit bigger and some of the ktl followers will die before I finish.

Blimey that was a long answer

what a rambling fool am I

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I'm having severe bandwidth problems these days, BT keep on letting my connection grind to a halt and then I have to pester them again to get it working properly. Have been trying to watch the latest KTL and have spent a day buffering the first five minutes! Feels like I'm back on dial-up speeds.
So a subscription will follow once I actually have workable internet again... not your fault Dylan, I know...
 
bandwidth

I am amazed that contscting them makes any difference

My local bandwidth goes through the floor afte 4.00 when all the nkids in the village go online but by 10 it is going fine

hence the overnight uploads and downloads

The website alllows you to click on several films and let it download six at a time

most ISPs ration bandwidth on big files - so downloading six files at once often takesw no longer than downloading one

try it

It os one of the snags with this form of distribution - but bandwidth is rising fast everywhere

but demand is rising too

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