KTL at the boat show

[Lakesailor]

Nah. Just go and be rude.

Unless you are going to interview celebrities or compete in a X-Sailor competition there is no market for freelance contributions in today's media.

[/cynical mode]

 

[dylanwinter]

working at shows

Nah. Just go and be rude.

Unless you are going to interview celebrities or compete in a X-Sailor competition there is no market for freelance contributions in today's media.

[/cynical mode]

while I was a student I did some shifts at the boat show on a chandlery stall

really hard work -

and while a hack at IPC I did many years at agricultural shows

not planning on making people's lives any harder than they already are

being in the maritime retail business must be really tough at the moment as expenditure on sailing is discretionary

as for making a living as a freelance....

as long as you stay flexible and can do snaps, vid, written and radio then survival is possible

....so far

Dylan

 

[capnsensible]

You will be welcomed on stand B404 for some Strait answers!!

 

[gerry99]

Dylan have you made up your mind as to the date(s) you are going to LIBS? If it coincides with my trip I will buy you a beer or two

 

[SHUG]

I have to say that I have not been to a boat show for at least two decades Dylan

IT'S MOVED!!!

 

[dylanwinter]

very kind of you

Dylan have you made up your mind as to the date(s) you are going to LIBS? If it coincides with my trip I will buy you a beer or two

dunno which days yet

depends on the other stuff

D

 

[Searush]

IT'S MOVED!!!

Yes & and the extra space has been wasted. Last year it was like the main street in High Noon at 11.59am.

I think they charge too much & there is limited payback for most former exhibitors (the few that remain in business that is). TBH the show marketing people need to offer free space to interesting small boat related businesses & start-ups just to keep the punters rolling in.

 

[rotrax]

"a 13 course Anton Mossiman dinner!"

What in the name of all the gods comprises a 13 course dinner?

Six tiny but delightfull starters in what can only be described as a hat box, follwed by the main course and then six wonderful bite sized deserts, again in the hat box.As Mossiman was catering for well over two hundred discerning diners-plus my wife and I-the hat box idea was novel. When the lid was removed the inside had an inner liner flush with the top. This had six recesses to take the tiny dishes for the bite sized starters and deserts. The table staff took away the hat boxes after the starters were finished, which were replaced by the deserts. These were then served after the main course debris was cleared. An interesting dining experience for sure. I was exibiting a replica of a famous Brooklands racing motorcycle, the Ben Bickle supercharged Ariel square four. I was using crutches to walk at the time and asked the late Barry Sheene to ride it in my place in the parade around the Club grounds. He said "not bloody likely"! My wife got Simon LeBon to help bump start it and I managed to wobble round the course. Simons wife and her supermodel mates awarded the bike a Jerboam of champagne-the "Sheer Pleasure Award"-as it was the nicest sounding and had lots of chrome and polished alloy. It was a great day out and it was a privilege to be invited. I tried on several occaisions to get another invite but no luck. The event was moved to New York some years later and is now out of reach. Shame-I quite enjoyed a touch of the high life.

 

[Poignard]

the Ben Bickle supercharged Ariel square four.

Got any photos?

 

[rotrax]

Got any photos?

No, but the bikes owner had some lovely line drawings commisioned and gave me one . I will try and dig it out and see if it will scan. Better in my view, although nowhere near so pretty was the Dr. Joe Bayley Brooklands Douglas that Len Cole used to tune and prepare for the Doctor. I did 120 mph on it at the end of the (bumpy) half mile at Brighton seafront many years ago- not bad for a 1926 motorbike eh! I won the Ecce Homo hillclimb in the old communist Czechoslovakia in 1986 and came second at the Autodrom in Most the week before. Might have won that too but for an unfortunate clash with a crazy German on a Sunbeam model 90TT who fell off in front of me and wiped off the left side footrest! I had to cover nine laps with my foot on the hot exaust pipes-a bit like Anthony Hopkins in " The Worlds Fastest Indian". Not pleasant.

 

[jhr]

It still frightens/depresses me when I see a 20 footer and look at the price tag and realise that it is so far out of my price bracket that I would have to sell my wife and children into slavery just for the downpayment

So what are you waiting for?

 

[Slipperman]

Dylan, think it would be great if you could corner someone from the RYA and ask them, in the light of recent threads on this forum, for an updated statement on red diesel, what their current strategy is and what boat owners should do if any EU authorities impose a fine.

 

[prv]

Dylan, think it would be great if you could corner someone from the RYA and ask them, in the light of recent threads on this forum, for an updated statement on red diesel, what their current strategy is and what boat owners should do if any EU authorities impose a fine.

Seems a bit serious for our Dylan.

He's more a "feeding chips to humorous seagulls" kind of guy

Pete

 

[Poignard]

No, but the bikes owner had some lovely line drawings commisioned and gave me one . I will try and dig it out and see if it will scan. Better in my view, although nowhere near so pretty was the Dr. Joe Bayley Brooklands Douglas that Len Cole used to tune and prepare for the Doctor. I did 120 mph on it at the end of the (bumpy) half mile at Brighton seafront many years ago- not bad for a 1926 motorbike eh! I won the Ecce Homo hillclimb in the old communist Czechoslovakia in 1986 and came second at the Autodrom in Most the week before. Might have won that too but for an unfortunate clash with a crazy German on a Sunbeam model 90TT who fell off in front of me and wiped off the left side footrest! I had to cover nine laps with my foot on the hot exaust pipes-a bit like Anthony Hopkins in " The Worlds Fastest Indian". Not pleasant.

http://www.classicmotorcycle.co.uk/news/the-bayley-cole-douglas

 

[dylanwinter]

that is true

Seems a bit serious for our Dylan.

He's more a "feeding chips to humorous seagulls" kind of guy

Pete

I spent many years doing the serious stuff

however, it would be interesting to ask the RYA why they think I should join.

I am a lapsed member and a keen sailor so I should be fertile ground for being re-recruited

 

[Searush]

Make sure you pick an RYA Official then rather than any volunteer Yottie that's actually manning the stall for a free ticket.