KTL to be aired on American TV

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I know you guys have been concerned about my personal safety and sanity while sailing around the UK. Well now you have a whole new set of things to worry about - your reputations as British sailors.

It now seems that KTL will be broadcast on TV stations across America.

Last year a TV series called Sailing Channel Theatre

http://watch.wliw.org/program/1286394481/

was broadcast on Miami PBS - it went down so well that it has now been recommissioned as Adventures in Sailing

http://www.adventuresinsailing.net/

An amazing bloke called Tory Salvia from

http://www.thesailingchannel.tv/

is going to chop KTL up into a million peices and re-assemble it for the American market.

I have no idea what it will look or sound like after he has finished with it - and if I end up bringing british Yachtsmen into disrepute then I apologise in advance.

Anyway this is what Tory says:

From Great Britain, TheSailingChannel has signed Dylan Winter, a
professional videographer and sailor with a grand sailing story titled “Keep
Turning Left”—a single handed, very slow voyage around the UK, the goal, to
sail up every navigable river worth visiting along Britain’s ridiculously crinkly
20,000 mile coastline. So far, after 30 months of intermittent sailing, Dylan has
sailed from the Isle of Wight to Wells in North Norfolk aboard his twin keel, 50-
year-old 18 foot Mirror Offshore, one of the toughest and undoubtedly ugliest
small production yachts ever produced. Combined
with Dylan’s stunning HD footage, British wit, and wonderful commentary,
the ugly duckling vessel is part of the charm of this British sailing epic.
You’ll never see Britain this way from the land. Only from a slow moving,
old sailboat can you marvel at the lush countryside, small ports and towns,
historic vessels, and colorful characters that make up a fascinating tidal
world frozen in time.

I assume one half hour episode on PBS in Miami is not going to be enough to buy that new macgregor I have my eyes on.....but every little helps

and the DVDs are going nicely as well

Anyway YBW - you have been very kind to me and my little project and I assume that this time next year the word Twassock will have spread across the Atlantic

Dylan

 
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Very happy for you Dylan. You deserve it.

Incidentally what is the most northerly planned part of your trip? Are you sticking to the mainland or will your trip include the islands?

John

PS I hope you are aiming at the MacGregor 65...
 
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What a lovely anti-dote to Red-necks, the Dukes of Hazard et al.

Well Done, mate, may thiis be the start of a slow rise to fame - if not yet fortune. Don't let it go to your head, KTL wouldn't be the same at 35kts from a flybridge cruiser. :D

Maybe the 2012 BAFTA's? :cool:
 
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Sybarite said:
Very happy for you Dylan. You deserve it.

Incidentally what is the most northerly planned part of your trip? Are you sticking to the mainland or will your trip include the islands?

John

PS I hope you are aiming at the MacGregor 65...
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the answer is I dunno - two factors involved.... fear and money

and the greatest of those is the money.

I really, really want to get to the Orkneys - I have done some work up there when I was a BBC staffer and they are the most stunning place to sail. But the costs of getting up there and back to sail while attempting to pin down paid work in the south

Very hard to beleive that KTL will ever be able to cover the costs of the travel.

The slug would also need some professional work down on it - proper scuppers, new roller reefing, proper electrics, epirb, chart plotter, extra tin cans, tea lights, meths


I might also get frightened before I get that far north - although I am starting to trust the slug the more I sail it.

However, I am 55 now and have nothing to prove to anyone and would feel no shame about ducking through the canal. Ideally I would like to spend a winter exploring the canal so that I am well positioned to get to the Orkneys and then around.

of course I might die before then due to my risky behaviour with concealed life jackets and high speed scizzor transport.
 
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How absolutely brilliant. I am delighted - both for you and for the Americans. Does this mean we will see Dylan on the slug in the middle of the Miami Poker Run giving a running commentary? The King's Speech would have no chance against it at the BAFTA's.

When you look at it, just chuck a couple of Thames Barges and the odd Kittiwake in and it's really just the same thing as KTL :D



p.s. what's the file format on your DVD's? My PC can't cope with the HD downloads - it's very stuttery. If I can play the DVD on the stand-alone DVD player hooked up to the telly that would be brilliant.
 
Excellent!

It'll be interesting to see how they re-cut it. American documentaries are often laughably over dramatised. "If Dylan can't finish cooking his beans before the jetskis wash hits, the can will explode, taking the boat, Dylan, and his circumnavigation dream straight to the bottom of the icy Atlantic."
 
KTL typifies UK sailing

"You do realise you may create a stereotypical image of a British sailor"


I think that the slug is entirely typical of the classic planet girdling ocean greyhound all britsih sailors own.

My careful attention to detail regarding flag etiquette will also help them to raise thier social standards.

I think as far as being well dressed then certainly they can benefit from learning that all British mariners wear Screwfix high vis builders coats when afloat and ashore.

I have allready been approached by dubarrys offering me a contract to wear their boots and their boots alone from here on in.

My immaculate coiffure, which has been carefully styled to balance my hugely impressive jowly neckline, will certainly set many an American lady-mariner's heart aflutter.

Then of course ther are the immense spin-offs for our repuation for maintaining the highest gastronomic standards both on and off the water

- fray bentos when afloat - battered sausage when ashore.

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"It'll be interesting to see how they re-cut it. American documentaries are often laughably over dramatised. "If Dylan can't finish cooking his beans before the jetskis wash hits, the can will explode, taking the boat, Dylan, and his circumnavigation dream straight to the bottom of the icy Atlantic."



I agree, I can't wait - although for me the excitement of wondering if the beast will start this time is tension enough

- but you are dead right - I probably do need to raise my game in the tension stakes. "Oh no, the slug is aground. Will the Essex mud release the triple keels from their dangerous grip when the tide comes in... The crew of the slug put the kettle on. Will the kettle boil before the tide comes in.



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"p.s. what's the file format on your DVD's? My PC can't cope with the HD downloads - it's very stuttery. If I can play the DVD on the stand-alone DVD player hooked up to the telly that would be brilliant.


downloads - just leave them running overnight from the download page - if they stutter in the player then just pause it and let it catch up and buffer - you can open several pages at once and let them get on with it while you talk to your wife or walk the dog. If the downloaded files are not playing then can I suggest you download a video player called videolan - even blokes with old computers say that it has revolutionised their video watching - its free.

as for the DVDs - send me an email or PM with your address and I will stick a set in the post - no need to pay until you are entirely happy with them - I put an SAE in the four disk set that has all of 2009 sailing on it - over six hour exploring the rivers between the Blackwater and the Alde. You only pay the £30 quid if you are deliriously happy with the films. Its the way we used to do business - merchandise first - then pay. SDomehow we have started doing it the other way around on the web.


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seriously though they should eventually get to see some of the brilliant boats we have around our coasts



and one glimpse of Britains east coast mud and our wonderful hot summers will have them flocking to the UK


 
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How about going Global... me lad

Why not franchise KTL to maybe..
KTL in ozz, or KTL in New Zealand..or even KTL channel isles... to mention but a few,

My idea ... so I want to be Handsomely rewarded please..
From
dabs. Inc.. good ideas R us...
 
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