KTL to be aired on American TV

Dylan,

Just look at the upsides.... the National Science Museum turned down Gyspy Moth as her mast was too tall to go under the roof....

So, once KTL has turned you into Sir Dylan Winter with your vast residence on the hills of Los Angeles, then you'll be able to further capitalise by selling 'em the slug for a main exhibition piece....

Perfect.
 
Always two keels or none - never one

Wunja said:
Wait until you get far enough North for the water to be more runny, then get a boat with a proper keel (or two).
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I know that one very deep keel is considered to be the bees knees when it comes to seaworthiness

but I do love the ability to take the ground.

I think East Anglia and the North Sea must look a lot tougher if you can't get up the creeks and rivers to hide from the rough stuff. Not being burdened with a dinghy has been great.

As for value....there is a slug for sale in Wells - asking price £3,000 - so I am confident that I have already increased their value. The slug must be a bit of a collectors item by now. I expect I shall go over to Wells one day and find it not there.

- mind you - it would be a hard thing to nick.

In order to disguise it you would have to change its name and sails, repaint it. By then you would have spent more money on it than it was ever worth.

Its only insured third party


Dylan
 
I'm sure the slug will be sea worthy enough for the north of England / Scotland part of the journey, didn't Henry Piggot sail one across the Atlantic. Though he mightn't have had to beat of a lee shore to often lol!
The logistics and limited living area will be an interesting challenge though.

Well done on the American airing.
 
seaworthy slugs

finbarr said:
I'm sure the slug will be sea worthy enough for the north of England / Scotland part of the journey, didn't Henry Piggot sail one across the Atlantic. Though he mightn't have had to beat of a lee shore to often lol!
The logistics and limited living area will be an interesting challenge though.

Well done on the American airing.
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You could sail a matchstick around the UK if you can wait for the right weather and the right tidal stream.

Slugs are pretty good - actually they are excellent - but you can't argue with the difference between 26 foot and the smaller yacht when it comes to facing the weather.

Even if the boat can cope the smaller boat is much harder on the crew.

I have been reading Snooks excellent blog and how tough it was in his 32 footer getting to the Orkneys

Sticking with the slug will mean that I will have to spend more time hiding out the bad weather.

apart from the psychology of the confined space in the rain - and believe me over the past three years I have done my fair share of sitting down below waiting for the weather to change - the costs of travel to and from the boat are going to start to really cut in.

I know that I will be sitting on the boat attempting to balance the chances of the weather coming right against the costs of getting home again to do some paid work.

the relative slowness of the slug under both sail and engine will also have financial consequences.

The project continues to be a loss maker - nothing wrong with that as sailing is an indulgence - but every day I spend on the boat, as opposed to at home working as a freelance, also starts to have an impact.

Compared to the sailing or editing the hardest part of the challenge so far has been the finances and managing the website.

As I have said before on this forum.... sailing is easy. So is filming and editing.

So far I have done the easy bit of a hard thing.

Now I have the harder bits of a hard thing to do - and with fewer resources than I had when I started.

From a financial point of the view the American TV prog is irrelevant. My main hope is that it will help to shift a few DVds - but its ability to do that will be limited

it is, after all, just one half hour at 1 pm on a Sunday on a few PBS stations that will not reach the airwaves until next autumn.

Financially it is a drop in the ocean

So its progress Jim.... but not as we know it.

Dylan
 
Good stuff, Dylan, you must be chuffed to bits (well, you are, I can tell).
Just make sure there's a copy of that pilot book somewhere obvious....;)
Dick.
 
Delighted for you Dylan.

After your shafting by 'The Big G' I was hoping that things would turn out ok for you.

Fingers crossed.
 
did write for them at one time

Little Rascal said:
What about writing? Surely PBO would have you for a column or something...
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I do write a column for "Small Craft Advisor"

http://smallcraftadvisor.com/

that brings in $100 every two months

which should allow me to buy a Centaur in 30 years time

I will write a book at the end of the journey

As for the Uk magazines....

when I was sailing an Eboat around Scotland I wrote a couple of items for them - and another about boat shows - that was 20 years ago and there was plenty of expensive gear on show

also not sure that my gaffer tape and WD40 approach to sailing really fits in with their style which tends to be a rather more "by the book" style.

I think you also have to think how such KTL editorial will "support the advertising"

the appalling answer is......

not at all

Dylan
 
Impractical Boat Owner

Well I think they are missing a trick - you certainly get support here. Perhaps that's because this is where people who can't be bothered to pay for the mag hang out :D

I stopped buying PBO because of it's lack of content... I think they need more 'inspirational' stuff... Your films are getting me through the sanding anyway!
 
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I still buy it

Little Rascal said:
Well I think they are missing a trick - you certainly get support here. Perhaps that's because this is where people who can't be bothered to pay for the mag hang out :D

I stopped buying PBO because of it's lack of content... I think they need more 'inspirational' stuff... Your films are getting me through the sanding anyway!
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I still have a subscription - I think as a magazine it is pretty grounded and I learn things I would have to dig pretty hard for on the web

As a journalist.... I also like to support good journalism where I see it

although what proportion of my subscription goes to pay the journalist I have no idea

Dylan
 
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dylanwinter said:
they will only be using what I have already filmed so its mostly boats, water, birds, trees, light, boats and history, the odd ironic comment and poor cuisine.
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What a bugger.
You could have had a rant about Google.

Still it's a good direction in which to move.

Now how about plugging the shows on your next releases so that KTL watchers in the US watch the TV shows.
They could contact networks not showing it and ask why not. Get a viral campaign going.

I'm just reading Keith Richards' autobiography (terrific) and he reckons the Stones had no ambition to be big, and then suddenly it happened despite them.
Just keep that thought.
 
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dylanwinter said:
I still have a subscription - I think as a magazine it is pretty grounded and I learn things I would have to dig pretty hard for on the web

As a journalist.... I also like to support good journalism where I see it

although what proportion of my subscription goes to pay the journalist I have no idea

Dylan
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I agree - I had a sub to CB for 10 years plus another smaller independant boatbuilding magazine.

Then I realised that for what I'd spent on mags I could have gone out and bought a boat. So I cancelled my sub and went out and bought a boat. I do miss it though...
 
Good plan lakey

Lakesailor said:
What a bugger.
You could have had a rant about Google.

Still it's a good direction in which to move.

Now how about plugging the shows on your next releases so that KTL watchers in the US watch the TV shows.
They could contact networks not showing it and ask why not. Get a viral campaign going.

I'm just reading Keith Richards' autobiography (terrific) and he reckons the Stones had no ambition to be big, and then suddenly it happened despite them.
Just keep that thought.
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Good plan lakey
 
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