Padded boiler suit for winter sailing _ £30

Thread drift i'm afraid.
Dylan , just watched your little clip on Youtube "sailing from Kip etc"

You are a total inspiration , driving a close to 1000m round trip to do some winter sailing and communing with your boat.

It shows just how you can if you have the determination achieve a lot in our boating world without significant resources.

I am a pale Dylan shadow , driving only a 400m round trip , sailing in the season and only in good weather at that.

Must harden up...................
 
jakeroyd said:
Thread drift i'm afraid.
Dylan , just watched your little clip on Youtube "sailing from Kip etc"

You are a total inspiration , driving a close to 1000m round trip to do some winter sailing and communing with your boat.

It shows just how you can if you have the determination achieve a lot in our boating world without significant resources.

I am a pale Dylan shadow , driving only a 400m round trip , sailing in the season and only in good weather at that.

Must harden up...................
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Thanks Jake,

It does appear that I am fairly cold tolerant and have the energy to keep this sort of stuff up indefinitely so I am very lucky.

I am going to have to sell Centaur 2 and temporarily abandon the assault on the outer Hebrides until the budget gets back into line ... if it ever does.

the last one hour film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFjNOsj8xc

got more hits and minutes viewed in the first month than anything I have ever done on sailing so it was a bit of a success - but the inexorable slide in paypal taps from youtubists continues. There are so many really well produced sailing films on the web where you can watch lovely girls in bikinis scrubbing hulls, dancing on beaches and generally lounging around while emoting at a camera while their doting boyfriends sit beside them.

Maybe one of them will decide to make some films about the outer Hebs and scottish islands.

I plan to use the money released from selling the Centaur to fill the budget deficit and I need an outboard for Katie L (to replace the nicked one)get the trailer into good shape, fix the centre plate bolt and do some re-wiring. Maybe next year I will get to make some films about the Irish Sea in her but the outer hebs and outside of Ireland will have to wait until I have the resources to acquire an old clunker with standing headroom, a reliable engine and the money for a mooring/marina berth.

But that is the good thing about Centaurs - easy to buy and easy to sell. They are really excellent little boats This last one has been brilliant - a perfect engine, easy to reef (but flat) mainsail, non leaking keels.

The trailer sailer needs money spending on it so releasing the £5,000 will allow me to keep on sailing -= although the high car driving sailing will be put on hold for an indeterminate period. The drive from suffolk to Skye would be about 14 hours and swallow around £100 worth of fuel each way so I need a plan B.

I did make a short film showing the drive north in the snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3A1oMAWfw

it got more positive and negative reactions (thumbs down) than any film I have ever made

D
 
dylanwinter said:
Thanks Jake,

It does appear that I am fairly cold tolerant and have the energy to keep this sort of stuff up indefinitely so I am very lucky.

I am going to have to sell Centaur 2 and temporarily abandon the assault on the outer Hebrides until the budget gets back into line ... if it ever does.

the last one hour film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFjNOsj8xc

got more hits and minutes viewed in the first month than anything I have ever done on sailing so it was a bit of a success - but the inexorable slide in paypal taps from youtubists continues. There are so many really well produced sailing films on the web where you can watch lovely girls in bikinis scrubbing hulls, dancing on beaches and generally lounging around while emoting at a camera while their doting boyfriends sit beside them.

Maybe one of them will decide to make some films about the outer Hebs and scottish islands.

I plan to use the money released from selling the Centaur to fill the budget deficit and I need an outboard for Katie L (to replace the nicked one)get the trailer into good shape, fix the centre plate bolt and do some re-wiring. Maybe next year I will get to make some films about the Irish Sea in her but the outer hebs and outside of Ireland will have to wait until I have the resources to acquire an old clunker with standing headroom, a reliable engine and the money for a mooring/marina berth.

But that is the good thing about Centaurs - easy to buy and easy to sell. They are really excellent little boats This last one has been brilliant - a perfect engine, easy to reef (but flat) mainsail, non leaking keels.

The trailer sailer needs money spending on it so releasing the £5,000 will allow me to keep on sailing -= although the high car driving sailing will be put on hold for an indeterminate period. The drive from suffolk to Skye would be about 14 hours and swallow around £100 worth of fuel each way so I need a plan B.

I did make a short film showing the drive north in the snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3A1oMAWfw

it got more positive and negative reactions (thumbs down) than any film I have ever made

D
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I can understand the 'driving ' film getting lots of positive and negative comments.
We have all got used to seeing your films free and the issues of Youtube earning and Paypal contributions have drifted into the past , well at least for me.
We , at least me , sort of assumed that since you were pursuing a lowest cost form of boating that this you could support financially and the contributions were icing on the cake.

Sailing is expensive , even the way you do it.
I for one look forward to your well produced films and have contributed to them but I must admit only modestly.
I plan to contribute soon.

The negatives on your film I guess , are becuse you suggested you could use some money and as a said earlier we have got used them coming free.

Would not want to see you in the gutter :-)

I'm wondering what the sailing equivalent of the gutter is...............
It might be a mud berth somewhere , with no heater fuel , a busted engine , no wife , a temptation to put red diesel in the car and a bill from the sailing club for your mooring...............etc. etc. :-)
 
dylanwinter said:
hard to beat the £30 for the overalls
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Oh, no it's not! Three or four years ago, I got a pair, identical to Dylan's, in Lidl (or Aldi). They cost a lot less than £30, probably less than £20.
Interestingly, the ones Dylan got are branded Portwest, who make an extensive range of outdoor gear in Westport, County Mayo, so not the usual Oriental sweatshop imports.
 
Dylan if you want you can slum it using my much smaller Pageant for nothing (mooring and insurance paid by me). I would rather see her used than sit on her mooring.
It is in North Wales.
 
dylanwinter said:
I bought one of these for winter sailing in scotland

bloomin excellent

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361009289...49&var=630345464536&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I have been out the past weekend - there may be snow on top but I was as warm as toast

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Just imagine falling into the drink and having all that padding soak up water. Good bye! And dont think it cant happen because it does. Happened to us in a New Years day race.

Much better not to be a cheapo and but a proper immersion suit. Mine cost me £100 from Cosalt and keeps me as warm as toast behind the wheel for winter racing. Its closed foam so it doesnt absorb, aids fltation, and it substitutes for oilies.

I am as cheap as the next man, possibly more so being from Yorkshire. And I have a padded boiler suit for winter jobs at home. But I wouldnt risk using it when sailing. Get the proper kit instead.
 
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