dylanwinter
Well-Known Member
I sometimes think I have one of the best inboxes in sailing
when people subscribe or buy a vid I often ask them what and where they saiil
the answers can be great
this morning I got this email from the USA
when people subsribe I usually ask them what they sail and where.
I have picked up some amazing places that I would like to sail around – astonishing antipodean estuaries, damned lakes in the states, pacific coastal backwaters.
I got his email from Tom
My dear Dylan,
Hope all is well with you.
Just caught back up with you and watched the vids of the Duck Punt canal sailing. Very nice moments there. Thanks for that – as it reminded me clearly that it’s about being out there doing it – no matter the boat, the location, the season, or anything else. The love of the water and sailing needs to be nurtured – by doing.
your query about my sailing.
I’m pretty much 100% single handed for the past 35 years – that’s a part of why I so much enjoy what you are doing and the way it comes through just how much you are enjoying everything as you go along.
Sailing venues these days (now retired and 70 years old but reasonably fit and trim) include the Northeast coast (Massachusetts, Long Island Sound, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, Maine), the extreme Southeast (the Florida Keys), and new last season the middle Chesapeake Bay (mid-east-coast – Maryland).
In the past five years I have downsized from 30-plus foot offshore trimarans to a trailerable trimaran (a Dick Newick designed 23′ Tremolino) in New England and a monohull (an S2 6.9 22′ daggerboarder) now on the Chesapeake. Don’t get the wrong idea – two boats but very low budget
Am working on my personal ‘bucket list’ of solo voyages: a few months in the Bahamas, a Bahamas-Bermuda-Salem trip, a transatlantic W-E, the Jester Club’s Azores Challenge, a year or more cruising the coasts and canals of Ireland – as I am an Irish national now , then maybe top it of with a Jester Challenge solo-transat back home. Will need a bit more boat for those Atlantic trips – probably sell of the two small boats (partly in the works, fingers crossed) and pick up a trimaran in the 28′ to 32′ foot range.
But I do so just love being on the water – the sailing and exploring the coast – so that’s the priority now and that’s what your ‘canal sailing’ video was a reminder of.
All that best,
Tom
the pix of his boat are here
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/category/blogs/
so that gives me another 14 years at least
that makes me happy
why he is watching my films about canal sailing in the winter I have no idea
Dylan
when people subscribe or buy a vid I often ask them what and where they saiil
the answers can be great
this morning I got this email from the USA
when people subsribe I usually ask them what they sail and where.
I have picked up some amazing places that I would like to sail around – astonishing antipodean estuaries, damned lakes in the states, pacific coastal backwaters.
I got his email from Tom
My dear Dylan,
Hope all is well with you.
Just caught back up with you and watched the vids of the Duck Punt canal sailing. Very nice moments there. Thanks for that – as it reminded me clearly that it’s about being out there doing it – no matter the boat, the location, the season, or anything else. The love of the water and sailing needs to be nurtured – by doing.
your query about my sailing.
I’m pretty much 100% single handed for the past 35 years – that’s a part of why I so much enjoy what you are doing and the way it comes through just how much you are enjoying everything as you go along.
Sailing venues these days (now retired and 70 years old but reasonably fit and trim) include the Northeast coast (Massachusetts, Long Island Sound, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, Maine), the extreme Southeast (the Florida Keys), and new last season the middle Chesapeake Bay (mid-east-coast – Maryland).
In the past five years I have downsized from 30-plus foot offshore trimarans to a trailerable trimaran (a Dick Newick designed 23′ Tremolino) in New England and a monohull (an S2 6.9 22′ daggerboarder) now on the Chesapeake. Don’t get the wrong idea – two boats but very low budget
Am working on my personal ‘bucket list’ of solo voyages: a few months in the Bahamas, a Bahamas-Bermuda-Salem trip, a transatlantic W-E, the Jester Club’s Azores Challenge, a year or more cruising the coasts and canals of Ireland – as I am an Irish national now
, then maybe top it of with a Jester Challenge solo-transat back home. Will need a bit more boat for those Atlantic trips – probably sell of the two small boats (partly in the works, fingers crossed) and pick up a trimaran in the 28′ to 32′ foot range.But I do so just love being on the water – the sailing and exploring the coast – so that’s the priority now and that’s what your ‘canal sailing’ video was a reminder of.
All that best,
Tom
the pix of his boat are here
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/category/blogs/
so that gives me another 14 years at least
that makes me happy
why he is watching my films about canal sailing in the winter I have no idea
Dylan
