WANTED: BRITISH FAMILIES EMBARKING ON A SAILING ADVENTURE

[Family_Adventure]

ARE YOU TAKING SOME TIME OUT TO SAIL WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY?

PLANNING ON GIVING THE CHILDREN AN EXPERIENCE THAT CAN'T BE MATCHED BY ANYTHING THEY'D LEARN IN A CLASSROOM?

WANT AN ADVENTURE TO SHARE AND UNITE THE WHOLE FAMILY

An ambitious new Channel 4 documentary wants to hear from British or UK based families (comprising of at least one parent/guardian and at least one child aged 17 years or under) who are planning on taking some timeout from day to day life to do something different as a family unit.

We are really keen on finding a sailing family to be involved; so, if you plan on sailing the globe with your kids in tow or have designs on racing across the pacific or the atlantic with the whole family we would love to hear about it.

Whatever your family adventure, please share your plans:

Email: vivienne@twentytwenty.tv or call 07505 883 514

 

[sarabande]

always willing to undertake a quick RTW trip for modest sponsorship /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Grehan]

Sweetie I realise that you're PR/Media/TV /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif and can't help it, but the bold capitals are a BIT OVER THE TOP you know.

 

[Scillypete]

Get me another boat and I'll go again.

Catamaran 36ft plus would be nice thank you

 

[absit_omen]

Oh dear. Reality TV has found us. Is there no sanctuary.

They will probably need three families to conform to the well tried formula of three stories as the average TV watching Brit is unable to concentrate on any one story for more than a few minutes.

'Joe is all ready for his major adventure in spite of the fact that he has never set foot in a boat before. Meanwhile, back in Dartmouth Mary is just trying to squeeze into her wedding dress before she sets off to meet her internet fiancee in Honolulu. Harry is wondering how he is going to get around the world without any charts and no money.............Zzzzzzzzz'

 

[B175Chris]

I dont think we want this programme, can't you just do a Top Gear for Boats instead?

 

[Family_Adventure]

Okay I can see we face a fair few cynics on this website, I guess in todays current televisual climate this is to be expected.

Fyi then, this is an observational documentary and we plan to document one family per programme.

From my limited knowledge of sailing - Joe would be quite insane to sail his family across the globe if he had never been on a boat; Mary is simply the passenger on a yacht - and therefore clearly not what we are looking for and Harry well, if he has a yacht and a family but no cashflow or charts he is certainly a recipe for disaster and certainly a fool, again not something which is of interest to this series.

So as long as you are not Joe, Mary or Harry and do actually plan on a sailing adventure with your family in tow, we would love to hear from you.

 

[B175Chris]

This forum is full of cynicism, it makes it fun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I'm serious about the Boat Top Gear though, if you need a Richard Hammond-esque presenter I think you'd be lucky to have me /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Sultans_Kapitein]

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if you need a Richard Hammond-esque presenter I think you'd be lucky to have me /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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From what I gather Chris, you would make two of the 'Hamster'
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Mal

 

[Tranona]

One running in the Telegraph Travel at the moment.

 

[SirSnoozalot]

Hi Vivienne, if you nip down to Berthon at Lymington for me, and hand over to them £235,000 advance for the boat, I will sail when you are ready. I have an added angle in that I am a male single parent, who is cynical about nothing (Seriously!), greatly flatulent, and who will glady have additional children with you (or someone) else en-route and you can film the birth. We can also stage arguments with my ex over the sat-phone, get robbed by pirates, and proclaim daily how the working class are so poorly treated, and call each other comrade (to fit in with C4 being a bit lefty). I can make the kids eat burgers all the time, fall in love with a tree, belch and put on a northern accent. I love stereotypes. I often quote Marx (Groucho), and can be all things you want. (You will have to script any sensible things you might want said). I will need to adopt an asian or african child to meet the criteria, but can find friends who are gay, lesbian and handicapped (other than myself).

If you are on a low budget, forget Berthon's, and buy Grehan for me instead.

Bu**er! One programme per family means you are on low budget. Not going to be prime time (unless you do recruit me). HMMMMM. Problematic.

 

[sr04]

I think that you will find a high percentage of Joes and Harrys setting off on round the world cruises, I would guess the Harrys would make more entertaining TV as well. The problem for you though is that they take anywhere from 2 years upwards to travel round the world on a yacht so that they have time to visit some of the strange and exotic places on the planet.

 

[Saguday]

Pity you weren't around when our family of 4 did exactly this in 2006

I do have 11,500 photo's I could share with you though... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[JoeQ]

Are all Joe's excluded?

 

[SirSnoozalot]

Awwwwwwwwwww. Thats not fair on Joe.

 

[Heckler]

And I agree with all the other cynics on the forum, we who frequent it are not your average disfunctional, fat, hair pulled back, fag smoking person looking for their moment of fame! Why do you need an under 17 year old? is that to make "good" tv? some disfunctional teenager to mouth off about how crap life is cause the old [--word removed--] have dragged them away from from their social networking sites? dream on sweetie

 

[SirSnoozalot]

I hope I don't appear arrogant, but I imagine a documentary on any of us, would be more BBC2 than Channel 4.

20/20 TV. Indeed. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

PS. My apologies to Grehan. When I read it later I regreted making the remark. But, too late to Edit. I have been looking at a 115 because I don't think I can really afford or want to do the upkeep on the 52 footer, and the 115 is the only other type of boat I have really wanted. But, the meaning in the post could be read the wrong way, for which I offer my humblest apologies.

 

[JoeQ]

I'd have thought Discovery Channel!

 

[SirSnoozalot]

Indeed Joe.

They'd need a superlative in the title though:
"Deadliest Yachties"
"The World's Biggest, Bestest, Liveaboards"
"MegaYotties"
or something of that nature...

 

[Grehan]

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PS. My apologies to Grehan.

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What? Lummee, Sir Snooze, I had actually taken it as a compliment and was going to reply in that vein, then couldn't be @rsed . . . !! So no need to apologise - the reverse. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Anyway, the chap who looked at her yesterday (we're in Montpellier, he flew out from the UK to do so) said she was in even better nick than he had expected. So that was also nice. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif