What’s happened to Dylan?

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What’s happened to our Dylan?
Many of his videos have been removed. :eek:
I cant find his website. :(
And it doesn’t take a professional to see that he was feeling (I’m being VERY reserved and polite here) a little glum on his last few uploads/posts. :eek: :(
 
Thank Heavens!

Thank heavens...I found it / it's back online, well.... in a state of flux / transfer. :)

We just can’t let our Dylan disappear off the face of the Net….now can we.
 
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Feeling chipper

Feeling marvelous - now got 500 subscribers - which is brilliant - although only 30 per cent of them from the UK - 70 per cent are Americans, Anzacs and Canadians - plus a few Dutch, three Frenchmen, an Italian and a man from Japan.

Certainly if it had been left to the Brits then the whole filming thing idea would be dead in the water - I would still be sailing around the UK but there would be no films being made

but now that Simon Cowell and Bruce Forsythe have annexed the TV schedules I am hopeful that they will be my best recruiters

I mean really - who wants to watch that Widdicombe woman dance - well maybe just the once.

The decisioln to stop putting the latest film on the front page for free has also spurred some people into forking out - so the numbers are growing slowly.

I was also amazed atr how many people were prepared to watch the films for free in windows the size of postage stamps - thousands of them.

My suggestion that the subscribers pay some attention to the advertisers has had the most wonderful impact on revenue - now up to about £10 a day from click throughs. One bloke emailed me to tell me that he had managed to save £50 off his boat insurance - when he was really only clicking to show his support

The new subscribers and the extra clicks now covers the costs of servers, music and google earth pro and leaves enough over to buy a pot of anti-foul.

good eh!

all I need is a a few more payers and the films will start contributing towards the costs of running the slug trip as opposed to competing with it. Then I can stop making films about trucks and spend more time sailign and making films about sailing.


I decided to clear loads of the films from the youtube space - as people were contacting me and asking why should they pay to watch the films in HD from the website when they can watch them on youtube-o-blur for free

so I killed them all and am uploading the whole orf 2008 - 21 films - onto youtube - then people can watch those and decide if they are interested in finding out what happened next....

Martin the bolger sailor from the Deben who made the first website now has a proper job in London now so this bloke

http://messingaboutinboats.wordpress.com/

Joe Moore - a 23 year old pixel basher from St Albans has made a new website

almost ready to go live when last night some-one at the hosting company (fasthosts) realised that they were running out of space on the server my files were on and in a bit of a panic decided to cream all the films to make space for more important clients.

So that puts me in my place.

So the new site with a better "user journey" (Joes words not mine) will be going up today along with the first film about the Rivers Ore, Alde and Butley.

The other thing is that the site will now carry adverts from Amazon for sailing books - if anyone buys a book from there then 10 per cent of the money goes towards my rediculously long term project to explore and film every navigable estuary on the UK mainland.

through the coming winter winter there are films about Southwold and the river Blythe, the Broads and North Norfolk and the Wash to come - so loads more armchair sailing - I reckon about two hours worth - there are some lovely boats on the lde and Ore, the river Blythe under the bridge is an amazing place - and then there are the North and South Broads - extremly weird in places - wonderful in others.

So far this year the slug has cost me about £800 worth of bits and bobs plus I lost about two months sailing time rolling around in the gravel to get it all working again.

I could easily spend another £1500 on such things as new roller reefing and wiring but the slug and the beast are now ready for a winter afloat exploring the north norfolk coast and the wash.

Its going to be a brilliant winter - last winter was a cracker - this one will be even better.

Massive apologies to the lovely people who stumped up the outrageous £3 for three months access to 6 hours of sailing films on the website.

Amazingly only ten people took up my offer of a free access code in return for a promise to put £5 into the next RNLI box they saw - but the offer is still open.

For the none payers you will soon be able to watch all of 2008 for free on youtube - but they will look a lot better as downloaded films from the website

- but you can take a horse to water.....etc

Dylan

thanks for missing me guys - I am really touched


 
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dylanwinter said:
I mean really - who wants to watch that Widdicombe woman dance - well maybe just the once.
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There's a kind of horrible fascination about the idea, I find. You think you really should see it but there's an accompanying fear that the image will never leave you.

Pamela Stevenson on the other hand could make an old man very happy....
 
dylanwinter said:
Joe Moore - a 23 year old pixel basher from St Albans has made a new website

almost ready to go live when last night some-one at the hosting company (fasthosts) realised that they were running out of space on the server my files were on and in a bit of a panic decided to cream all the films to make space for more important clients.

So that puts me in my place.

So the new site with a better "user journey" (Joes words not mine) will be going up today along with the first film about the Rivers Ore, Alde and Butley.
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I would no longer give "Slowhosts"the time of day after a 12 month battle to get my money back after they F-kd up my website and lost me a fortune in revenue/sales.:mad::mad:
 
fortune

Madhatter said:
I would no longer give "Slowhosts"the time of day after a 12 month battle to get my money back after they F-kd up my website and lost me a fortune in revenue/sales.:mad::mad:
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aha - but the beauty is that they could never lose me a fortune

because the website will never generate a fortune

I have devised my very own way of losing a fortune - by sailing around the UK.

Good eh!

v curious to know who you were/are making a fortune from the web

we will also see what happens on Monday when the bloke who I am dealing with comes in - see if he thinks its my fault - as it probably is in some way

D

I am really enjoying the sailing though so I look upon it as an investment in my own personal development as a well rounded human being
 
Searush said:
She already does - she is married to Billy Connelly. He of "never waste an erection" fame.
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Indeed, I think we most of us already know that ;) . I must stop trying to be subtle. Incidentally I thought the quote was Grayson Perry although perhaps the Big Yin has a prior claim, although I doubt if it's original anyway.
 
dylanwinter said:
aha - but the beauty is that they could never lose me a fortune

because the website will never generate a fortune

I have devised my very own way of losing a fortune - by sailing around the UK.

Good eh!

v curious to know who you were/are making a fortune from the web

we will also see what happens on Monday when the bloke who I am dealing with comes in - see if he thinks its my fault - as it probably is in some way

D

I am really enjoying the sailing though so I look upon it as an investment in my own personal development as a well rounded human being
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OK OK :p not so much a fortune but it was steady in the selling department and a steady dribble with click through's ;):D
 
subscriber trends and exponential curves

now any of you maths geniuses like to work out a financial projection based upon ktl subscriber numbers they are

June 14

July 51

August 91

September 216


I wonder what Duncan of the Dragons den would make of my projections

Dylan
 
wells

in the boat park at wells

up on blocks

varnished, painted inside the cabin, hole in the keel repaired, cutlass and stuffer gland repaired

so ready for a winter afloat exploring north norfolk

will go back on the water as soon as the weather man offers three reasonably dry days

one to put it back, one to check for an absensce or leaks and one day to bring it ashore again in case I cocked up

I did lose the best months of the sailing year because of the repairs - but that was my fault for hitting the rocks off cromer - but getting the cutlass gland repaired took a bit longer than I thought

mainly because I had no idea how to do it

Dylan









D
 
got your latest email update, Dylan

and the new website looks great.

The video quality positively radiates - a lovely golden glow surrounded the River Ore bit.

Very inspiring.

Looks like all the 2008 and 2009 vids are working for me too.

Power to your elbow, mate.
 
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