Yell Sound, The Shetland Bus, Sea Lice, Curlews and Bikinis

Well I'm feeling like a bit of a plonker, I really must get out less..... I've only just found this thread and realised I'm several days behind everyone else with all the suggestions I've been making elsewhere.

Dylan, I do understand why you had to sell up but please don't let the absence of your own boat stand in your way. I'm sure there are plenty of people around who would be only to pleased to offer you far more than just financial support to carry on making these films, even if it did mean sailing up and down the same piece of water dawn to dusk just so you got your perfect shot!
 
Triassic said:
Well I'm feeling like a bit of a plonker, I really must get out less..... I've only just found this thread and realised I'm several days behind everyone else with all the suggestions I've been making elsewhere.

Dylan, I do understand why you had to sell up but please don't let the absence of your own boat stand in your way. I'm sure there are plenty of people around who would be only to pleased to offer you far more than just financial support to carry on making these films, even if it did mean sailing up and down the same piece of water dawn to dusk just so you got your perfect shot!
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If you watch my films you will see that the sun is often shining. The reason is that I have the flexibility to watch the weather forecast and when the light is good I can go sailing. Co-ordinating that with another blokes life would be impossible.I cannot borrow a boat either - to film I have to be close to the edge - so I bump into rocks and sandbanks all the time.

It is much better if I clonk my own boat on a rack than yours. I hit rassay so hard that the camera and tripod was knocked out of my hands and parfted company with each other half way down the side deck.

You would not want to loan me a good boat.
 
fergie_mac66 said:
Look's like a 2 year building a duck punt sorry warram film would be un order . Basically 2 big duckpunts tied together with string.
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I know that is a joke but

boat maintenance bores me rigid.

I made the film about preparing the boat to sell

it was 8 minutes of the viewers life - it was a week when a 61 year old 6 foot 15 stone man creaked and huffed and groaned painting all the scores of orrifices on a centaur for another man to enjoy

The man who bought her today said she looked lovely. The maintaining of boats is a real chore.

sail now fettle later is my motto

My aim is to find a way of getting out to the outer hebrides for at least two more seasons in a well found safe boat with an engine that will keep me out of the clutches of the RNLI and allow me to film in what is almost certainly the finest cruising ground in Europe. I have lots of camera gear which would prefer to be warm and dry rather than cold and damp.

sadly I am in a hurry I am 61 - I am fit -

I am in a hurry to sail in that wonderful, challenging place as much as I can while I can. I want to see those skies and experience those tides

- without selling the house of course because I have a wife who loves her garden as much as I love my boats.

Dylan
 
Iminei said:
Yebut if you had a 6ft draft fin keeler how much quicker would you get to Bembridge!
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I hear what you say - but if the point is just to get it over and done with then I could just borrow a mobo - I have closed the gap when I sailed up the irish sea so I have already sailed around the UK - I am not doingit for the achievement - it is to make entertaining films that will allow me to experience at first hand some of the wonders these islands have to offer the luckiest sailors ever to have existed.

D
 
Well you might have a while yet .We met a Couple on a Big mobo in padstow both mid 80s Just filling up with diesel.
Heading for Norway for the winter perhaps 4 years ago.They had just come from west coast of ireland . So if you can sail for another 24 years befor you switch to the dark side you might get through another 3 or 4 bilge keelers.
 
Dylan
ever considered chartering an appropriate boat for the winter period. I'm sure there are many suitable boats sitting around not doing too much. you might find an owner only too happy to see his boat used with some financial benefit.

some might think it quite feasible to approach a boat builder and offer to promote their product for several months. If I was trying to sell a new design and had the chance to get such a large amount of publicity Id not think twice.The cost to them will be minimal and could double their sales in a year. whilst I appreciate you probably think this is pie in the sky idea, id say it has a very high degree of success and with a plan put to suitable builders they will snap your hands off.

Steveeasy
 
steveeasy said:
Dylan
ever considered chartering an appropriate boat for the winter period. I'm sure there are many suitable boats sitting around not doing too much. you might find an owner only too happy to see his boat used with some financial benefit.

some might think it quite feasible to approach a boat builder and offer to promote their product for several months. If I was trying to sell a new design and had the chance to get such a large amount of publicity Id not think twice.The cost to them will be minimal and could double their sales in a year. whilst I appreciate you probably think this is pie in the sky idea, id say it has a very high degree of success and with a plan put to suitable builders they will snap your hands off.

Steveeasy
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Your starter for ten

- which builder would be interested in loaning a boat to an old bloke to go bumping into scottish rocks and then make films which only reached 12,000 sailors - half of them in America. I am not saying that it would be impossible but I think it would be hard sell to land.

I am not a fit person to borrow a boat - I deliberately run aground, I stumble around in the dark, hit rocks and hate maintenance.

D
 
dylanwinter said:
If you watch my films you will see that the sun is often shining. The reason is that I have the flexibility to watch the weather forecast and when the light is good I can go sailing. Co-ordinating that with another blokes life would be impossible.I cannot borrow a boat either - to film I have to be close to the edge - so I bump into rocks and sandbanks all the time.

It is much better if I clonk my own boat on a rack than yours. I hit rassay so hard that the camera and tripod was knocked out of my hands and parfted company with each other half way down the side deck.

You would not want to loan me a good boat.
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What you need is a retired bloke who has nothing better to do with his time than find reasons to go sailing because it is infinitely cheaper than some of his other hobbies. Obviously if he happens to have a trailer sailer that can pretty much sail anywhere that is wet and could pick you up on his way north that would be a bonus, however if you do find such a bloke it might be a good idea to keep him away from nuclear submarines.......
 
dylanwinter said:
Your starter for ten

- which builder would be interested in loaning a boat to an old bloke to go bumping into scottish rocks and then make films which only reached 12,000 sailors - half of them in America. I am not saying that it would be impossible but I think it would be hard sell to land.

I am not a fit person to borrow a boat - I deliberately run aground, I stumble around in the dark, hit rocks and hate maintenance.

D
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Look at it from a different perspective. your a boat builder launching a new model in a limited market. you can provide them with the best opportunity to put their new boat on the water showing to almost all their current and new potential buyers not only in the uk but overseas at the cost of a bit of depreciation on one boat. do you think they will be bothered over a few dings, they will be too busy preparing new boats they will have sold by you throwing theirs around

you have just proved to everyone that your KTL brand awareness has just lead to the sale of an old centaur in less than a week and not only that increased in value by nearly £3,000.. I'm sure plenty of people here will tell you who to approach,

Now is the time, while you have the awareness.

Steveeasy
 
I think you over credit the power of the brand

I bought it at the end of a season in end of season condition - I bought her in October with all that entails. Then I tested everything including the rig and the engine. The I sold her 16 months later in top condition at the beginning of a season

she has a well known track record. She has in mast reefing which is rare in centaurs and amazingly convenient for a slightly insecure owner.

She has the diamond of an engine

now which boat builder are you thinking of

if you can think of a suitable one I would be more than happy to send them an email

Dylan

PS - I also make jolly good films
 
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steve yates said:
JAlso check out www.solwaysailing.co.uk , this guy Dave used to charge people to come along for a day out. It wasn't official training or anything, just basically a contribution and they got a days sailing. He used it to help fund his marina fees.
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Someone in that area was squashed firmly by the MCGA for running what they decided was a commercial operation in an uncoded boat, taking paying guests out for fixed rates. Dylan might be able to get away with accepting contributions to the marginal costs of a trip ("we'll share the mooring bill" is fine) but not with anything which would defray the overall costs or make a profit ("fifty quid covers your share of the winter storage" is not OK).
 
I still think, Dylan, that you may be missing a trick by not looking at a subscription based model. Has eleonor not suggested it?
6000 loyal (ish) you tube subscribers. Persuade 5% to subsribe, a one off annual payment if £30 gives you £9k a year to support your trips. Your subscribers get to access all the films you make that year, abd the back catalogue.
Rather than getting folk to click and pay every time they watch a film, you would just need to get them to click and pay once.
 
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