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I hope this is appropriate

I am currently circumnavigating the UK in a 40 year old 19 foot boat
- its a 2,000 mile journey

I have started posting vlogs of my trip here

http://uk.youtube.com/user/KeepTurningLeft

Dylan

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dylan winter wrote in news:57adae50-cf75-4caa-
:

http://uk.youtube.com/user/KeepTurningLeft

Absolutely the finest sailing vlog I've ever seen! Thank you, Dylan, for
posting it here for us to find. I've subscribed to your site so I don't
miss anything from now on. Very professional editing, ready for BBC-TV....

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Thanks for that

very nice of you to say so

The thing is a work in progress - so any feedback on the balance of
the vlogs would be good

BBC has already told me to go whistle

D

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dylan winter wrote in news:c08df0e3-c98e-4139-
:

Thanks for that

very nice of you to say so

The thing is a work in progress - so any feedback on the balance of
the vlogs would be good

BBC has already told me to go whistle

D



I had to rush after watching them. It nearly made me late for a luncheon
date...hee hee.

I agree it seems a shame what millionaires and money have done to your
quaint little fishing villages full of working people. The condos and
mansions are putting the squeeze on our shrimp fleets along the South
Carolina coast in the USA, also. We're quite lucky here living in such a
huge swamp, however. There are thousands of miles of totally
unaccessible waterways with no way for millionaires to get their SUVs and
motorcars to the shore of it, which protects it from invasion. Along the
Atlantic Beaches, the ocean has also done a good many of them in. Large
buildings that were behind the dunes that protected them, are now sitting
in the surf waiting for the inevitable collapse due to those hurricanes
that skirted up along our coasts in past years. Even one of our historic
lighthouses sits in the surf at Morris Island Light. The Atlantic has a
way of getting even.

Sorry about the shifter. Isn't it amazing how they make boat parts that
simply come off? I'd love to hear more about the motor in your boat.
What a pleasure to hear it popping away in the video, but we never got to
see more than the broken shift handle. I had visions of something from
Lister, but then it started itself without the flywheel windup....(c;

What's diesel going for on the docks in the UK, today. We're over a
dollar a litre in Charleston's docks...well over a dollar. I watched
someone buy 9,800 US gallons last weekend while waiting for some friends
sailing back from Tortola on a Jeanneau 40DS. While standing on the
diesel dock, I kept wondering, "What will they do if his credit card
bounces?" 9,800 x $4.89 = $47,922, hardly what one could pay off washing
dishes....OUCH! Even the rich have got to feel the fuel prices, now.

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On Mon, 26 May 2008 02:07:50 -0700 (PDT), dylan winter
wrote:

I hope this is appropriate

I am currently circumnavigating the UK in a 40 year old 19 foot boat
- its a 2,000 mile journey

I have started posting vlogs of my trip here

http://uk.youtube.com/user/KeepTurningLeft

Dylan

Hi Dylan,
Great series.

How did you get the Google Earth zooms onto the video?
Did yoy video the screen or is there a smarter, more hi-tech way?

regards
Peter

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On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:00:02 -0700, jfr wrote:

Another thing that would be "fun" are some shots of you sailing in
slightly heavier weather, provided you could find an inexpensive way
to protect the camera - perhaps someone on the forum knows a way.

It was quite fresh this last week in the uk. I am downloading some
pics and videos from our trip up to Peel, Isle of Man,via Bardsey
Sound
http://www.pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk...ey%20tides.htm
back via Amlwych and the Swellies (
http://www.beaumarislifeboat.com/swellies.htm ) to Port Dinorwic.

http://www.wareing77.plus.com/Isle%20of%20Man%20trip/
Most of the trip was "slightly heavier weather".
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/Isle%2...p/IMGP0066.wmv
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/Isle%2...p/IMGP0017.wmv
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/Isle%2...p/IMGP0011.wmv

More to follow as I convert the videos.

Camera: Pentax W10 (waterproof)..

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:33:11 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Great pictures and videos!. I like seeing the full resolution as opposed to
the heavy Youtube compression.

Thanks! I find the videos get much closer to being realistic but it
srill looks calmer than it was... Still fairly uncrowded around here
in a good breeze - only saw two other sailing boats out in over 200
miles and four days.

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It is an almost new volvo MD engine - it is the same engine as fitted
to the boat originally. the engine is excellent. Everything else is a
bit old. Hence the problem wiht the gear change. The wiring is a
nightmare. The running rigging is shot to heck. Never a day goes past
without something breaking.

Not sure how much tech stuff to leave in the narrative. Don't want to
bore the UK,

As for the change in the coast. That is the reason I am doing the
trip. Our coast has changed dramatically since the boat was built in
the mid sixties. The working man has retreated from the coast. The
political map of the UK tells and interesting story. I think that the
coast of the uk is about to change again. As the windfarms and tidal
barrages come in there will once again be working men along the coast
who are interested in the weather forecast and know what time high
tide is. I want to see my country before it changes forever.

I am having a wonderful time - although I now have an eight week block
of work coming up to complete.

Thanks for taking an interest in the journey.

Please feel free to pass on any feedback. I will make a short video
about the boat - although I think that any sailor who looks at the
short mast and the triple keel will realise that it is no racer. But
she is growing on me. Althoughb the name, "moments" needs changing.

Any suggestions gratefullyn recieved

Dylan

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what boat is it

D

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:06:50 -0700 (PDT), dylan winter
wrote:

what boat is it

D

Andy's Sadler 34
http://users.aber.ac.uk/mjn/theteampage.html

Why did you choose *that* way round?