Dylan Winter makes it to Scotland

Filming, blogging, talking and entertaining small boat cruiser Dylan Winter has had a remarkable few weeks.

He’s arrived in Edinburgh on his Keep Turning Left UK circumnavigation jaunt, and as usual he’s hatching plans for the next leg of his circumnavigation of the UK that are occupying the minds of lots of folks on the YBW forum. He has also become a hit for the Daily Mail website, whose readers have latched onto his tealights and flowerpot heating arrangement – as has the alternative lifestyle crowd.

How confusing… or at least it would be for me. Dylan, I feel sure will take it all in his stride, and entertain us all as he does it.

Editing videos takes time, but there are a series of YouTubes covering his trip from the Tetney on the Humber up to Bridlington. I’ve posted the first below – see the rest at his website,  Keep Turning Left, or on his YouTube account.

Blue-water sailers Susan and Eric Hiscock 1963 film

Beyond the West Horizon

There was a time when sailing appeared on prime-time TV, or something close to it, and here’s the proof – a trailer for a 1963 film made by blue-water sailing husband and wife team Susan and Eric Hiscock. It’s available on the Sailingchannel.tv website.

My thanks to Andrew Craig-Bennet for pointing this out via Facebook.

Yes… people really did speak very differently in those days!

OGA visit Cowes, Isle of Wight, August 2013

Read all about it at the Sailing By website.