Friday, September 17, 2010

Dylan Winter just Keeps on Turning Left...

Just a quick shout out to Dylan Winter and Super Slug his almost 50 year old 19ft Van De Stadt designed Mirror Offshore triple keeled sail boat, which in his own words "sails like a pig".

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Dylan and his adventures, he has been slowly undertaking a circumnavigation of Britain poking into every waterway which he can.


Along his journey he has been making regular documentary style snippets of the trip, which along with the sailing, include local history and geography...it's actually quite entertaining.
I've recently starting watching the videos again. Originally the videos were posted on youtube, at a relatively low quality. However, Dylan now has his own website and you can either watch the vid's in postage stamp size windows or for the measly sum of US$5 (or AUS$5 and a bit), you can access (and download) the HD versions.


I was having a few issues downloading the vid's, so a quick email off to Dylan and he was more than happy to help sort me out...turns out all it needed was for me to try doing it with a beer in my hand...who'd have thought!!


So anybody who wants to have a bit of a look at the British coastline through the eyes of a local sailor, you could do a lot worse than dropping $5 in his direction.


Happy Sailing...

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