Dylan Winter

[Joe Montana]

Has anyone else discovered Dylan Winter? I don't know much about him -- only that he sails along the very flat, very tidal coast of East Anglia (UK) and posts sailing clips that are quirky, intriguing and quite possibly addictive. (This is how I picture Germany's Frisian Coast, based on Childers' "Riddle of the Sands.") Winter also weaves in Google Earth footage, geography lessons and historical tidbits, taking the sailing video genre to a new level. He just might be the "Julia Child" (or "Two Fat Ladies on a Motorcycle") of sailing videos! Hope you enjoy them. (Note: View more than one for the full effect.)

Happy New Year!

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dylanwinter1#g/u

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dyl ... UNTmQ004v0

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dyl ... JgEM1Cvr9s

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dyl ... EJGS3U0myA

[Solmar]

Joe, thanks for getting me in trouble with Debbie. I can't seem to stop watching.

Brian

We do miss the "Two Fat Ladies"

[Warren S]

Much like the type of sailing/gunkholing on the Pamlico Sound area. Great way to endure the on-the-hard time.

[Carter Brey]

Wonderful. Thank you for these links.

Did you notice the clew blocks on the headsail sheets?

CB

[Warren Kaplan]

How marvelous is that!!! And the narration is perfect!!!!

[Joe Montana]

"Did you notice the clew blocks on the headsail sheets?"

No, I didn't -- I was so focused on the navigation aids (red left returning?). His head sail looks fairly small, so I wonder why he would need that much mechanical advantage. No winches, perhaps?

[pete faga]

Thanks for the link Joe. I just started Riddle of the Sands 2 days before your post. perfect timing!

[Jim Walsh]

This was a great find. Very interesting perspective. Very addictive. You just have to see each installment.

[Duncan]

View more than one for the full effect

I reckon, if I can pace myself, these might get me through to the spring.
Thanks very much for posting these - I've emailed the links to several friends already.

(By the way, if you go to dylanwinter1's 'channel' on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/user/dylanwinter1), the videos are organized into 2008, and 2009, in chronological order).

I 'subscribed' to his channel last night, and had a nice note from him this morning.

[Stan W.]

I'm enjoying this too.

I actually lived in Littlehampton (episodes 4 and 5) for a college semester. At that time, it was a sleepy, blue-collar, seaside retreat, made all the more somnambulant by the fact that I mostly was there during the off-season. Winter says it's starting to go chi-chi but, considering it has been almost thirty years, it looks remarkably unchanged to me.

[John Vigor]

Wonderful. Thank you for these links.

Did you notice the clew blocks on the headsail sheets?

CB

Yes, Carter, I can't imagine why he'd need blocks on the jib sheets because the jib is so small. He sails a Mirror Offshore 19, a puffy oversized 19-foot dinghy with a cabin, a small inboard engine, and bilge keels so it can take the ground upright. It's by no means an offshore cruiser, just a coastal motor-sailer, although it does have a distinguished designer in Van de Stadt. Here's what Dylan Winter (62) says about his boat in his own words:


Mirror Offshores have been around for a long time

they are built like brick block houses

rather an old design

several atlantic crossings to their credit

and one circumnavigation

goes like a pig to windward - hardly moves in anything under a force three so its not a racing machine

I have bought it with the intention of sailing around the UK

it seems rather rude to live on an island and never having sailed
around it

as for space - yes modest

full crouching headroom

- but it has enough for two and it has a separate heads

Dylan
date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:36:25 -0700 author: dylan winter

Cheers,

John V.