In three weeks we will put the docks back in. I'm an inland sailor right now in Western Iowa (Midwest, USA) but we have a great club and marina. I want to thank you, I had a knee replacement (right) and a knee rebuild (left) I watched your videos as I was healing. With out those it would have been a tough winter but with your videos I was able to manage my sailing addiction. Thank you again. Bob W
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
I do not know how you guys manage to get through your winter's - at least I can feed my addiction through the tough months
@59sowhat
10 жыл бұрын
Sail: here is one of the most beautiful things in life. Thank you for sharing your marvellous experiences. Good wind with the new boat.
@dalehilltopfarm
6 жыл бұрын
By far the best video journals on KZitem. Well done.
@FrederickBush
10 жыл бұрын
Hello. I enjoyed your video on here. I have a 1964 (?) Westerly Windrush. I Live in Michigan and my daughter and I put her in the water back in 2006 for the summer (docked). My daughter, 7 yrs old at the time, took out boat (Starglazer) out one morning after breakfast and it was such a beautiful day outside, I didn't bother checking the weather or boater forecast for Lake Huron/Saginaw Bay. Well we were about 10-2 miles out and a huge storm hit. I could see it rolling our way as I looked west back towards the marina. we got about 8 miles from shore then the waves were I would say easy 8'-10' waves. Maybe even bigger than that. Plus the storm was making the water furge where we had swells of at least 6' tall. It was so hard to see land when get got close enough in to where we should have been able to see land. There were times my Windrush was on top of a 10' or bigger wave that was on top of a 6' or bigger swell. I thought I was on a roller coaster ride. As soon as our bow peeked over the top of the wave, my windrush would dive nose first 16' to 20' down into the water below. As a full grown man that has served in the USCG.... I was scared.I started up my motor, and Volvo Penta MD-1 and set a course directly for the channel that would take us into the harbor or our Marina and slip. My father called me on the cell phone. He was on the west side of the state. I made my conversation with him very short because I was making sure I was keeping my heading right on track. My daughter didn't even seem phased by this and didn't realize the size of this storm. She just calmly said to me, "Daddy, I am going to go lay down and watch a video. I have a flat screen tv/dvd player mounted in the galley. While she watched videos, unaware of the dangers of this storm, I took out my Palm Treo 650 and video taped our trip back into the marina. I am telling you the waves were huge on top of those swells! The waves were crashing several feel over my bow. You got to love the self bailing systems on these boats! I have NEVER been so scared in a boat ever before or since. I will try to see if I can find the videos of this storm we were in. If I find them I will upload them on youtube under Westerly windrush in storm. I know God was my co-captain that day! After finally making it back into the marina and tied up to my slip, my daughter comes out from below and told he her "tummy" hurt. I told her I was sure it was. Mine wasn't feeling great either. I have never got sea sick in my life..... I was close this time. Anyways, I was really amazed on the beating and bashing that my Westerly could take. It handled very well considering does anything her size handle and take on waves almost the size of her? I know I shouldn't complain and I am not, but if there were two things I could changed about Starglazer is that she have more than a 7-9hp single cyl. diesel motor more in here. Maybe a MD-2 would be great! And the last thing I would do, and I am considering doing when I redo her this summer on the trailer is that I give her a steering wheel helm, instead of a tiller stick.
@StandardGoose
10 жыл бұрын
The Windrush was a pretty little boat! You're lucky to have found one in good condition. The Centaur replaced the Windrush in 1969. They're very simillar. Back in the early days of GRP (anything pre-1979 or thereabouts) they built boats with hulls like battleships because the material was new and nobody really knew how strong it was likely to be. Early Westerly boats are famous for being built to take a beating.
@bigwiguk
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dylan, for a very enjoyable journey. I did not realise the Centaur had such a shallow draft.
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
90cm -not much is it? Turns out it is a better creek crawler than I thought it would be
@varacskmetal
9 жыл бұрын
Nice video quality, and good cut! I love Westerlies and the Solent:)
@leocorsetti434
10 жыл бұрын
I am enjoying your video's very much! I wish they were numbered in the order that you took them. Some of the time I am going backward and other times, I am going forward. Please keep them coming, The English countryside is really beautiful. Leo Boston, MA, USA
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
they make make more sense on the website
@leocorsetti434
10 жыл бұрын
What is your URL? BTW, I sail a Tartan 33, the cover is coming off this week some day. We only have a 6 month sailing season in the Boston area. Would love more.
@JPeterHaliburton
10 жыл бұрын
Leo Corsetti www.keepturningleft.co.uk/ I'll be taking the cover off my sailboat (PY23) soon too.
@blueskyredkite
10 жыл бұрын
This area is more familiar to me, I'm looking forward to getting back there in the summer, as soon as I've cured the diesel bug in my tank. :-(
@pswank68
10 жыл бұрын
Yay! Nice first sail.
@john3Lee
10 жыл бұрын
That was really interesting to see the entry navigation into the harbour... I have to say, that this boat looks quite a "step up" into a much higher comfort zone, compared with your other boats...
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
I have her for one year - then I have to sell her - and back to Katie L
@monomattock1
10 жыл бұрын
Fenders out tut tut ! Glad you are in a decent sized boat - should keep Jill happy-er.
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
just the one - although when sailing alone of katie L I often leave one on each stern quarter with a small rope loop on the bottom as a dead man's chance. It is nice to have the headroom and when there are five aboard this summer then it will be essential. I will be going back to the small boat in 2015
@joegrixti3241
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing..
@KeepTurningLeft
6 жыл бұрын
it is odd how some films grab people...
@LinuxUser119
10 жыл бұрын
you've got yourself a good boat
@Wattsegler
10 жыл бұрын
Nice video! Wishing you an beautiful sailing season 2014! Best wishes from the northern germany coast (Riddle of the Sand) ;)
@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar
2 жыл бұрын
Wavedancer was originally from Littlehampton in 1982 previously known as March hare of Arun
@simoncarteroz
10 жыл бұрын
Great to see you have got your boat in the water it looks great. Enjoyed you video what camcorder are you using. After seeing you unboxing of the camcorder onthe the boat I WENT OUT AND BOUGHT A PANASONIC HXWA30 I am very happy with it. Best of luck with the trip around Scotland
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
it is a very good camera - comfortable in your pocket - have you made any sailing films?
@janswanwick6221
10 жыл бұрын
But that is turning right!
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
that is correct - but Littlehampton is an expensive hole - Chichester Harbour is an expensive paradise
@philsmith7398
9 жыл бұрын
Nicely done! And great video quality. I like how you linger on the view, as well as letting us get close to the details of buoys, mooring warps, fittings etc. Thanks for sharing. Quick question- is your camera head- or arm-mounted or are you working one-handed as you film?
@KeepTurningLeft
9 жыл бұрын
the camera lives on the tripod which I use like a monopod - framing is done with the flip out viewfinder lots of the steering is done with the tiller-pilot leaving me free to film D
@duaneharnes
9 жыл бұрын
Well that was fun.
@StandardGoose
10 жыл бұрын
Considering a Centaur myself as a first boat. Need something cheap and cheerful, but solid and stable as my wife is a little bit nervous.
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
you can buy Harmony in the spring
@wadetarzia
10 жыл бұрын
Wait, I'm confused; you started your KTL over again from the bottom. Are you going to pick up where you left off by sailing as fast as possible back up the coast, or trailer the new boat up there?
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
the plan is to do some sea trials and filming in the solent then May 17th three old blokes will sail her straight to Scotland without stopping. I reckon six days should do it - same number of days as years for KTL. Then when the University holidays start the boat will fill up with peripatetic and changing crews of young people and we will spend the summer in Orkney and Shetland. Get the boat to West Scotland in time to sell her in spring 2015 - or bring her back to the Solent in one trip. Then back to Katie L for the slow solo stuff again during the asummer of 2015. KTL makes Twin Peaks seem simple.
@wadetarzia
10 жыл бұрын
KeepTurningLeft OK, thanks, I get it. Sounds great, have fun!
@hellohellohello6847
6 жыл бұрын
Will you ever sail the Atlantic, and show us the Caribbean??
@KeepTurningLeft
6 жыл бұрын
too expensive, too much paperwork, too hot - having said that, I am curious about what a solo transatlantic would do to my head - four weeks alone - how would I react? It will never happen though. Just struggling to finance the completion of a simple journey around a small island
@hellohellohello6847
6 жыл бұрын
KeepTurningLeft well I would love to see it! Peace
@simplesailor401
10 жыл бұрын
Hi i watch all your videos as i love sailing and am keen to hunt for a boat i am thinking about a westerly centaur i have not come up with any on you tube doing an ocean crossing do you think they would be ok to do it
@markisLem
10 жыл бұрын
Do you guys sail on the wrong side of the road, too? Here in the states, it's red right returning yet you're passing all your red cans to port. Just curious.
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
just keeping close to where I hope the channel is - our nav marks are reversed though - red is still port but they are the opposite way round when it comes to entering or leaving port
@StandardGoose
10 жыл бұрын
There are two different international systems for channels; some countries do it your way, some countries do it our way. Worst thing is; there's no geographic consistency. It's not like Europe all do it one way. There are countries in Europe who do it your way, countries in Asia who do it the UK way, countries in South America who do it your way...it's anarchy. I don't understand why we can't have an international treaty; it works with Collision Regs.
@stuartmccloud307
9 жыл бұрын
nice
@gkarjala
6 жыл бұрын
I see good things it that Westerly's future.
@KeepTurningLeft
6 жыл бұрын
It was a lovely 8 months of sailing... then she left me.
@gkarjala
6 жыл бұрын
All good things must end, better to love and lost ....etc...., but it lives on in the ether!!! Thx Dylan Winters, for quality content.
@gkarjala
6 жыл бұрын
BTW, as an aside, i thought you were a tad hard on those Alaskan YT sailor kids. That said, i have nothing but respect for you, your family, and your viewpoint. And again, thx for your contribution to the world.
@KeepTurningLeft
6 жыл бұрын
I think sailing somewhere pristine and blowing the locals to Kingdom come is not a nice thing to do - they should leave the bears alone to get on with being bears.
@StillpondTech
10 жыл бұрын
Dylan, we are going to have to find a way to keep her.
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
no worries - I am enjoying this year - next year will take care of itself
@Michael-nc9cp
6 жыл бұрын
are-you-enjoying-it-boat---------haha
@KeepTurningLeft
6 жыл бұрын
I do not really understand the comment Michael. Would you care to elucidate
aha - now I understand. I do try to not anthropomorphise my boats - but there is a certain joy when a boat sails for the first time in a couple of years. The machine is allowed to behave in her own way rather than being a lumpen thing ashore or tied to a pontoon. Like when you turn a horse loose in a field.
@vladimirvlad7713
9 жыл бұрын
Na zdorovie Yours vine ...:-).
@bomax1066
10 жыл бұрын
Why are you going back to your old boat and not staying with this one
@KeepTurningLeft
10 жыл бұрын
too much skin in the game - the deal with the first owner is that I got Harmony for a song, did the work on her, use her for a year, sell her and give him half the money
@bomax1066
10 жыл бұрын
KeepTurningLeft OK That makes séance, looks like you have done a great job off doing her up, good luck on the trip north
@pswank68
10 жыл бұрын
@marklchapman2785
2 ай бұрын
Make sure you take a sextant on such a long voyage 😂
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