Will this guy make it? 1700 miles in Searider
Discussion
ecsrobin said:
akirk said:
just been re-watching the videos - am still amazed when people take boats around our coast with seemingly very little knowledge - e.g. entering the firing range and asking how they were meant to know - well... it is on the map 
but still love what they are doing, and there is sufficient safety clearly in there, and they are choosing the weather carefully... fab, proper British type journey!
What I find crazy is you can go out tomorrow and buy a boat legally and enter that range without knowing (again legally) as there is no formal qualification required. I guess that’s why you have range safety vessels. The amount of times I’ve listened on CH16 with a warship announcing live firing and yet people still enter the range.... but still love what they are doing, and there is sufficient safety clearly in there, and they are choosing the weather carefully... fab, proper British type journey!I have always ignored it and shot across, only been pursued by the range safety launch once although they did seem a bit grumpy.
Stigproducts said:
Some solid progress but if he is stopping over the winter again (having done the easy bit), and he's pretty much got to, he's going to be doing this for several years!
He's less than a quarter of the way around so far, so at this rate he'll be going for another 3-4 years! Also, his estimate of the total distance is some way off. I think he'll end up doing double the 1700 miles, as it's been 730 just to do the south coast and up to the Bristol Channel. I guess 1700 is the shortest straight line distance around the mainland without sticking closely to the coastline.MartG said:
So far he's been relatively close to home, so travel to/from the boat has been easy. I suspect it'll be a different story when he's doing the Northern coast of Scotland
That's a very good point, his mate with the discovery and the mutton chops that pulls him out when he wants a rest, might not want to hang out at various points around the coast for the next 4 years (minimum!). I think he (whiskers) lives on the south coast somewhere as they were keeping it in his barn.However, I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't able to accumulate a small army of enthusiastic viewers willing to help him out. There is a fun youtuber called Geowizard who managed to do a walking quest in Norway recently, based on his subscribers helping him out in various ways (GIS research/logistics help/load of a kayak/money). If I lived in Largs or something and he needed storage, a bit of logistics, somewhere to kip, supplies etc. I'm sure I'd be happy to get involved for a few days.
Stigproducts said:
That's a very good point, his mate with the discovery and the mutton chops that pulls him out when he wants a rest, might not want to hang out at various points around the coast for the next 4 years (minimum!). I think he (whiskers) lives on the south coast somewhere as they were keeping it in his barn.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't able to accumulate a small army of enthusiastic viewers willing to help him out. There is a fun youtuber called Geowizard who managed to do a walking quest in Norway recently, based on his subscribers helping him out in various ways (GIS research/logistics help/load of a kayak/money). If I lived in Largs or something and he needed storage, a bit of logistics, somewhere to kip, supplies etc. I'm sure I'd be happy to get involved for a few days.
I think this is what he will rely on. However, I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't able to accumulate a small army of enthusiastic viewers willing to help him out. There is a fun youtuber called Geowizard who managed to do a walking quest in Norway recently, based on his subscribers helping him out in various ways (GIS research/logistics help/load of a kayak/money). If I lived in Largs or something and he needed storage, a bit of logistics, somewhere to kip, supplies etc. I'm sure I'd be happy to get involved for a few days.
As mentioned earlier he seems a nice chap and although he’s done the south coast if he put a message up saying need a hand or digs I’d be happy to say yes.
I saw a reference to Harry Dwyer in another thread on here, so checked his channel out. We've really enjoyed watching the speedboat series, still have a couple more left to see. It's a lovely combination of genial amateurism, humour, occasional danger, wonderful drone photography and a faint feeling of seasickness as you watch them bouncing along. My wife used to do a lot of scuba diving, so they keep going past places where she says "Oh, I've dived there, you couldn't see anything and it was crap"
Hrimfaxi said:
Awesome! I'll have to watch the one before again, to remind me where he is.
I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
He was going great guns last summer and then seems to have just stopped. He is such as great editor and producer; when a one man band can produce stuff like this it really makes me wonder WTF the BBC think they are doing with their billions.I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
Hopefully he is ready now for an early start to the season and gets to make some solid progress this year - to Morecombe and Beyond (by August? Maybe?)
His videos truly are excellent. I watched the latest one on our smart tv with full surround sound system which made me appreciate the production even more. He has even thought about the surround sound, with some sections having music from the rear speakers and voice over from front as very distinct different sounds. Impressive.
Stigproducts said:
Hrimfaxi said:
Awesome! I'll have to watch the one before again, to remind me where he is.
I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
He was going great guns last summer and then seems to have just stopped. He is such as great editor and producer; when a one man band can produce stuff like this it really makes me wonder WTF the BBC think they are doing with their billions.I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
Stigproducts said:
Hrimfaxi said:
Awesome! I'll have to watch the one before again, to remind me where he is.
I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
He was going great guns last summer and then seems to have just stopped. He is such as great editor and producer; when a one man band can produce stuff like this it really makes me wonder WTF the BBC think they are doing with their billions.I thought the 'rona might have stopped the journey completely, but thankfully not.
Hopefully he is ready now for an early start to the season and gets to make some solid progress this year - to Morecombe and Beyond (by August? Maybe?)
Cameras, sound, drones etc are all really cheap for 4k+ pictures etc.
Editing suites are now just a laptop and a some software and you can quickly and easily bang out a few mins of really good content if you have something interesting in the first place.
That's the key though, having the story. The filming and the technical bit is much easier now and you'll find even the BBC have moved to that, with footage recorded on go pros as well as 8k Red cinema cameras when required.
Filling multiple channels with 18hrs or 24hrs of content a day, is a whole different proposition!
I’ve followed this series and the ‘camper an’ from the start.
You’re right production is excellent possibly because he’s a video director!!
https://harrydwyer.com/
You’re right production is excellent possibly because he’s a video director!!
https://harrydwyer.com/
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