Will this guy make it? 1700 miles in Searider

[StephenP]

I read elsewhere that the transom was being replaced and the engine upgraded, plus some new electronics in the dash (and repairing the tube!) . It was nice to see on MarineTraffic that it was out on the water again yesterday

[bucksmanuk]

Simes205 said:

RDM said:

What gets me is the production values and quality of content on what I assume is a very low budget. These videos are as good, if not better, than anything the main stream media outlets can come up with. Top stuff.

He’s a video director!

Isn’t that part of it though?

Because he is a video director, he can put together an excellent video, at what is probably little comparative cost. A possible budget for this: -

Searider £2K
Modifications- £5K?
1700 miles @ 6 mpg - £3K?
Boat maintenance - £3K
100 full Monty cooked breakfasts - £1K
Support costs - £5k
4K drone - £1500
Stuff I haven’t considered yet - £5K

Let’s call it £30K

He’s got 13 episodes out of it so far, and he’s halfway-ish – so 25 in total, £1200 an episode, and that £30K is going to be 25 hours of telly. No doubt he’s getting some money back from YouTube for it. Each video has 100K views, and at normal YouTube remuneration £350/video. That’s 25 x £350 = £9K in total. Its costing him £21K-ish and he’s put 25 hours of (I think) high quality TV online, and had an adventure of a lifetime that most of us watching it, are genuinely rather envious of -but in a good way. I hope the tourist boards have been in touch with him and tipped a few quid his way for his efforts.

Compared to normal TV costs....

It’s costing the BBC over £15k an episode to pay Fiona Bruce ALONE asking political nonentities some questions with no more than a 1m viewers an episode and thought to be at 700K.

As per similar comments I made on the Harrys Garage channel, this is the beginning of the end of normal terrestrial telly… and on this evidence- probably rightly so.

I just wish there were more like him

[MartG]

bucksmanuk said:

Searider £2K

He got that for free, for helping out a friend - see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Qz73_m0_o

[J3JCV]

StephenP said:

I read elsewhere that the transom was being replaced and the engine upgraded, plus some new electronics in the dash (and repairing the tube!) . It was nice to see on MarineTraffic that it was out on the water again yesterday

She's definitely having a good going over! Without a doubt the most high tech a Searider has ever been.

[thegreenhell]

bucksmanuk said:

1700 miles @ 6 mpg - £3K?

It doesn't really affect your point, but there's no way it's 1700 miles for what he's doing. It would be 1700 if you took the most direct route in big straight lines without following the coastline, but his trip will be several multiples of that, not including all the toing and froing with his support team.

[bucksmanuk]

so basically he's saved on the boat cost but spent it on fuel!

[Ritchie335is]

I can’t wait for him to go through the Pentland Firth.

[dhutch]

And when my mate and his narrowboat where on 'Amazing spaces' on the actual TV, a lot of it was filmed on a smartphone.

[StephenP]

It looks like Goodwin is all sorted now and that they're using of the good weather to make some more progress, as she's made it to Isle of Mull over the past two days. Really looking forward to the next episode!

[Mars]

StephenP said:

It looks like Goodwin is all sorted now and that they're using of the good weather to make some more progress, as she's made it to Isle of Mull over the past two days. Really looking forward to the next episode!

Have you been following on Marine Traffic too?

[StephenP]

Yep!

Every so often I get a flurry of MT and take a quick look where he's got to. Judging by the current progress, he fancies getting around the top of the UK as quickly as possible....

[Master Bean]

His drone has taken a dip.

[dukeboy749r]

That’s unfortunate!

I hope it didn’t contain x number of legs of video, rather just the ‘current’ leg. Otherwise, some of the forthcoming videos may lack some alternative angles of footage.

[outnumbered]

AIS says Goodwin was last seen yesterday on the quay at Ullapool, so I wonder if that's his 1 week's boating holiday done for the year ?

[Mars]

StephenP said:

Yep!

Every so often I get a flurry of MT and take a quick look where he's got to. Judging by the current progress, he fancies getting around the top of the UK as quickly as possible....

My monthly free quota of notifications has expired thanks to the number of movements this month.

[ecsrobin]

New episode is car based.

[Badda]

It’s a shame how this seems to be slowly dribbling to an end. I really enjoyed the early episodes but the lack of momentum recently is disappointing.

[Scrump]

I enjoyed that car focussed episode, not sure if it will appeal to the majority of the channel viewers though.

[Mars]

I really enjoyed that episode - made me want to visit The Ferrari House too, so the video has raised their profile. I now just need a worth car to take to them.

[MartG]

Hands up who knew Mike's surname without having to look it up

Yes, I remember when Victor ran AM