Girl with patreon account goes sailing in hot place
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kinardly
Super Anarchist
Last Tuesday I asked a friend who’s owned quite a few boats for his favorite and he said his Olson 29, then proceeded to give me a very convincing and lengthy rationale. What a shame.
inneedofadvice
Super Anarchist
Forgetting to lock down the tongue was the cause but yes, he brought a j24 trailer to put it on.
Jim in Halifax
Super Anarchist
Looking at the pictures of the wreck, he's lucky he didn't kill someone.
1. "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into"
2. I'm not a follower but from what I've seen Sail Life has primarily been a sailboat refit channel rather than a sailing channel.
3. Sail Life is a revenue generating business.
4. Sail Life has generated that revenue through refitting a sail boat, actual sailing is a massive and financially risky pivot.
All that said Youtube data would suggest he is doing just fine.
To answer your question no he is definitely not stupid. Either a passionate fettler, financially motivated Youtuber or I suspect some combination of the two.
The cynical side of me would suggest that there is a financial incentive to use and promote each product. Maybe those "Dometic Pleatedshade Blinds" or "Garmin MSC10 Marine Satellite Compass" or possibly even the
"Staysail track, scuba tank holder, Rokk mini tablet mount & Scanstrut chargers"
might involve some degree of product placement.The less cynical side of me says he is more of a fettler than a sailor and i'd be inclined to lean in this direction.
robtoujours
Communist
Say it ain't so!
I found some of his fettling entertaining but it was also obvious he was an amateur and overdoing stuff or creating unnecessary projects for himself.
He has an engaging manner and is a good presenter. You only have to look at his first videos years ago to see that it is indeed, a learned skill.
I prefer the approach of James Baldwin of Atom Voyager. Circumnav'd twice solo, then he turns to fettling old boats as a profession, and he has a nice philosophy - KISS and do it right. His documentation on video is clear and without fuss.
Going the other way around - boatbuilder to cruiser - is more questionable, as a lot of people find the reality of cruising doesn't accord with their dreams.
My new favourite fettling channel is "Refit and Sail" - he's a pro yacht rehabber in the Solent who mainly refits CO32's.
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Diarmuid
Super Anarchist
Heh. I was into Mads Dahlke before any of you guys. Totally by accident -- soon after I joined the Albin Ballad BBS, which is about as active as a Funeral Home Convention at closing time, Mads showed up. He'd just bought Obelix, a 1973 Ballad which he had craned into the front yard of his little brick house. His original plan was to fix the structural stuff & get it back on the water. In fact, his "About Me" blurb was (from memory):
... which is pretty funny in hindsight.
He is a coder/electrical engineer/projects guy, so he enjoys messing with digital cameras and chartplotters and stuff. And the superficial refit of that 30' half-tonner became (partly thru necessity, partly thru obsessiveness) a full gut-to-hull rebuild. To his credit, he finished in less than two years and put it back on the water, where he was lonely and cold and moderately seasick as he motored around the Danish coast and canals. So, back to project-ing.Mads started to make videos just for us fellow Ballad owners, to document his process and decision-making. He posted them on YT b/c that was the easiest upload platform at the time. It turned out he liked fixing boats after all, and making videos of fixing boats, and he suddenly had lots of friends all over the world who enjoyed his videos of fixing boats. He ran out of Ballad stuff to fix, so he bought Athena. A woman he met via his boat-fettling videos became a life partner.
And here we are. All very sweet and un-cynical. He's a smart person & a gentle soul.
robtoujours
Communist
Yeah, he seems like a nice guy for sure. He was even at my local marina but I never called around to say hello - I was too busy fettling...
In approach to things he reminds me a bit of Nigel Calder. Into the advanced electrical and live aboard stuff. Seems that would be a way to go in the future - become some sort of consultant.
I personally hate electrics on board and try to keep things as simple as possible. Still have a good amount though.. modern conveniences...
In approach to things he reminds me a bit of Nigel Calder. Into the advanced electrical and live aboard stuff. Seems that would be a way to go in the future - become some sort of consultant.
I personally hate electrics on board and try to keep things as simple as possible. Still have a good amount though.. modern conveniences...
sculpin
Super Anarchist
Probably the most consistent source of new material to write about... it isn't like there are many bleeding edge developments in pulley design... and you can only write once or twice about using dyneema rigging.
Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
But you can fuck about with electronics without stop and still have all of infinity to go. Added to which, if you ever do 'finish' and get it all working, it'll be obsolete and full of unobtainable parts, so you get to start over.
FKT
Not so. You can obtain that (rare) stable configuration and keep running it until the ROMs fade out. Maybe twenty years if you’re lucky. I just hauled my whinedoze95-based lab off to the scrappers last summer. Mac OS7 lasted a long time too.
I just sacrificed a chicken under the last full moon (OK, it was a seagull, but what can you do?) and my Hydra 2000 shit came back to life and started talking to the Zeus s3 stuff. I feel like I need to light a blood candle every time before I pull up the anchor, but so far it just keeps working. Usually.
Panope
Super Anarchist
Perhaps. But I can think of another topic that is a close second............
Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
See 'obsolete'.
I recently had the original HDD die in my old white Macbook. As I quite like that machine even if it was built in 2008, I stuck in a new 250Gb SSD and installed a slightly newer OS release. Back to being my play machine for Arduino programming and some Java dev work.
But - it's still thoroughly obsolete...
FKT
Depth is depth. WInd is wind. (Depth 2.0 is a little fun)
1980 chemical detectors were pretty darned fine. 1990 detectors were more universal but less sensitive. And tied to proprietary dongles and OS’s that were obsolete and grotesquely overpriced before they were even released (Looking at you, Hewlett-Packard).
Still waiting for Mr. Spock’s tricorder. (This is not the Radio-Shack cassette recorder you’re looking for. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.)
1980 chemical detectors were pretty darned fine. 1990 detectors were more universal but less sensitive. And tied to proprietary dongles and OS’s that were obsolete and grotesquely overpriced before they were even released (Looking at you, Hewlett-Packard).
Still waiting for Mr. Spock’s tricorder. (This is not the Radio-Shack cassette recorder you’re looking for. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.)
Goodvibes
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I agree.
Found her fake laugh annoying, his dreads more so.
All spearfishermen need to be eaten by sharks.
Diarmuid
Super Anarchist
Mads Dahlke and partner made the WaPo this morning:
Along with a few other liveaboards.
Along with a few other liveaboards.
Jud - s/v Sputnik
Super Anarchist
Sheesh, the WaPo has really lots its edge. I remember back when Angus Phillips was on their staff and they wrote about interesting sailors, not Covid-refugee self-proclaimed “weekend warrior” liveaboard sailors
. The least the journalist could do is check in here and interview somebody who’s done an interesting passage, like Elegua, or somebody without a YT channel
Diarmuid
Super Anarchist
Wasn't written by a staff journo, but by Dan Parsons -- one of the story's subjects. It's freelance weekend filler material.
Submissions: "Some guy who lives on a sailboat sent us a lifestyle piece. It's okay."
Editor: "Got room in Saturday's Living section?"
Sub: "About eight column inches to fill on page two, next to the Sudoku."
Ed: "Fine. Standard contract."
Submissions: "Some guy who lives on a sailboat sent us a lifestyle piece. It's okay."
Editor: "Got room in Saturday's Living section?"
Sub: "About eight column inches to fill on page two, next to the Sudoku."
Ed: "Fine. Standard contract."
