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Just to keep you up to speed - I have nine more films in the can - unedited. Then I will have run out of material. After this one I have the delivery of the boat down to Glasgow to sell it - that is just one film of two blokes quickly sailing 250 miles down the coast of scotland. Just the narrative of a journey - no history or poking around ashore.
I sold Harmony for £8.5K and, as agreed with the bloke who had her before, I gave him half of that.
Then I spent the following summer exploring the shallow bits of the the East Coast of Scotland in the 22 footer with full crouching headroom. That will be four films as I took the boat all the way to the top of the Forth, Tay, Moray and Cromarty. Then I brought the Trailer sailer home and dumped it in the garden under a Tarp.
Then I bought a cheaper Centaur in Cornwall for £5.5K and sailed that to the west coast. I spent a summer up there filming (5 more films) before again running out of cash. I sold that Centaur in Scotland in January after owning her for 13 months- again hitting a cash wall. I sold her for £8.5 K and that cleared the debts.
I have not been sailing in Scotland this past summer and I think that I am unlikely to get back there with a waterpoof boat this summer either.
I will see how the cash flow goes over the remaining nine films and see if they earn enough for another crack at the Hebrides.
Sailing in Scotland is a £6,000 a year habit what with killing cars, petrol, moorings, storage ashore - sailing the 22 footer on the Deben close to the house costs £140 a year
If the final films earn enough then I will follow through. If they don't then the journey will have to go on hold for five years when the pension will kick in. Then I will return to Scotland with a still camera and a pen - Scottish damp has killed enough good quality video cameras.
8 сен 2024