Planes, trains and....yachts

Many apologies for the delay in getting down to write another post, but it has been busy here at Yachting TV Towers.

A little detour last week when I was asked to help direct a live Airshow and not one to turn down a challenge I took on the fast, furious and very very noisy job of trying to get 4 cameramen to follow some fast planes doing aerobatics. Overall I think we succeeded with only the odd loop-the-loop passing us by.

But back to quieter and more sedate craft, we had some great news this week when I was told that Yachting TV was reviewed in Sail Magazine, the very popular US title. It was a really positive review so we'll now have to think of some items that our US friends will find interesting. In fact we had an email from an airline pilot in Texas saying that he likes to watch the pilotage items in his hotel room when he's working away "For those of us that are consigned to facing hotel walls for most days it is an absolute delight to be on a yacht chugging down a river on a pilotage briefing or watching a yacht demo at close quarters." thanks for the email Alan.

We also had an email from Sanne Groenhof who is in The Netherlands. She watched the lifejacket test and was emailing to tell us about a survey done in Holland in which they felt that a 150 newton lifejacket wouldn't be enough to turn an unconscious adult over in the water. Thanks to Sanne and we will be following this up with another test in the water as we also look at the MAIB report on the Ouzo tragedy.

And so on to more planes. Today I booked my flights for the World Cruising Club's Classic Malts Cruise. I'll be joining for the first week of the cruise and having my first sail in Scottish waters although not my first malt! I'm really looking forward to the cruise as I'll be sailing in Spray which belongs to Andrew Bishop from the World Cruising Club and is an exact copy of Joshua Slocum's Spray. Plenty to learn about and to read as I haven't read the whole of Joshua Slocum's book "sailing alone around the world". On to the net now to order a copy.

There's plenty more to talk about but at the moment I'm sworn to secrecy on a few very exciting developments for the website and content for the show. The minute I can talk I'll sing like a canary, until then...happy sailing.

Steve