SisterShip Watches ...
By Amy Alton
Living on a Lifeboat People explore the world, cross oceans, or go cruising, in some pretty unusual vessels. While most of us are buying production sail or power boats, the YouTube channel Living on a Lifeboat is doing something completely different. Dani and her partner, Toryn, are giving an old lifeboat a new purpose. The two Canadians have bought a twenty-eight-foot semienclosed davit-style lifeboat and are refitting it to go cruising.
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Amy: How do you divide video production between you and Toryn? Dani: At the beginning I did everything for the videos editing-wise except that Toryn did a quick viewing of it to make sure that I hadn’t said anything egregiously incorrect about the build. We’re quite far behind at the moment and I don’t always remember the exact technical details of what we did a year ago! I’ve actually just started working with an editor though, so now I’m organizing the footage but happily passing it off to him.
Amy: Tell us about how you and Toryn met.
That said, I don’t particularly like being on screen, whereas Toryn doesn’t love the sound of his voice, so we split it in that I do the voice overs and he does any on camera demonstrations.
Dani: We met doing equestrian vaulting, which is like gymnastics and dance on a moving horse. It’s very popular in Europe and far less so in Canada! You compete individually, as a pair, or on a team, and at walk, trot, and canter. We were both in the same club and, later, on the same team. After a year or so of being friends we fell in love in
He’s also in charge of the comments. He takes nothing at all personally, whereas I’m much more likely to, no matter how hard I try not to. So, I’ve asked him to wade in there and moderate or reply to them. He passes on the nicer comments and constructive criticism and spares me the needlessly cruel ones. SisterShip 26
