This beautifully designed, simple and elegant image of Dorothy has made its way onto T-shirts at last, and they are being snapped up by everyone who loves this beautiful boat. What do you think?
I’m super excited and deeply grateful that so many people helped out with this first step in our campaign for production funding. Tony Grove, the restoration specialist working on Dorothy, is also a marine artist. He created an original illustration of Dorothy at sail that captures her gorgeous fantail (more of his distinctive artwork here: http://www.tonygrove.com/artwork/photo-gallery.php) Many thanks to Bryan McCrae of Filament Communications who rendered the image and added text, and Senini Graphics in Nanaimo who gave us a great rate and professionally silkscreened the tees.
Our new Tee-shirts have arrived! July 2013
There are about 20 women’s tees (soft, Gildan cotton V-necks), and 20 men’s (Gildan cotton crew necks) remaining, both in Navy. The suggested donation is $25, all of which goes directly to production costs for filming the documentary, Between Wood and Water, this summer and fall. For more info and shipping costs to a mailbox near you, email Tobi at dorothysails@gmail.com. We’ll be happy to send you one!
We are also pleased to announce that in mid-August we’ll be launching a brand-new, exciting campaign on Indiegogo – the world’s largest “crowd-sourcing” community for creative endeavours. Donations from ordinary people like you, in small and large amounts, will generate the support critical in the making of this documentary. Please encourage your friends, family, community, and everyone who loves boats and maritime history, to sign up on our website so we can update you on where the production is at: dorothysails.com
For the Indiegogo campaign, we are partnering with From the Heart Productions in California, a great company with an awesome track record of funding and supporting independent films, which gives us a fiscal sponsor in the U.S. That means donations from the U.S. get their donors a tax write-off. Bonus!
More than that, FTH President Carole Dean, who quite literally wrote the book on funding indie films, has been an invaluable mentor and asset in helping us reach our goal and get this documentary produced. More info on the campaign to follow, but for now, I encourage you to browse Indiegogo and check out the cool projects from around the world. There is so much creativity and heart out there!
Dorothy and her entourage are jumping aboard…
Love, Tobi
I’ll have a small women’s …
You got it pretty lady… xo
Can I order a womens small , a womens medium and a mans extra large tshirt?? How do you take payment? and please say hi to Tobi from Kendall thank you!!
Hi Kendall!!! lovely to hear from you and yes, hello from Tobi and everyone over here… Would love to send you some tees! At the moment I can take payment through cheque or e-Internet transfer if that works for you, and am setting up paypal in the next few days. For 3 shirts it might be about $5-8 for shipping, but since you’re in Abby and I might have someone coming over they could take them back for you! thank you!!! much love, te
I love this project and I love the shirt I bought when I was on Gabriola. I want to give one to a friend, how can I get another one?
Julian
Hi Julian! Thank you, and I would love to get you another. Just write me at dorothysails [at] gmail [dot] com. Or you can donate here (just give $25 not $50 – which is the perk level for a T-shirt – because you already bought one) and it will go toward this funding campaign and that would be even better! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dorothy-documentary/ Thank you! Tobi
I just made another contribution and am looking forward to receiving another shirt. However, I didn’t see anywhere to specify a size. I would like a men’s small or a women’s medium if possible. Thanks.