Sunday saw a chance for a bunch of us to get out and get followed around by Tom Castle in a rib (singlehanded, bit shakey!) with my camcorder. Interesting sailing around with the 600’s. Very little in it speed wise upwind and down against Sam. We had a few short course races running windward leeward which was a good measure of performance. Generally we were all pretty close on speed and only seperated by the number of mistakes…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iaQL8ItUXA]
I also finally got around to taking out my wide angle Helmet Hero, fixed to a gantry on the back of the boat (which I’ve made months ago and never used!). Quite possibly the single most useful training aid I’ve found – I can see that I am not hiking at all really… Quite hard to tell what was going on outside the boat so I was going to overlay it with the first video but I had an argument with Final Cut so we’ve gone our seperate ways…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCWzWacyl8]
I’ve purposefully left off a review of the Steve Nicholson Race, as I’d like to do it justice properly later and have work to do!
Gantry cam is the best angle i’ve seen yet. Love it, like having a Moth on a stick. (We should get those a la top gun, for training purposes..)
Seriously nice soundtracks and gantry cam rocks. Thanks for a good escape after a long day’s work.
Gantry cam is cool – that is great to have a decent wide angle shot.
Hey Mike,can you post some shots of your camera gantry pls.Bruce
Yup, no problem Bruce…