I giggle every time I watch this video. Watching the kite sailors and the wind surfers flying along and then the big Tri pass like they're standing still, and then the wake boarding behind the obviously not powered up tri is even better!!!

I've got a 14 min high resolution report on this very event. It is about 70 MB in windows media file format.

I has most of the footage seen in the 4 min youtube clip plus additional footage and interviews with various windsurfers, sailors and explanations. Especially on how the orma 60's are lifted clear of the water on their curved foils at these speeds. Language is French however.

If anybody is interested or has some 70 mb of free space on their webpage then I'll be willing to upload this file.

Wouter

hi all,
been impressed enough with everyone's cat sailing videos that i've tried to make my own

not particularly good sailing sequences but i was having such fun with the included video editing software on my borrowed macbook that i wanted to get something out

uploaded to vimeo instead of youtube because of youtube's new policy of deleting unauthorised soundtracks

plus vimeo is higher quality and viewers can download the video if they like

http://www.vimeo.com/5075989

kind of a companion video, same lake and boat, to a gps video i made last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAsxV1ltMU&feature=channel_page

Nice vinyls on that sail. And on that hull. Is that the same boat as the one you posted back in the days ? If it is you've cleaned up that boat really well since!

yes, same boat after a lot of thought and hours but very little money

as all the graphics were painted on with basic enamel paint, even the sail!

boat name was made on computer with office's chiller font, each letter printed off as a whole page A4, then blown up to A3 on a copier and cut out to act as a stencil

"nacra 5.2" on stern was photographed from the peeling factory sticker amidships and then printed/enlarged/cut out as a stencil

nacra on mast same, but letters were enlarged further and arranged vertically, (idea copied from capricorn?)

white tiger head ripped off from sailing anarchy's flying tiger boat, copied to A4, into 1cm grid and then grid enlarged 10 times and transferred to sail(with permission of bob perry)

and eyes on inner bows copied from those guys that crossed the atlantic on a 20foot cat a year or 2 ago

so not very original but it has certainly jazzed up an all white boat with white sail into something better looking than the pile of moldy green parts i was offered piled under a tree 3 years ago

erice,

very nice video man.

well done!

Well done indeed! So who's gonna start the CS:Online Video School for those of us who are technically challenged?

I think there is a virtual competition, year end gala in here somewhere.

Its really not that difficult tbh. I taught myself how to use the basic features of adobe premier in about an hour.

Now all I need is a quad core processor to make it not brutally painful to run.

Did you get your hat back?

Mac's make video editing very easy with built in software (imovie hd)...

Very nice... clear, sounds great!.. like the tiger roar at the end to.. nice touch.
what kind of camera . . .

Thanks guys ..... I can't wipe the smile off my face.

The "Defilee Petit Navire" always makes me just want to go sailing .... FAST!!!!

Eric, your vid is great .... and you pointed out what my boat needs .... "eyes" to keep the evil spirits away. Loved the sound track, who is it???

So now you got me in the mood .... this weekend a beach cat race .... then all of July I'll be racing on a 43' Corsair Tri (Triple Threat) ..... Yaa-Hoo

Thanks for "Pumping me up" ..... Look out you "Monomorans"


Harry Murphey

I'm with Karl... is there a sequel planned where we find out if that hat makes it?

Nicely done - best looking 5.2 I've seen in a long time. One minor critique - center that traveler going upwind. The breeze looked very manageable - travel down that couple of inches when your still overpowered with full cunningham on.

Travel up and trap lower

I thought the same thing about the traveler, but i thought perhaps boats work differently in Japan....

I thought for a moment you were going to demonstrate a solo MOB maneuver with the hat. Nice 5.2, and cool vid! Mine looks lots and lots worse. Me want more, me want more (etc)

Love the videos on www.youtube.com/user/itstillertime Great video of an RC 33, radio controlled cat, and the best learn-to-sail video for catamarans ever.

She does make a purty video (in both substance and aesthetics)

no, i'm afraid the hat was history

but then what the lake takes away it gives back again, while kayaking around i've pulled out lots of hats, a wind breaker, life jacket, the fenders i use as boat rollers etc

the iMovie software on the mac was very intuitive, the only time i had to hit F1 for help was in fading out the soundtrack. the title, ending, fade outs etc. are built in to software. even the tiger roar and growl are standard sound effects inside iMovie

music is a track called "thrills" by an odd ball group called "cake" that i quite like. bit of an in joke as the community here was founded by missionaries

i think the traveller is as centered as possible, but can trap lower

the camera is an pentax optio w60, made a little box for it that was strapped to the lower mast for some clips and also some clips with it mounted on a tin plate screwed to the front of an old bicycle helmet

hoping to get the camera on the spreaders and at mast top this year

thanks for the encouragement