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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | A few weeks ago there was a discussion here about camerapositions. So I changed my helmet camera into a camera mounted astern on a little pole on a support bar which I already had. Tried it today. A bit cold (3 degrees Celsius), a tail of northern swell and according the meteo above 5 Bft. Which wasn't by the way. Because of this new camera position I was tempted to extend the scenes to other things then just the sea. Watching everything back, I'm content with this cam position. Forum thank you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKThlRmCGE&list=ULronald reeder
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | The open tramp is essential in passing a high break. Though there are ofcourse also downsides to a net-tramp. But sailing away from the beach with a normal tramp was sometimes impossible for me (pushed back).
Yes the angle of view is always the problem with cameras, I think. You never have the range of the human eye.
But with my Sanyo-camera, I think its rather good. Mind you; there is a straight horizon in the images and I'm hanging out almost just sidewards away from the camera. I've no experience with a go-pro camera, but I'm now always out of the picture.
Which is good by the way.
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hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?.. "huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
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#255412 12/03/12 09:21 AM 12/03/12 09:21 AM | MN3
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | what kind of boat is that? Interesting seeing a singlehander sailing a sloop rig
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | (I)like you Mn3. Red your profile.
Tony, to make it even more worse: I'm literally the neighbour of the nuclear plant. I live nextdoor on the dike of the provincial road. Sometimes I get the post from them and viceversa.
When the nuclear reactor should explode, I'm the first to be just broken down in atomes.
For that reason I have less fear
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hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?.. "huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | Jay, you have to digg dowm in the files of this catsailor forum. I wrote both in the general forum as well as in the homebuilt section several times about my catdesign.
It's a homebuilt one-off 15 ft epoxy-carbon cat with full foam inside and based on the good old Prindle-15
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | Yes Jay and 3 degrees Celsius plus 20 knot makes a windchill of around minus 6!
But let me tell you a little secret of my place near the nuclear-plant. The reactor has a wateroutlet in the sea for her secundary coolwater. In fact there is a blown-off each day via a pipe in the sea of this hot water. (I used to walk/swimm to the end of this pipe for having a hot bubble bath in my studenttime).
So starting to sail alongside this pipe should theoretically make things more bearable. But practically it doesn't care a hang!
ronald
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hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?.. "huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
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Posts: 217 Palm Harbor, FL | What I like best when watching youtube sailing videos, and something that seems sorely lacking, is seeing how the crew handles transitions; tacking and gybing of course, but also wave crests and big wind changes.
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | But Daniel, honestly, you do know, don't you, that transitions are the necessary evil in catsailing.
I mean if I do not gybe at a certain moment (I never tack), I will endup in England. In your case you will endup in Afrika, I guess. So you have to.
But shooting that movements with a onboard cam is always a disillusion. What you endup seeing are images of stiff figures that go on all fours laborious to the other side. And in my case with the cam astern and doing a gybe you will only see a big tired face, flashing before the lens.
No, I carefully delete all these moments in my footage.
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | First its never necesssary and second I can't.
My 15 ft cat is 2.55 m beamwide and is for that reason (or some other?) difficult to turn through the wind. Only the oldfashioned stitchin/stitchout manoeuvre works. Besides that, because my boom is rather low situated, when tacking, I have to squeeze my fat body on my belly to the other side.
I assure you, not a thrilling sight and very uncomfortable too.
Doing a gibe in 25 knots in high waves is not only exciting but feels more safe then tacking
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Posts: 524 Petten Netherlands | The pliers was a little practical joke to show it is a home-made cat (you'r the first who mentioned it).
I think that indeed this new cam position eventually will bore also.
And I don't consider myself as superhuman. Well, I obviously am an exception with regard to catsailing in wintertime. But with windsurfing I have a lot colleagues at sea in this time. Not to mention the wave-surfers and the kitesurfers!
A time ago I've told this forum that most dutch beaches can't be reached by sailors in wintertime.
So I suppose there are enough dutch catsailors who would also like to sail in wintertime but can't. (At least that's what I hope for the honour of my country)
ronald
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | I just bought a camera to use on the boat. I was headed toward a GoPro Hero Black edition but the reviews on Amazon were terrible (battery life issues, freezing up, etc.). I just ordered a Contour+2 instead that has some of the same features (using an iphone as a viewfinder / start-stop remote, setup, etc.) and will be trying it out at spring fever.
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