Here is another little “Movie Trailer” video. I hope you are not all holding your breath for the full-length movie release. We just have so much on our schedules now it’s hard to find the time to create a full-length motion picture. For those thinking “Wow” - don’t be too impressed, I use a Mac and this is just a template that I fill in. The rest is all Apple and GoPro Hero magic. I think it is best if I just burst my bubble now.
I wanted to just give you a few nibbles of our experience under sail. This video has snippets of sailing in fair weather under the spinnaker as well and some pretty aggressive sailing with the storm jib up. The bright orange sail in a few of the clips is the storm jib. It zips on over the top of the furled headsail. It is very sturdy, small in size compared to the normal jib and designed for sailing in high winds and rough conditions. We had it up for 5 days in a row.
I had hoped to capture a feel for the experience of being in some high winds and rough seas but after looking at it the video I see that I failed. It just is not the same watching it on a computer screen as it is Being There. Try watching the horizon of the sea relative to the motion of the boat to get an idea of how much we are moving about. Sadly, none of us attempted to do any videography during the worst of the storm, it was just not possible to hold on, move about and manipulate the camera at the same time. Not to mention that taking video was about the last thing on our minds. Oh well.
Enjoy!
I'm having trouble getting the video uploaded to this site. The above is a link to the post on YouTube. I'll keep trying to get it here.