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    Posted: 31 May 12 at 10:22pm
I have a rope tied round the top part of the hinge and a bit of whipping twine through the metal hinde on the back of the gopro, all is tied and taped so the knots cant come undone. Mine is a massive overkill of rope etc but whatever I do, it will be tied to the boat by some means. I'll take a picture of it and upload it.

I think we need a "Go Pro Boat mounting" thread with pics of how we mount to our boats. The "super duper clamp that costs £60 the RYA provide to its staff, I have seen that break, the suction mounts break too on the suction pad. Wherever it is mounted it will be teathered/duck taped etc.
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Tiller Cam as I promised. Now i just need to find a way to mount it so you can see out of the boat!
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Originally posted by radixon

I have a rope tied round the top part of the hinge and a bit of whipping twine through the metal hinde on the back of the gopro, all is tied and taped so the knots cant come undone. Mine is a massive overkill of rope etc but whatever I do, it will be tied to the boat by some means. I'll take a picture of it and upload it.

I think we need a "Go Pro Boat mounting" thread with pics of how we mount to our boats. The "super duper clamp that costs £60 the RYA provide to its staff, I have seen that break, the suction mounts break too on the suction pad. Wherever it is mounted it will be teathered/duck taped etc.
 
Good advice and like the idea of a new thread. Over the years we have installed minicams in  sorts of hostile environments from fast jets to race cars and I would never rely purely on the mount. Whipping twine is good because of its strength and it fits through the GoPro hinge.
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Originally posted by laser193713

Tiller Cam as I promised. Now i just need to find a way to mount it so you can see out of the boat!



The RS100 looks a tricky one.  If you mount it on the boom I guess the rake is so much that all you look at is the cockpit floor and if you angle the camera up you just get a nice picture of the boom.  How far back do you sit in it?  Could you mount a suction pad to the top deck/wing at the back?
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There's plenty of good 700 footage which has a similar kicked up boom.
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Yes but the 100 has the mainsheet where this is mounted.  Also suction onto deck grip just wont work! Thinking I might dig out an old carbon tiller extension, probably from my old 700 and mount the camera to that and attach to the boom.  I would rather have it fixed to the hull so the footage is more steady though!
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The Cherub class website has a bit of info on mounting cameras to boats. 

http://www.uk-cherub.org/doku.php/videos/tips

tiller extension off the end of the boom is the best imo
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Fromt he videos I've seen, and it's never great watching a video from one position IMO, boom mounted is more dynamic to watch than tiller mounted.
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I agree, my idea is to build up footage over the summer and make one final video.  A mixture of head cam, boom cam, tiller cam etc.

Some footage from the foredeck facing backwards and forwards too.  Its pretty easy to turn a go pro round on the sticky mounts.
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