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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Damn thing is too long for Facebook, trying to shorten it, haven't really messed about with video editing, number three daughter normally does all that.
I'll see if I can email you the raw file, it offers that option out of iMovie. It's just a head cam of me looming about in the eps, but it does prove that the idea works, it works fine if you sheet off the boom, I then tried sheeting via the main sheet block and cleat, which threw up a problem tack and gybing as the line gets crossed. It'll work fine on the sea, but on the lake, I'm not so sure that any advantage it may give would be worth the possible problems off the boom sheeting brings, plus on that lake you don't really get to sail long enough for hiking pain to cut in. Interesting and fun experiment though. I'm going to leave it in place. |
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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I can stick it youtube for you if want- post me the SD card, I promise not to splice it with tranny porn (again)
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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I've used it now, got a video I'm wrestling to extract from this helmet cam thing I've had laying about for 18 months and forgot I had.
I tried it down the lake and to be honest if I'd raced with it I'd have been toast, but on the sea, there's no doubt in my mind now it'll be a welcome addition. It's a bit weird to try something like this, you don't know what's exactly going to happen but I'll show you the vid, uncut so you can make your own judgements. Just need to get it up somewhere I can post a link to. |
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Do Different ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
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Well, the mechanics looked flawed to me.
BUT. It's wednesday and honest injun, I'm interested to hear how it went in practice.
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boatbasher ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 17 Aug 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 76 |
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No doubt you are the proud owner of a number of donkey dicks ... |
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Dunno it should be under tension, that's where I've been using it of late, had a traveller made from garden hose to stop the bloody rope engaging with the block during transitions, rear sheeting didn't do me any favours and it's been about as successful in that position as anything else I've tried. The only issue now i can foresee is my tendency to over sheet, but hopefully the 'feel' I'll get from the boom, which i miss so much, might compensate if I'm hooked in.
I've actually got another spreader hook with a blocking device to stop the spreader dropping out if it is an issue or there are things called donkey dicks that do the same thing. |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Won't it get knocked out of that hook a little too easily? Rather a strange angle, too?
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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So, here's the fall back scenario, the chicken loop hooks into a spreader bar shackled to the hull and everything works the way it used to.
![]() ![]() Bit of fun, or could it be a serious bonus, who knows, only one way to find out, racing it tomorrow afternoon. |
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sargesail ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1459 |
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I'm not sure what made me laugh more the 'blockundtackelhandler' (note 1), or the not so gentle mockery by GRF's daughters.
Note 1: A device featured in a Leslie Thomas novel for lowering a man onto a reclining woman whenever she requires. Until now never put into production.
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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No, please don't apologise, you'll make me feel bad I took no offence from anything you might have said... If in doubt the sort of character I am, both here and in real life, I'd assume irony is in there somewhere.. ![]() ![]() |
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