The Perching Harness

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.

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.