Towing a GoPro
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Category: Dinghy classes
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Topic: Towing a GoPro
Posted By: tink
Subject: Towing a GoPro
Date Posted: 01 Apr 17 at 6:19pm
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I am currently developing my open sailing canoe and would like to get some good sailing footage to improve my sailing technique, I paddle steer. Last year I tried an extension which put the camera about a meter behind and half a meter above the stern but I could not see my steering well enough. I have long thought that towing the camera a distance behind the boat would give some great footage. I would also like to do the same to self coach my dinghy training. I have searched and can't find anyone having done this. To the question, what is the best solution
This is the angle I get  ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
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Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 01 Apr 17 at 7:22pm
| I have seen one mounted on a body board, must have been weighted, wasn't bouncing about. |
Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 01 Apr 17 at 8:22pm
Thanks I like that, I have made a very rough mini IACC boat out of a bit of 2 x 3 with a 3 foot 'mast' it is bit cumbersome but floats the right way up. If that fails I will give the body board a go, one somewhere in the loft of the boat shed ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 01 Apr 17 at 8:41pm
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Buy a drone that follows you at a set distance and height. ------------- OK 2129 RS200 411 |
Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 06 Apr 17 at 2:47pm
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How about extending off the back end of the boom. The camera should get all the important bits in.
Top of mast looking down is a good angle too. |
Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 06 Apr 17 at 5:20pm
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This was a go-pro on a roughly 2M pole (top half of a broken carbon windsurfer mast) attached to the rudder space frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkCCrdzKmw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkCCrdzKmw ------------- Spice 346 "Flat Broke" Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish" |