Sailboat video from quad-copter
Sep 10, 2015 13:43:25 #
Sun and moon aligned to let me get some shots of my boat on Resurrection Bay, Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41Hn4gLFP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41Hn4gLFP0
Sep 10, 2015 14:45:47 #
Sep 10, 2015 14:58:10 #
A gorgeous vessel! A beautiful day on the Bay. Can life get any better than that?
Sep 10, 2015 14:58:10 #
Sep 10, 2015 15:17:48 #
Do you stream LIVE Video from the Drone while airborne?
Just curious how you maintain the vessel in frame!
Thanks!
Just curious how you maintain the vessel in frame!
Thanks!
Sep 10, 2015 15:44:38 #
Dan821 wrote:
Do you stream LIVE Video from the Drone while airborne?
Just curious how you maintain the vessel in frame!
Thanks!
Just curious how you maintain the vessel in frame!
Thanks!
No mine doesn't have the Wi-Fi video feed. I keep the boat in frame with blind luck. :) That two minute video came from about 15 minutes of footage in which most of the time I was too close cutting off either the masthead or hull.
Sep 11, 2015 10:32:44 #
Nice shots, and it looks like you had a perfect day, enough wind to keep the sails filled with no chop.
Just for my curiosity, how long a sailing season do you get up there from launch to haul out?
Just for my curiosity, how long a sailing season do you get up there from launch to haul out?
Sep 11, 2015 10:55:40 #
dfalk wrote:
Sun and moon aligned to let me get some shots of my boat on Resurrection Bay, Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41Hn4gLFP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41Hn4gLFP0
Nicely done! Around here; Long Island, NY, there are a lot to of sailboats but not one of them has a colorful sail like yours. Makes photographing them boring.
What is the windmill for? Powering a small electric motor?
Sep 11, 2015 11:13:15 #
Indi wrote:
What is the windmill for? Powering a small electric motor?
What is the windmill for? Powering a small electric motor?
It is a wind generator for charging the battery banks.
Sep 11, 2015 11:15:36 #
JCam wrote:
Nice shots, and it looks like you had a perfect day, enough wind to keep the sails filled with no chop.
Just for my curiosity, how long a sailing season do you get up there from launch to haul out?
Just for my curiosity, how long a sailing season do you get up there from launch to haul out?
It was a great day for a photo op with the spinnaker winds 5-10. Our normal wind is 15-18 with 3' seas .a bit much for the quad to handle.
For me the season is early May until around Labor Day.
Is that your boat in the avatar? What is she?
Sep 11, 2015 11:32:27 #
dfalk wrote:
It was a great day for a photo op with the spinnaker
winds 5-10. Our normal wind is 15-18 with 3' seas
.a bit much for the quad to handle.
For me the season is early May until around Labor Day.
Is that your boat in the avatar? What is she?
For me the season is early May until around Labor Day.
Is that your boat in the avatar? What is she?
It is our boat, she's an Island Packet 32, and like yours is designed for deep water cruising; we've had her for ten years, and I've come to love the cutter rig. It gives me a lot of sail plan options, and the sails are smaller & not as heavy:thumbup: & as they would be with a standard sloop rig.
I'm surprised you can launch so early; that's about what our schedule was in Mass. Here on the mid Chesapeake Bay, I generally try to launch in late April although the last couple of cold & wet Spring weather has delayed it, and we don't haul until late November--so the yard doesn't bury it--but don't use it much after October.
Hope you had a good season!
Jim
Sep 11, 2015 12:59:22 #
Sometimes May requires a bit of hardiness. This photo was taken May 4th or 5th, 2010, the snow is just above the tide line along the shore. There were about 10 boats anchored in the cove that weekend.
http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/i-tj3Ld6z/0/L/i-tj3Ld6z-L.jpg
http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/i-tj3Ld6z/0/L/i-tj3Ld6z-L.jpg
Sep 11, 2015 14:26:27 #
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