Some great filming of the IOW race

[Vern]

http://tinyurl.com/3fjqcmw

Contessa 26 did well!

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Brilliant !!

Love Jo Hutchinson's reference to the "old man" - a well known character in Lymington !!

 

[savageseadog]

There's a few more videos on the sponsor's site:

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/we...=std&override=&section=news&page=videolibrary

 

[dancingwithmoons]

not out there this year then nick ?

 

[benjenbav]

Nick put me in mind rather more of Chris Hoy than of Jeremy Rogers on Saturday afternoon when I saw him on his bike.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Hopefully lots more video's will be posted on youtube shortly.....what an incredible experience that must have been![green with envy smiley]

 

[Rustyknight]

My partner recently bought a video camera, and she took about 1/2 an hours worth looking out from Hurst castle. T'is nothing very special, as she's still learning the ropes with it.

However, I've had a play with a couple of the clips she took, and tried to get my head round the best way to process it and get it on-line.

If you think it's rubbish, tough.....

19 seconds of rubbish

1 minute 16 seconds of rubbish

 

[Twister_Ken]

Looks PDG to me, 'cept clip one suffers a bit from sloping sea syndrome. Congrats to better half.

 

[Rustyknight]

Ah.... sloping sea syndrome. If you think that's bad, you should see some of the other clips!

My partner set up the camera and tripod, and then completely failed to notice that one leg had sunk into the shingle. Some of the footage looks as though it was taken up Porlock Hill.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Rusty.......
Many thanks for putting the clips on.
I was surprised to see so many boats carrying full main. ??

 

[flaming]

I was surprised to see so many boats carrying full main. ??

If you've got racing sails, a bendy mast and a good mainsheet trimmer I would expect to have full main up as you can flatten it to such a degree to reduce drive to a minimum. We did, and were driving on it probably 70-80% of the time upwind, with just the biggest gusts forcing us to flog it. We were passing heavily reefed 40.7s, which are supposedly circa 7% faster, before hurst and they started 20 minutes before us...

A fuller, heavier, baggier, cruising sail is a different story though.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

If you've got racing sails, a bendy mast and a good mainsheet trimmer I would expect to have full main up as you can flatten it to such a degree to reduce drive to a minimum. We did, and were driving on it probably 70-80% of the time upwind, with just the biggest gusts forcing us to flog it. We were passing heavily reefed 40.7s, which are supposedly circa 7% faster, before hurst and they started 20 minutes before us...

A fuller, heavier, baggier, cruising sail is a different story though.

Thanks for that.... I come in the 'baggier cruising' brigade and you real racers have a lot to teach us about the benefits of modern gear I would think.
What is a mainsheet trimmer?

 

[Twister_Ken]

What is a mainsheet trimmer?

I think it cuts the end off the sheet, heat seals it and puts a whipping on. The better ones also nip down below and make a brew on downwind legs.

 

[flaming]

The better ones also nip down below and make a brew on downwind legs.

That would require having a kettle on board.

Mostly they pull the sail in slightly more, or slightly less, than someone else on the boat would do, then act extremely stubborn when the non flying telltales are pointed out. And flog the sail noticably more when they've decided it's working life is up and they're trying to hasten the purchase of a new one....

(Obviously this is behaviour I've noticed on other boats, our own trimmer is a genius.)

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

I think it cuts the end off the sheet, heat seals it and puts a whipping on. The better ones also nip down below and make a brew on downwind legs.

Mainsheet trimmer.....
And there was I thinking it might refer to Dominique Strauss Kahns barber.

 

[Rustyknight]

Rusty.......
Many thanks for putting the clips on.
I was surprised to see so many boats carrying full main. ??

No worries! I'm glad someone enjoyed them. I did think of combining the whole half hours worth and opening a Youtube account, but as this video lark is a bit new to me I think everyone would have forgotten about the race by the time I'd accomplished it......

I'll show my partner this thread this evening so she can bask in her 15 seconds of fame.

 

[TQA]

That shot of the Needles just reminded me why I don't like racing my boat. Mayhem!

Still it looked like fun if you were on an OPB.

 

[KREW2]

That would require having a kettle on board.

Wot! no kettle, as we approached St Catherines point I was putting the shepherds pie in the oven.

 

[Twister_Ken]

That would require having a kettle on board.

Wot! no kettle, as we approached St Catherines point I was putting the shepherds pie in the oven.

And after you rounded it, did you have to put it back in the oven!

 

[KREW2]

That would require having a kettle on board.



And after you rounded it, did you have to put it back in the oven!

Nope, we ate it, but I did skip on the peas, and it didn't take too long to clean the cockpit.