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Thanks Scott. A mighty fine day all round and nice to know that turning 70 didn’t cause anything to fall off (nautical term)
Thank you Scott for stepping in to the very big shoes of your normal reporter Sinker in his hour of need. Seems to be stretching out this “Man Flu” for all it’s worth. Just so long as it’s not Covid !!
Thank you for your somewhat accurate report on today’s proceedings Mr Kermit.
Never one to let a mishap/mistake/accident go unheralded eh?
I did manage a few minutes of video, why it changed to photo mode mid sail I have no idea but I have now locked the setting screen for the future just in case.
I have another video in edit mode so it will be up a bit later.
A bit of today’s video from the Insta360 One X2 camera, firstly onboard my A Class “Kristy-Lee” then on the selfie stick to see what it can do.
Just found this, thought it may be of interest to some, especially those involved in the “Phantom Brick Incident”
After several successful outings with the supplied “B” sails it was time to try with an “A” set.
I had a couple of spare IOM “A” sail sets and a spare mast and boom so only needed the appropriate fittings to put it all together.
The parts order from the Radio Sailing Shop took over 2 weeks to arrive even though Andrew posted it the day after receiving the order (what is Aust Post delivery time going to be like once the Christmas rush starts?)
Anyway it arrived earlier this week and after a bit of messing around an “A” sail set has been duly assembled & fitted, ready for testing tomorrow (Saturday 8th) if the weather is acceptable.
And to top it all off Bro straightened your motor shaft while you were away gallivanting around Europe with Le Frog.
Nice to know you made it home ok.
With the forecast weather I don’t think we will be flying this week but hopefully it will all improve soon.
It took around 75 minutes to upload but I did it last night & processing was all done this morning so not sure how long.
Just trying out the SplitScreen functionality of the Insta 360 ONE X2 camera. Something a little different.
At least with only using one camera to record synchronising the video feeds is far far easier than with multiple cameras.
This is only done in 1920 x 1080 but works just the same in 4K but takes forever to load onto the YouTube platform even with a 100mbs Direct Fibre connection.
It is interesting that you focus mainly on LiFe batteries. In my opinion they are the worst value for money out there. Yes they are light but that is about the only good point they have.
In a yacht a good set of AA or AAA NiMh batteries formed into a 4 cell (4.8V) or 5 cell (6.0V) will generally set you back far less and as long as you look after them they will last a good 5 years or more.
I recently had to replace 1 cell in a 5 cell AA pack (that I use primarily in my larger yachts) that was made with cheap HobbyKing NiMh cells way back in September 2012.
Most transmitters (but not all) will take 4 (or sometimes 8) individual AA batteries and 4 x AA NiMh fit this bill also. Yes they only produce 4.8V and not 6.0V but they will still keep your transmitter running for many days of sailing.
