Here's a little bit of footage from yesterday down at Woodies of Chris Lockwood sailing south side http://exposureroom.com/members/helifotos/f385abefc049419e94343729f87c8118/

Great view, thanks for posting birdy

I think it's amazing you can fly a helicopter, and film, and play the drums all at the same time.

Cool video Col, love the way Slowie jumps without appearing to slow down forward progress

nice work Col
loved the pics!
especially the 3rd one that shows the fungus growing on the tail of the board!!

nebbian said...

The editor is a tease.

All I want to see is Chris's magic gybe, so there it is, oversheet, lay down, drag the clew in the water slightly, push through it, sail goes to the outside of the gybe...

...and CUT????????

Damn. I wanna see more!

I must admit I thought the same.... kept watching until the last second waiting to see the spray, the rig flip and the beautiful planing exit

Nebs, end of the gybe isn't there because its not wise to put the tail rotor into the wind which we would have had to do to film the gybe - going the other way was possible but we left before the gybe. Is that O.K. We'll do a gybe sequence next time, just have to find someone who can!

dont worry you missed nothing. It was a crap gybe- there was a lull when I went in and I stalled. When Col went to video mode for my last run the wind had switched off. I was quite underpowered on the video run back in (port tack). Going out (starboard tack) was OK at first but not really powered up. There was more wind when he was taking stills. My eyesight wasnt good enough to know what he had the camera set to at the time :) I didnt know he was doing video... Thanks for risking your lens Col! They have been known to spontaneously crack when exposed to my face.

tonyd said...

He's going so fast in the pics that he blew the CA sticker off the board.

you can tell it wasn't as windy in the video cause the sticker is still there lol.

ah the magic of photoshop

Nebs, tell me if this video of Jesper gybing is of any help to you its a timelapse, whipped up for you this morning.

Magic of "content aware".

birdseyeview said...

Nebs, tell me if this video of Jesper gybing is of any help to you

Vairy vairy nice... That'll keep me going for a good week or so