At last, I got the photograph

[HinewaisMan]

One of the great problems of owning a boat is that you get squillions of pics taken from on board, but so few of the big girl under sail.

Have shots with the cruising chute and mizzen staysail up – from the inside. Up till now, no shots of both sails up from outside.

At last, this weekend I managed to take the missing pic while I was trying to remember where on earth all the bits of string, blocks, shackles etc etc go to fly both sails together.

OK, so we were still tied up, I know I should have taken another foot or two out of the staysail halyard and it was using the point and click into the sun, but hey, that’s what’s photoshop is for.

Seven flipping years that photograph has taken!

 

[sailorman]

http://www.yourboatpix.co.uk/browse3.php

 

[HinewaisMan]

http://www.yourboatpix.co.uk/browse3.php

Thank you Sir - what a great site! None of us yet though!

 

[sailorman]

Thank you Sir - what a great site! None of us yet though!

The last 6 on there are those i took & posted
My avatar was also from there a kindly yachtsman & i exchanged our photos

 

[SimonP85]

It would be great if more people started using Your Boat Pix. I will make more of an effort this season to snap and upload pictures.

 

[sailorman]

It would be great if more people started using Your Boat Pix. I will make more of an effort this season to snap and upload pictures.

Action one pls who wants a photo motoring with fenders deployed

 

[LittleSister]

A friend was keen to get some shots of his boat under all sail in a nice wind, so we dropped off his younger sister, armed with camera, in a dinghy tied to a buoy in the middle of a big river somewhere. Poor girl was left there bouncing about for around an hour while we made increasingly daring close passes at a rate of knots, shouting good natured abuse and threatening to leave her there.

She may have been permanently mentally scarred by the experience, but that's what art is about isn't it? And the impressive large prints now displayed at his house of the boat bearing down on the camera, a bone in its teeth (and featuring your correspondent at the helm), surely make it all worthwhile?

 

[johnalison]

, but hey, that’s what’s photoshop is for.]

No, Photoshop is for putting your boat into a blue sea with a palm-covered island in the background. Shouldn't take you long.

 

[HinewaisMan]

A friend was keen to get some shots of his boat under all sail in a nice wind, so we dropped off his younger sister, armed with camera, in a dinghy tied to a buoy in the middle of a big river somewhere. Poor girl was left there bouncing about for around an hour while we made increasingly daring close passes at a rate of knots, shouting good natured abuse and threatening to leave her there.

She may have been permanently mentally scarred by the experience, but that's what art is about isn't it? And the impressive large prints now displayed at his house of the boat bearing down on the camera, a bone in its teeth (and featuring your correspondent at the helm), surely make it all worthwhile?

That reminds me of many many years ago when I was still in my teens, I got roped into a trip from Fowey to Cherbourg to the Scilly's and back on this beautiful green ketch that had been chartered out of Fowey.

The Skipper, my boss at work, wanted a shot of the boat, kite flying, with the Wolf Rock Lighthouse as the background. So I got thrown in the dinghy with a range of cameras.

Sadly, there was no wind so they stuck the kite up and started going astern. I got some great shots.....

..... and then the wind picked up.

I remember it seemed to be an awful long time before they finally got back to pick me up.

 

[sailorman]

No, Photoshop is for putting your boat into a blue sea with a palm-covered island in the background. Shouldn't take you long.

That rummy chap has that down to a fine art

 

[DownWest]

No, Photoshop is for putting your boat into a blue sea with a palm-covered island in the background. Shouldn't take you long.

Also, so you can reduce your excess paunch and add the dusky maidens, so your friends might believe your stories......

 

[BrianH]

A friend was keen to get some shots of his boat under all sail in a nice wind, so we dropped off his younger sister, armed with camera, in a dinghy tied to a buoy in the middle of a big river somewhere. Poor girl was left there bouncing about for around an hour while we made increasingly daring close passes at a rate of knots, shouting good natured abuse and threatening to leave her there.
She may have been permanently mentally scarred by the experience, but that's what art is about isn't it? And the impressive large prints now displayed at his house of the boat bearing down on the camera, a bone in its teeth (and featuring your correspondent at the helm), surely make it all worthwhile?

A very,very, long time ago I did this with the then girlfriend in the middle of the Adriatic - smooth sea but enough wind to sail quite well, she jumped into the inflatable with her SLR and off I sailed, single-handed. Trouble was, as normal, we had both been 'au natural' and an Austrian yacht, full of macho hearties, came sailing up out of nowhere to pass close - too close for her cowering down trying to cover up against the whistles and shouts from the well-tanked crew. I was on short rations for a full day for leaving her abandoned following that incident.