Twister_Ken
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Re ice on the flood - rather than real 'sea-ice' is it possible it was ice that had formed on exposed banks and flats, and that was lifted off and came upstream on the flood?
Good fillum!
Good fillum!
January Sailing
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dylanwinter
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Ice flows
I am sure you are dead right - the frozen tide came in at about 1am in the morning - so plenty of time for that ice to freeze on the mudflats
it was also very weird because when you shined a torch on it you could see the underlying tide moving much faster than the ice - it was a really loud noise that would suddenly stop for a minute ot two - creating the most profound silence I have ever experienced - then another flow would come past - the boat was reverberating - it was like being inside a drum
all round a wonderful experience - and thats the great thing about sailing - you can have been a sailor for four or more decades and suddenly it will throw something completely new at you
Dylan
I am sure you are dead right - the frozen tide came in at about 1am in the morning - so plenty of time for that ice to freeze on the mudflats
it was also very weird because when you shined a torch on it you could see the underlying tide moving much faster than the ice - it was a really loud noise that would suddenly stop for a minute ot two - creating the most profound silence I have ever experienced - then another flow would come past - the boat was reverberating - it was like being inside a drum
all round a wonderful experience - and thats the great thing about sailing - you can have been a sailor for four or more decades and suddenly it will throw something completely new at you
Dylan
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bikedaft
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brilliant vid, thanks. and for reminding us all what we should be doing too...
dunedin
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so envious - not managed to get car out of the drive let alone get to boat - and we live in outskirts of city ;-( visited by a JCB today so might make it to main road tomorrow, let see
Kelpie
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And another cracking wee sail today, in company with a friend's Wayfarer. Had to de-ice the Avon before I could go anywhere. Flask of Oxo, brisk breeze, full set of thermals and a flotation suit on top, all was good. Nice and sunny up here with plenty of snow cover on the hills to make the scenery even better.
Oh and I got a chance to try out my new reefing setup in anger, worked a treat.
happy sailing to everybody.
Oh and I got a chance to try out my new reefing setup in anger, worked a treat.
happy sailing to everybody.
bobgoode
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outstanding...had mer reaching for the thermals
Allan
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Great video, many thanks for posting it. It seems broadcast quality to me. Is there some way to classify quality?
Allan
dylanwinter
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video quality and the problems of sailing
well allan, you did ask
the usual measurement is the number of pixels -
std tv is 720 x 540 -
proper HD is 1080 lines x 1920
my hdv camera is 1080 x 1440
the sanyo waterproof camera is 720 x 1220
youtube hd is 720 x 1220 - so nominally better than a std TV
confused yet? I am.
and then you have the frame rate - some web video is 15 frames per second, film is 24 frames per second - UK tv is 25 frames - americal TV is 29.97 frames per second (crazy yanks)
for general sailing and all round toughness I think the Sanyo Xacti is a brilliant little device, tough, waterproof and runs forever on cheap sd cards and cheap batteries
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but then you have compression
there are scores of ways of compressing images
youtube compresses what comes off my editing system by 90 per cent
in other words it throws away nearly all the data my cameras collect
and sailing material is very tough to compress - birds, moving water, moving scenery, flapping sails - all much harder to compress than a newsreader talking to a camera where almost nothing moves in the background
and if you are still with me and have not yet lost the will to live.......
as a cameraman it is really frustrating filming good quality and then seeing it compressed to heck
so I will be setting up a website and making the vids available for download at full HDV quality - they do look great
I will try charging for $1 a time (because only 40 per cent of the viewers are from the UK - most are Americans
- but I will only be doing this for the proper keep turning left progs
two weeks later I will post these onto youube in their compressed format
Then we will see if people like them enough to make a micropayment for them
I priomise that any income from the vids will be squandered on video and sailing keep turning left related activities
- so far I have killed two cameras while out sailing
The financial controller and spreadsheet jockey in chief (Jill) is starting to get discombobulated about the impact my little project is having on our domestic finances
Dylan
well allan, you did ask
the usual measurement is the number of pixels -
std tv is 720 x 540 -
proper HD is 1080 lines x 1920
my hdv camera is 1080 x 1440
the sanyo waterproof camera is 720 x 1220
youtube hd is 720 x 1220 - so nominally better than a std TV
confused yet? I am.
and then you have the frame rate - some web video is 15 frames per second, film is 24 frames per second - UK tv is 25 frames - americal TV is 29.97 frames per second (crazy yanks)
for general sailing and all round toughness I think the Sanyo Xacti is a brilliant little device, tough, waterproof and runs forever on cheap sd cards and cheap batteries
-------------
but then you have compression
there are scores of ways of compressing images
youtube compresses what comes off my editing system by 90 per cent
in other words it throws away nearly all the data my cameras collect
and sailing material is very tough to compress - birds, moving water, moving scenery, flapping sails - all much harder to compress than a newsreader talking to a camera where almost nothing moves in the background
and if you are still with me and have not yet lost the will to live.......
as a cameraman it is really frustrating filming good quality and then seeing it compressed to heck
so I will be setting up a website and making the vids available for download at full HDV quality - they do look great
I will try charging for $1 a time (because only 40 per cent of the viewers are from the UK - most are Americans
- but I will only be doing this for the proper keep turning left progs
two weeks later I will post these onto youube in their compressed format
Then we will see if people like them enough to make a micropayment for them
I priomise that any income from the vids will be squandered on video and sailing keep turning left related activities
- so far I have killed two cameras while out sailing
The financial controller and spreadsheet jockey in chief (Jill) is starting to get discombobulated about the impact my little project is having on our domestic finances
Dylan
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Kelpie
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Dylan, please do accept my heartiest contrafibularities about the success of your videos and long may they continue. Since discovering your videos, and those of Nathan 'Kudu', I am starting to wonder whether I really need a TV any more!
Allan
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Dylan,many thanks for the explanation, I didn't doze off, honest! Good luck with the rest of your trip and the website.
Allan
Allan
