Nice trip from Gothenburg to Skagen

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Again trying to inspire I just found this 5 min film clip I did a few years back. We decided to take off on a Friday after work in October 2006. The passage plan was Gothenburg to Skagen in Denmark, ruffly 45 nm approaching the sun setting. Skagen is a large fishing port and the most Northern part of Denmark, its where the North sea and the inner(ish) waters of Sweden and Denmark meet and create difficult waters with currents going all the way.
The trip started very nice and its my youngest child you see in the boat. When the going gets tuff she usually stays with me no matter what until she gets sleepy and go down below.
On the way back things heat up with a bit of unexpected wind and rain.
Whilst in Skagen we hire a set of bicycles and make our way to the Northern tip and of course find our way to a nice restaurant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yw9PZIGiIE

To get the geography right:

http://maps.google.se/maps?f=q&sour...727619,11.445007&spn=0.896041,2.28241&t=h&z=9
 
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Thanks guys!!

I found it good to watch, the music helps but I think its still a good to reminder of why we spend the effort we do on this.

I am actually very happy with our P34, I've personally skippered her for more the 10,000 nm now and all the kids seems to enjoy it (the older ones for a few days at a time). However they get very "sleepy" when the we clear the shore line.
I've not yet decided if they like it because they get to sleep more or less as much as they want or if its actually the boating life they like......

/Michael
 
A_8 said:
Thanks guys!!

I found it good to watch, the music helps but I think its still a good to reminder of why we spend the effort we do on this.

I am actually very happy with our P34, I've personally skippered her for more the 10,000 nm now and all the kids seems to enjoy it (the older ones for a few days at a time). However they get very "sleepy" when the we clear the shore line.
I've not yet decided if they like it because they get to sleep more or less as much as they want or if its actually the boating life they like......

/Michael
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Very nice video Michael...........

Some family members describe boating as 'forced relaxation'.....and it is worth all the effort...:)

Cheers
 
Brilliant video. It takes a lot of effort to put a video like that together. Short clips with music are the ones our kids enjoy to watch the most. In fact, the longer ones are rarely watched by any of us as they are usually too boring.
 
I pulled into Skagen nearly 20 years ago in a Flemming 55, the owner fell of the bathing platform just as we were mooring. Nice town, stinks of fish is my abiding memory.
 
Nice video Michael. Your children will remember there experiences that you have given them for the rest of there lives. I can still remember the smell of ''Bacon'' being cook when camping, and that was a long time ago.
I showed my wife your video and we were trying to think what Swedish boat you were on, ha,ha. It turned out to be French.

David
 
scubaman said:
Brilliant video. It takes a lot of effort to put a video like that together. Short clips with music are the ones our kids enjoy to watch the most. In fact, the longer ones are rarely watched by any of us as they are usually too boring.
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Yes, it is a hassle getting it together, I have used pinnacle studio that is not the most stable editing software.. which makes it worse then it has to be.

This year I got myself a new camera, a nice 24 mbps 1080p HD-Cam but it turned out I need to upgrade the computer as well as the software to handle the data density and format so if you have any recommendations on a good editing software I am all ears.

/Michael
 
David of Essex said:
Nice video Michael. Your children will remember there experiences that you have given them for the rest of there lives. I can still remember the smell of ''Bacon'' being cook when camping, and that was a long time ago.
I showed my wife your video and we were trying to think what Swedish boat you were on, ha,ha. It turned out to be French.

David
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Thanks and yes, agreed its a bit odd with Swedes in a French boat, I can tell you its even more odd in my local waters, it is really a Nimbus world, their HQ is 10 km from were we are.
We do however get quite a lot of positive attention from neighboring boats and others when we are out.
 
Kipper said:
Brilliant Video but do you feed that kid anything but yogurt.

Cheers
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I see what you mean, I did not notice that before. It is however true that she wants to eat all the time so on the boat we usually keep these easy to store, quick on the table, low fat, natural food things in the event that she gets hungry. We figure it is better then cookies and candy that easily becomes common on the boat.

R/Michael
 
A_8 said:
This year I got myself a new camera, a nice 24 mbps 1080p HD-Cam but it turned out I need to upgrade the computer as well as the software to handle the data density and format so if you have any recommendations on a good editing software I am all ears.

/Michael
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I've done some vids with Adobe Premiere Elements, but it's a pain with AVCHD and all the bugs in it, so I've given it up mostly.

I've used Ulead (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1175714228541#tabview=tab0) now and while as an editing software it's not quite as good as Premiere, it has couple of aces up it's sleeve: 1) it creates proxy files (low res temporary files) that are used for editing. This means that even your old computer may cope with editing. 2) it does 'smart rendering' ie. it only encodes those parts that you have edited leaving all other parts original. This makes encoding much faster and more importantly it retains the quality of your original shots.

So far it hasn't crashed too often either.
 
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