The Solent - April 13th - in a Sports Boat

[mlines]

One for those of us in the small, but faster, end of the boating fraternity.

 

[whisper]

Well Done

But what had you done to the waves? Was that really the sea?

Down in Devon last week and only had 1.5 boating days out of a possible 5. Wind steady F5-6-7, wave ht. 2-3m and breaking. Reminded me of last Summer.

 

[mlines]

But what had you done to the waves? Was that really the sea?

More to the point, was that really the Solent (spent a lot of time bouncing around the end of Southampton Water last year wondering why we bother!)

My son spotted a "weather window" on Friday and I had a spare days leave floating around so off we went!

 

[ARA]

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Friday 13th around Portsmouth & Sandown. Just like the Med apart from the 12C temps

 

[STEVEDUNSTABLE]

GREAT VIDEO martin !!!! wish it was that calm more often when im down there !!!!!!!..... please put yourselves forward to be the "resident forum weather forcasters" !!!!

 

[rbcoomer]

Wow - that IS calm! Great video too and I'm turning green as I type...

 

[aquapower]

Friday the 13th off Lowestoft

 

[ARA]

Friday the 13th off Lowestoft

Yeh we had weather like that in the Solent a few years back I think

 

[AndieMac]

Perfect filming very nicely put together indeed, was it on a Go-Pro? I could see a mount on the windscreen frame.

Just wished it went for longer ....thanks

 

[Quest]

Excellent Vid, loved it. Think I caught sight of Spottydog in there at one point in Cowes. Hoping for similar over the next couple of days out of Plymouth.

 

[SpottyDog5]

Great video, it was almost like we were on there with you (I wish) just reminds me that bigger is not always better, I do hanker back to the time I could hoon about with out the worry of weather the pictures would fall of the walls or her ladyships dressing table gets disturbed.
Proper fun boating, the reason most of us got into it.....
Thanks for including SpottyDog, made my day sat at home missing her

 

[SpottyDog5]

Excellent Vid, loved it. Think I caught sight of Spottydog in there at one point in Cowes. Hoping for similar over the next couple of days out of Plymouth.

Just looked at your profile, Merry Fisher 625, great boat, just what my previous post was all about.......

 

[Locki]

+1!

We're moving to the Solent next week, so this video is the first proper view ivevhad of ge cruising ground. Fantastic.

 

[ricky_s]

We were out Friday on the Solent in our small boat too.

We left Chichester marina and blasted out to Nab Tower with the kids. It was when we got there and tuned back I noticed all the storm clouds! Some lovely lightning over Portsmouth way.

Though it was cold I still managed to get a bit burnt!

 

[mlines]

Thanks for the positive comments.

My son spotted "Spottydog", he is forever recognising forum boats wherever we go.

I thought about a Go-Pro but everything seemed to be "extra", including a proper screen. They also seem more about "fix and forget", ie, taking a single wide angle shot rather than any attempt at composition.

I went for a Panasonic HX-WA2 which seems to fit my needs well. It produces nice pictures and HD video and is waterproof/robust enough to survive boating.

On the plus side it seems particularly good at cutting wind noise, the video was filmed mounted directly in the air flow above the windscreen yet it only shows real wind noise when turned across the wind.

The downsides are that "out of the box" it does not take pictures/videos to the quality I like, I had to spend some time fiddling with the controls to remove all the "auto this" and "auto that" facilities. Also the battery life seems less than I would like.

Here is the set-up...

 

[Warpa]

You just answered what i were going to ask about the camera and mounting bracket Hope to see the solent like that when i get the boat out this year, last year i took a right battering in our bowrider!