This month's expert on board videos

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This month\'s expert on board videos

Here are the videos to accompany the Feb 09 issue of Yachting Monthly. Here Tom Cunliffe explains the basics of prop walk:

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and the basics of controlling your yacht astern

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Here Tom Cunliffe explains the basics of prop walk:

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Or perhaps not!

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Alan Partridge does boat handling /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Andy
 
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Wow I just watched both simultaneously. Like, Wow, Man, far out!
 
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Well I learnt something from those......

With a accent like that.....He sure ain't Cornish meeeansum
 
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Wow I just watched both simultaneously. Like, Wow, Man, far out!

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One Tom at a time, I reckon. Two are one too many for me! Fun, though!
 
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I'm still a rookie and I'm still trying to get to grips with prop walk. But I could do all that kind of stuff from day one in open water. It's easy; you just go ahead and astern and pull the tiller hither and thither. I want to see how prop walk can help me get a 26' Centaur on and off a 24 foot pontoon finger with about three boat lengths across to the next pontoon.
 
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OK! What am I doing wrong? I've reinstalled Quicktime but all I see of the movies is a Quicktime icon with a question mark through it /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

(Win XP, IE7)
 
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They aren't quicktime movies - they are Adobe Flashplayer format. If your PC is trying to run quicktime you have the wrong association for .swf files, so the wrong program/addin is launching. Download and install the latest version of Flashplayer from adobe.com and that should sort you out.
 
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You'd think they would invest in a lapel microphone to sort out the crummy sound.

Apart from that they are really amateurish, about what you'd expect I suppose!
As instructional videos they are really poor. Perhaps the accompanying text in YBW would support them.

Without exception everyone I know calls it prop walk, they go and title the first video prop kick.
 
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Without exception everyone I know calls it prop walk, they go and title the first video prop kick.

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True - but I also say 'The boat kicks to port' not 'She walks to port'.
So they most likely got things mixed up.

Not surprised really - a few years ago there was an advert on here to work for IPC as an editor. In the ad was something along the lines of 'You don't need to know anything about boats, but it would help'.
 
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Sorted now. Thanks to you and Captain Scarlet. I'd agree with others that these are hardly the most professional of videos; they don't encourage me to go and get YM to see the text.
 
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Thanks for all the positive comments /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

First off the vids are extra to the article in Yachting Monthly, moving images to accompany Tom's written words and my photographs. The article doesn't need the video, and stand up on it's own without the vid.

Yes we would like a lapel mic, the sound quality is poor we know that (but it still understandable), the camera we use at the moment doesn't have a "mic in", and until this camera dies we won't be getting another one, most of the time we add a sound track over it so sound isn't usually important.

This was our first attempt at doing this sort of video, judging by it's reception, there seems little point in upgrading our equipment because no one on here found it any benefit. They were made to show the basics, while these are known to a lot of people (espesh the inhabitants of this forum) they aren't know to all.

Could you say that everyone you go sailing with knows about prop walk?

Could you say that every boat owner you see knows about prop walk?

We're not a video production company, we're magazine publishers. I do the best with the equipment I have available to me. I trained in stills photography not videography. We don't charge for the YM plus elements online (or this forum), they are free, you don't have to buy the magazine to view them. Some could say you get what you pay for, but I think the extras on here are huge benefit, moving images show a boat in a way that my stills cannot, we're also able to add more stills than we could fit into a magazine in our gallery section.

I did the credits/captions and put the video together, the "Prop Kick" was my doing, it was the way I was taught, because it's the way the prop kicks the stern in one direction or the other when power is applied.


Hope that explains things a little more
 
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I agree with Ken - I think you were too close to Tom to give an overall impression of what was happening. All we could see was him moving the tiller and engine control.

Don't feel hurt by all the negative comments! I think there is a lot of merit in producing some very simple, basic training videos - just need a bit more practice /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Hi Ken,

Yep, agreed, you can see me trying to get the background in, in places /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The problem I had was being close enough to Tom to get his voice and far enough away to get him the background and what he was doing to the tiller/throttle. A wider angle lens would have helped, as would another camera (something we'll sort out for the next one by borrowing MBM's hopefully) unfortunately I can't take stills and video at the same time, and the first boat, the Centaur, was running over time wise and we had to get back for our rendezvous with you.
 
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A wider angle lens would have helped, as would another camera

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Or a remote microphone on Tom's jacket?
 
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