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Calendar Events / Re: National Championships - Dale Yacht Club - 5-8 July 2024

« Last post by JP233 on July 11, 2024, 01:20:48 PM »

Well done Andy and Jill for winning the X'th National Championship!

Its really encouraging to see the fleet as a whole grow (we got 12 boats this year) and improve (we had many races where the top 6 were together all the way around the course
So thank you and thank you to Dale YC for hosting the event, It's definitely a place I'd love to go back to (just with some water)

Results below

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Calendar Events / Re: National Championships - Dale Yacht Club - 5-8 July 2024

« Last post by JP233 on June 30, 2024, 08:45:50 PM »

Updated ^^

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Sailing Stories / Re: Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by Phil Alderson on June 29, 2024, 10:28:07 AM »

Trying out a top down view of sailing.

https://youtu.be/ZugVVYwIxk4?si=UJS1t5e5uBLlg1tq

It mostly works but I think I may need to mount it a bit higher so that it is possible to see the kite and a bit more  when on the other tack.

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Sailing Stories / Re: Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by Phil Alderson on June 27, 2024, 07:58:14 PM »

This is one of the brackets I have made up. Where do you think it is used?

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Calendar Events / Re: National Championships - Dale Yacht Club - 5-8 July 2024

« Last post by OliverM on June 13, 2024, 05:56:56 PM »

Useful crib sheet provided by the YC.

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Calendar Events / Re: National Championships - Dale Yacht Club - 5-8 July 2024

« Last post by JP233 on June 03, 2024, 11:56:01 AM »

Social calendar:
Friday the 5th - Day 1 - post sail pizza (unsure if before or during AGM) - AGM - Aiming for 1900 start
Location: the town hall

Saturday the 6th - Day 2 - curry from ’The Boat House (poll taken on group WhatsApp - please ask for access if you require it) - time to be set by the club

Sunday the 7th - Day 3 - subject to weather a walk up the the forts/airfield/pub maybe beach games
Monday the 8th - Day 4 - Prize giving - location and time TBC - Pack up and go home

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Sailing Stories / Re: Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by dave_ching on June 01, 2024, 07:35:58 PM »

There was a good camera mount idea at the show this year the pin for the Rudder was large enough to attach a stick to.
The benefit was that the pin didn't move unlike a boom mount.

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Sailing Stories / Re: Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by dave_ching on June 01, 2024, 07:34:06 PM »

We had a great sail out of the harbour in some interesting conditions, if only we had remembered to start the camera.
Small steps.
Camera charged tick
Camera mount fitted tick
Camera attached tick
Switche on doh.


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Sailing Stories / Re: Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by dave_ching on June 01, 2024, 07:31:14 PM »

We are working on getting a drop box for the class to put roughly chopped footage in and then we can edit down.


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Sailing Stories / Videos of Cherub Sailing

« Last post by Phil Alderson on May 20, 2024, 09:56:43 PM »

There has been some chat about getting more videos of Cherubs sailing. I have been taking a camera out for most of the sails this year, and am working on different ideas in the editing but think there is a lot to learn. Was thinking it would be good to have a thread here to share tips on how to get better video.

The most recent one is from a few weeks back, trying out a new camera mount on the boom. I have some video of me making the mount but not sure if I can edit it down to something interesting.

https://youtu.be/G4-_cFsmFLM