Archive for December, 2006
More Good Footage
by Jake on Dec.20, 2006, under Miscellaneous
Our English brethren bring us this video (it’s about a year old but it’s a goodie!). Does it top the Canadian video below? You decide.
Good Footage
by Jake on Dec.18, 2006, under Miscellaneous
From the crazy canucks up north – a terrific F18 video. Gives you a good shot at why we’re fanatic about what we do!
Pitchpole memory
by Jake on Dec.18, 2006, under Miscellaneous
Having recently put up the video from Steeplechase, and nearly shutting down my server with over 200Gb of downloads, I started investigating other video hosting solutions. I uploaded this oldie-but-a-goodie from this year’s Alter Cup where Ollie and Kelly Jason pitchpolled a Nacra 20 catamaran going for a pass at the A-mark. I used Dailymotion.com for this video and will probably try one at the infamous You-Tube later.
What’s Next?
by Jake on Dec.18, 2006, under Racing!
New Year’s Weekend – Lake Murray Sailing Club…the “Lap of Lake Murray”. I’m sailing with Trey of Velocity Sailing to try and better our record last year we set using the Team Seacats F18 for the Lap of Lake Murray. We sailed the 20.4 mile course #3 in a few ticks over two hours even with several areas that were shadowed with very little wind. Trey is bringing out the Team Velocity Nacra 20 this year. If we can get some breeze this one should be easy to topple.
Originally uploaded by Team Seacats.
The Draw Bridge Video
by Jake on Dec.12, 2006, under Racing!
FINALLY! I got the draw bridge video off my corrupted PC and got it up on the site. This is a rather large 180Mb download but it’s a pretty neat 8.5 minute video of the boats trying to make it through the draw bridge and the healthy current to get to the start line of the Steeplechase. Download by right clicking the image below and choosing “save as”. Then play it once it’s downloaded. Thanks to Robin and Wendy for taking the video!
EDIT: Sorry folks…the size and the number of downloads of this video has overwhelmed my server hosting account. Over 180Gb of this video has been downloaded and I had to remove the link to avoid having things frozen for the rest of the month. I’ll upload it to a video host somewhere to avoid this soon.
EDIT 2: finally got it uploaded to dailymotion.com….it appears a little jerky to me though…darnit. For those who don’t know us, our Team Seacats Nacra 20 is the one with the blue hulls. Chris and David are on one of the white Nacra 20′s but can be identified by their sail graphics (the top still has the Team Seacats cat-head on it and the SailMax.biz logo).
