[Public-list] Oxford Race

[Brian Palmer]

Bill,

I didn't give a lot of race detail, because I wasn’t there Saturday...
But unofficially and abbreviated; On the way down LinGin was under
reefed main alone topping out at 14.7 knots!  I wasn’t there on
Saturday, so no video to show the hairy moments when the tiller snapped
in front of a tug boat pulling a huge load of rock.  They put a tear in
the main about 1 foot long during the tiller incident, but it held
througout the weekend. The also broke the preventer on the main, and
ripped a batten pocket launching it like a javelin out into the bay.  I
came down as relief crew Saturday night, bringing my backup tiller for
the race home.

Sunday we started out wing and wing with the #2 jib and a reefed main,
and before the first mark, a seam ripped about 4 feet halfway  up in the
#2 jib.  We swtiched back to the #1 and brought the jib back inside and
taped it.  We flew it again after rounding the first mark and the tape
only last a few minutes, ripping a little further.  This forced us to
use the #1 for the rest of the day.  We were so overpowered, but not out
of control.  If we had to race any further off the wind, it would have
been too much I'd say.

The camera is a Hi8 camcorder, set in LP mode to get 3 hours of video. I
made a box out of 3/4" plywood and a lexan front made from a scrap when
I redid my windows.  It's assebmled with 5200 to keep it sealed.  The
back screws on with 20 screws and has some hatch gasket to keep the
water out.  It worked great!  I mounted the box on top of a heavy duty
tripod which was lashed to the back deck.  By using the tripod, I could
then change the aim of the camera quickly and easliy during the race to
get some variation.

This upcoming Sunday's race, I'll be doing it again, but hopefully with
a mast head cam, and a bow cam as well.

Towney is giving us the go-ahead to let us mount a camera on the bow of
his boat, pointing forward, so we can get good footage us up as well :)
(just kidding)

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: public-list-bounces at alberg30.org
[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Bill Blevins
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:20 AM
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Oxford Race


Stephen, Are you on OS X? I had to download the divx codec and after 
several attempts I got the right combination and could see the video. 
Pretty cool!

Brian, how did you mount that camera to be so stable? Was this 
Saturday's race or Sunday racing? How much wind?

No one has told the story of the actual A30 racing yet on this list.

My crew on Krugerrand ran down with a #3 jib and reefed main and saw 50+

knot gusts on Sat., broke a jib sheet, bent the spinnaker pole and broke

the mast ring holding the pole and saw 12 knots surfing to Oxford at 
some points of sail! Wild ride.

Bill Blevins
Sabrina #158

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sousa, stephen (ENG) wrote:

>Brian,
>
>I loaded the video this morning but was received audio with a mutli 
>color arrangement. Any ideas?
>
>Stephen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-list-bounces at alberg30.org 
>[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Brian Palmer
>Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:09 AM
>To: 'Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all'
>Subject: RE: [Public-list] Oxford Race
>
>
>I just re-uploaded the video, this time with music (Ride of the
>Valkeries) which seems very fitting.  If you have a fast connection and

>have already seen it, it's worth downloading again :)
>
>http://www.DigitalArsenal.com/lingin/oxford2.avi
>
>It's 30MB, so be patient!
>
>
>
>-Brian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-list-bounces at alberg30.org 
>[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Brian Palmer
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:41 PM
>To: 'Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all'
>Subject: RE: [Public-list] Oxford Race
>
>
>Here's the video from Sunday:
>
>http://www.DigitalArsenal.com/lingin/oxford2.avi
>
>It's 30MB in size (sorry dialup people).  If anyone is on dialup and 
>doesn't have a few hours to download it, let me know and I'll make a 
>lower quality and smaller file size version.  Also, if your media 
>player doesn't figure it out on it's own, you'll need the Divx codec to

>play this.  If it doesn't automatically get downloaded, go to Divx.com 
>and download the free version.
>
>-Brian
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lehman
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:35 AM
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>Subject: [Public-list] Oxford Race
>
>
>So how was the race - it was blowing like no tomorrow? Did everyone 
>survive?
>
>Are the boats ok?
>
>
>
>              Mike Lehman
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