On Saturday I went sailing with a couple friends.
Once again, everything about the weather was great except the wind. Wind speeds were forecast to be “10-15 knots growing to 15-20 knots later in the afternoon”….NOT.
For most of the sail the winds were in the 3 – 6 knots range.
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| Not much wind to keep the sails full |
We called it a day a bit earlier than we would have had there been some wind.
On Sunday I went sailing with my brother.
Winds were much better and we had a great day sailing.
I brought my new ‘Kite Cam” bracket and was able to get the kite cam to stay aloft for several minutes before there was a lull in the wind that caused the kite cam to take a nose dive into the lake.
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| Kite Cam Up |
Unfortunately, the angle of the bracket was such that most of the video taken was of the water behind the boat. I was able to salvage several frame grabs from the video to illustrate how high the kite cam got up into the air.
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| Kite Cam Frame Grab |
We also anchored for a short while to see how easy or hard it is to climb back onto the boat from the water. It would be ok in an emergency, but it required a bit more upper body strength than would be comfortable for most people. We have to come up with another solution before we can start swimming off the boat.
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| Climbing out of the water |