[Rhodes22-list] RE: Limix Video

[David Culp]

The Lumix is pretty amazing for the price.  It is stablilized, so you get
decent video sailing and I think my friend told me it will take up to a gig
memory card for a large video file-up to an hour at lower res.

David Culp


>John,

>I love both of my Panasonic Lumix s.

>Bill Effros

>>john Belanger wrote:
>> thank you david and david. do you really like that panasonic lumix?
>
> David Culp <dculp at hsbtx.us> wrote:  Ever wonder what you look like to
other boats sailing your Rhodes? This is
> a link to a .wmv file that a friend of mine made on my first sail of the
> Rhodes 22. He is a sailing instructor on Lake LBJ and owns
> sailingtexas.com. When I am around, I usually try and get out in my
> sailboat (now a Rhodes) and do a little sailing with he and his students.
> He likes to expose them to sailing in close proximity to other boats,
> right-of-way rules, how to control speed to stay with another boat, etc.
So
> we meet up and they end up harassing me most of the time-but all in good
> fun! The video was taken from a Flying Scot with a Portsmouth of about
> 89.0, so at 100 for the Rhodes we need not be embarrassed getting passed
or
> being forced too close to the wind. You can tell we didn't have a whole
lot
> of wind that day-probably 7 or 8 knots. I have all the sails out, the cars
> all the way forward in the tracks and she is sailing nicely on her lines.
>
> http://sailingtexas.com/Movies/Rhodes22c/srhodes22c2.html
>
> It is 14 MB big, so broadband is highly recommended.
>
> David
>