[Rhodes22-list] Drone video of Fretless

[Olivier Hecht]

In case anyone wants to see more, here’s the ~6 minutes of total footage I got of Fretless underway the other day.  There are more sections in here where the framing is terrible (or nonexistent) as I was struggling to see what the camera was seeing, but I did add some music!

You can also see the mini-drama of the recovery…

https://youtu.be/W-a673QdC0s

Olivier
s/v Fretless

> On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> 
> Glad to see Fretless out there enjoying herself and getting a workout. The video is great. Nice to see new aerial shots. The drone is a great toy... um... tool ;-)
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Mary Lou and Fred
> 
> 
> At 03:49 PM 7/3/2016, you wrote:
>> We had our second sail on Fretless yesterday
> a 
>> perfeect sailing day on the Rappahannock and we had the whole family including the dog this time
> everyone seemedd to enjoy it.  It was a 
>> tough start and finish to the day dealing with a broken trailer jack before we launched and a flat trailer tire when we retrieved her.  Fortunately, some improvisation with the car’s jack, wood blocking, and extra tools I had decided to bring at the last minute allowed us to still enjoy the day. I even managed to get the spinnaker (Doyle “UPS") up during a more calm period on the water, and it was really easy to deploy and worked very well.  I think we hit ~7 mph for a little while on a reach
> that was 
>> exxciting!  I also managed to get her “wing-on-wing” for a few minutes while running, although that was pretty hard to sustain! Here’s a quick video I was able to shoot from the drone (nice to have an aerial scouting vehicle on board to check weather or what’s around the next point of land, etc.)
> launching and retrrieving it from a moving 
>> sailboat crewed by novices was definitely exciting and a little nerve-racking, but we got it done.  The camera work is not great, either, since the video link to my phone was full of interference for some reason
> possibly the VHF 
>> traffic
> I hadhad to fly and frame the shots 
>> without really being able to see what the camera was pointing at
> https://youutu.be/PyG78xToiVM 
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