[Rhodes22-list] Drone video of Fretless

[Olivier Hecht]

They might float for a few seconds before sinking but would be ruined by contact with water. There is a company that uses a "nano coating" to waterproof drones, but mine doesn't have that :(

It's not something I'd do regularly or casually but I had to try it. The drone gets boring quickly without interesting subject matter and this was too good to pass up. In the future, I'd probably launch and retrieve from anchor or while drifting with the sails furled...that should be very easy and the drone has a 20-25 minute flight time so there would be plenty of time to get the sails back out and get some nice shots. 

> On Jul 6, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
> Oliver:
> This is an amazing video. So nice to see a Rhodes from the air under sail. But my big question is this:do drones float? If not I truly admire your courage.
> Graham
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> 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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