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Ok everyone.. the mythical 2007 Stede Bonnet video that I have been talking about is finally done. After 20+ man hours of editing, weird technical difficulties etc… it is finally here. So enjoy. For those of you that were there if you want the large high quality version let me know and I will get you a cd or dvd with it on it. That version is a little big to stream from the web.
Update.. later the same day… ok I really didn’t like the small version of the film.. to much detail and quality was lost and it was still 26 megs in size.. given that only people with broadband are going to be able to see it anyway I’m bumping the quality up significantly. It is now 640×480 and 30 frames a second and 68 megs in size.. much much better. If you have a dial up connection and want to see this then you should probably just click the download link before going to bed and watch it on your computer in the morning. With middle of the road DSL it streams very well for me. So anyone with a decent cable modem or DSL connection should be able to view it fine.
Well it’s mid December so it should be winter.. but with average temps in the 70’s it has been feeling like very nice spring/fall weather. I just couldn’t resist the invitation to go sailing on Valkyr. Not a lot of wind today but enough for a steady 3.5 to 4.5 knots of boat speed. The ocean was almost flat with just a few ripples from a stronger gust or two. We just set the sails and balanced her out and didn’t really even have to touch the helm for long periods of time. We lazed around on deck with the warm sun on our faces. The perfect day with just a bare hint of cool in the air with enough sun to warm us while we watched the dolphins jump out of the ocean under a clear blue sky.
We had a great day sailing back on Sunday. Broad to beam reach with winds 15 gusting to 20.. Valkyr was moving like a freight train.. nothing could stop her. Jerry on his Catalina 36 was having to work just to keep in sight of us. We gradually pulled away from them over the course of the day.
A pirate boat isn’t a pirate boat with out its own pirate flag.
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Independence at the beginning of day lead us out the shortcut on the south side of the capefear inlet.101206
Well the sad truth is that I didn’t take a single solitary picture out on the water during the race. 🙁 however here a few from before and after the race.
Angela talking to Jerry and his crew of pirates on Independence his catalina 36
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Miriam the pirate babe on the dock.
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Miriam and Dave
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the dread pirates Carle and Simms in a standoff.
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Pirate Captn. Batchelder.
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Friday I went up the ICW with Angela, Zsanic and Sailor the cat, on Valkyr. First thing before leaving the dock we had issues with the engine not pumping raw water again. It was looking like we were not going to go for a bit, but Richard came over and saved the day. He found that the anti-siphon valve on the raw water cooling side of the engine was no good. So we bypassed that quickly and were ready to go. We still left the dock in time to make the 10 o’clock opening of the Sunset Beach bridge.
It was a rainy overcast day with us all bundled up in foul weather gear the whole way.
I hope you enjoy the video. I had fun putting it together from some old video I had taken one day while out sailing beside Valkyr and some I just recently took while crewing on Valkyr.
You can download and play a full size version of this video by clicking on the download link
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Video of Valkyr a Downeaster 38
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Steve called me and said he was taking a class out kayaking Sunday and did I want to go. I don’t think I have been kayaking in maybe years, and not much in the year and a half prior to that. I have spent all my time and energy sailing and working on my boats for the last few years. We went out on the Waccamaw River at Peachtree Landing.
I had a great time. I think I am going to find a roof rack for the new honda civic so that I can take a kayak on it when I want to go.
Anyway I took the old canon digital camera with me and took a bunch of pictures. Here are a few.. It was a beautiful day for being on the river.
We went out Saturday and raced. What a gorgeous day. We came in second on the first race and won the second race. There weren’t many of us out there but it was some tight racing. It was challenging on the starting line with some close maneuvering for advantage and rounding the pins/buoys during the race seemed to see us neck and neck there. The first race we were about 3 feet behind LC Marie come in across the finish line.
I got some pictures of LC Marie during the second race when she got frisky with a pin and it decided to go with her 🙂
I had the opportunity to work with a friend on his boat yesterday and I took the inline scale and a tachometer with me to test the performance of the engine in a static thrust test. We also did this with both the stock 8 pitch prop and a 6 pitch prop.
The tachometer is a Sendec unit good to 7000 rpm in 10 rpm increments.
The scale is a 3000 lb loadcell scale accurate to the nearest 1 lb increment.
I have been wanting to do this for a while as I have the same engine only marketed under the tohatsu brand and it has run weak since I got it. I had assumed that there were problems with my engine but based on the test results I think that there is a much larger issue.
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Went out on Pirate Girl today and sailed around for a bit. Wind was light and started dieing though so we ended up coming in early.. still it was a nice day on the water. Saw Runaway out on the water and Lee on his boat also
Patty Steering
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Jeff Being lazy 🙂
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Me steering on the way back in.
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I went out this past saturday and raced on la Bon Vie againn. This time the wind was pretty light and the smaller boats were able to keep up. 🙂 But it was a fun day sailing. We were supposed to have a hurricane coming ashore the next day but it ended up turning north and we had beautifull blue skies with light winds.
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I got to go sailing with Capt’n O on La BonVie his Beneteau Oceanus 39 in the race last week. It was a very good day sailing.
Flat seas with 8 to 12 knots of wind we moved right along. 1st in the first race and 2nd in the second race.
Breck on Runnaway had a great day.. he came in second and then first in the first and second races respectively. Cleaning the bottom on his boat and getting the new fully battened main really have made a difference in his boats speed and pointing ability.
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