Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re: 18m Proa Update
From: Rob Denney
Date: 3/10/2012, 5:24 AM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
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harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au

 

Obvious solution.  Thanks.  Not only is Helena a better photographer, she is also nice enough to blur the bit of the shunt where I stuffed up and got a winch handle caught on one of the mast winches.  Bent it with ease, fortunately I was not holding it at the time, or I would be down to my last 5 fingers.  


The shunt was a slow one as we paused mid way to tension the jib halyard.  It all looks a bit busy with one person sheeting in the rig, one steering the old wheel, one the new wheel and having to push the jib car over.  Normally, the jib car would happen automatically, one person could handle the wheels and with a bit of steering practice, the rig swings around so only needs the last metre or so winched on.  

http://youtu.be/LE7jw-yjTmQ

And that vortex was fascinating!

rob

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM, heinrich_meurer <meurer@geotec-exploration.de> wrote:
 



Beautiful pics - all of them. And what a difference it makes which sex is behind the camera lense. Yours show a vortex from a rudder which could be overloaded and Helena shows people. And yes - in some of the GoPro pictures the Melbourne proa looks to be undercanvassed...and needing a recut of the main.

All three proas look very impressive.

You could perhaps upload the video as a sequence of videos to youtube and doesn´t Vimeo do very long videos?

Thanks a lot for the effort!

Heinrich


--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Rob Denney <harryproa@...> wrote:
>
> Helena Darvalid's photos are now in the 18m Melbourne Photos folder . The
> photos include some of Gaia's Dream (18m Pacific proa with some harry like
> features) and some of Rare Bird. A much better effort than mine. Thanks,
> Helena.
>
> There is also a video, but it is 110 MB which the Files section won't
> upload. Any suggestions?
>
> regards,
>
> rob
>


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