360 degree video

Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
This spring I bought a cheap ($200) 360 video camera. I'm still figuring out how it works and how to get the videos on-line. Here is the first one, from our VERY FIRST race spinnaker set, gybe, and douse of the year in our season-opening practice race. All else being equal it went OK. Plus Jodi is trimming main now, so that's an awesome add.

If you watch on a mobile device you can pan and tip your phone to move the field of view. Otherwise use the arrow keys or mouse.
Good times!

 
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Brian D

Brian D

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Feb 17, 2006
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Lancer 27PS MCB Camp Pendleton KF6BL
Now that is cool. You can tilt up and look at the top of the mast. Tilt down and see the shark following. Swing it around. Nice. And someone needs to pull their britches up.
 
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John Nantz

John Nantz

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Jul 1, 1998
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Hunter Legend 35 Poulsbo/Semiahmoo WA
Really neat video. Tried to figure out where the cam mounted, on the port pushpit rail?
The view I was looking at was facing aft so question: can one use the arrows on a laptop to rotate the view so it is facing forward? Or is the view aft a default cam setting? I only played with the arrows just a little bit and it didn't really seem to do that much.
There were several interesting things:
A brown colored something in the water between the two rudders (or is that one rudder showing up twice?)
Watching other boats tacking below your stern.
Really like how your boat was moving through the water even though the wind was obviously light!
 
marke14

marke14

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Aug 12, 2014
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Universal Marine Montego 25 San Pedro, CA
:yikes: That is SO COOL! :clap: I hope everyone who reads this thread has watched and interacted with the video. Amazing stuff! On a Windows computer you can click-and-drag to look around, as well as using the arrows and on-screen controls.

I don't love making videos but I might go in for one of these. I've heard of 360 video cameras and I've seen some 360 stuff but yours is the first one I've actually watched and played around with.
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
It's mounted on the port pushpit. Depending on your device, you can pan by turning the device or using scroll keys. If your browser doesn't not show it correctly, you can load in YouTube here.


We were moving pretty well with the kite. At that wind speed (5 knots) we move at the speed of the wind when reaching.

It fun to look at sail trim. Always one guy looking at underwear.
 
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Davidasailor26

Davidasailor26

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May 17, 2004
6,147
Beneteau Oceanis 37 Havre de Grace
Very cool. I have a Google Cardboard style VR headset for my phone. It was almost like being there.

But what is that brown thing between the rudders before the gybe?
 
agprice22

agprice22

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Aug 3, 2012
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Performance Cruising Telstar 28 302 Watkins Glen
I suspect the brown thing between the rudders is a super-secret planing device which deploys from under the transom. You can see Jackdaw press a button on the stbd cockpit combing, and then it disappears!
 
agprice22

agprice22

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Aug 3, 2012
2,542
Performance Cruising Telstar 28 302 Watkins Glen
Actually, I would guess it is a reflection on the lens. I cannot figure out why though.
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
It's clearly some video artifact. Not sure why. It's not the world best camera. And I still have some YouTube tuning to go; the video looks much better in the local player program on my PC.

We need another 15 knots before I can press the 'planing button'! :)
 
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SFS

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Aug 18, 2015
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Currently Boatless Okinawa
Very cool Jackdaw. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I have a question. At about the 1:40 mark, the woman in the bluish cap (Jodi perhaps) wraps a line on what I assume is the port cabin top winch. It looks to me like she wrapped the line counter-clockwise. What's up with that?
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
SFS said:
Very cool Jackdaw. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I have a question. At about the 1:40 mark, the woman in the bluish cap (Jodi perhaps) wraps a line on what I assume is the port cabin top winch. It looks to me like she wrapped the line counter-clockwise. What's up with that?
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No that's Jean. She's getting ready to ease the head sail sheet so I can retrieve it with the furling line that runs back to the transom. She's doing it in a way that keeps tension on the sheet as she unwinds it . You can watch her fully ease it as I retrieve the headsail. Jodi is on main.
 
Dennis Kitchen

Dennis Kitchen

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Jun 4, 2004
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Hunter 31 and 25 and fomerly 23.5 Stockton State Park Marina; MO
Great video, lot of good team work going on. Someday I gotta learn to fly a kite.
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
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Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
agprice22 said:
And we KNOW you are workin' on it!
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Just need mother nature. In 20knts TWS BlueJ does a cool 9 knots downwind. In 25, 10. Faster with more buts thats the end of fun for me!
 
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