The Quadcopter Sailing Videos Keep Coming: Foiler Moths

From the same English quadcopter video wizards, LPB Aerial Imagery, who did the winter dinghy start video I featured a couple of weeks ago; an over the top view of foiler International Moths.

Way cool. Stunning shot of flying boats speeding into the wintry sun.



Moths foiling sbsc rough clips from LPB Aerial Imagery on Vimeo.

Quadcopter View of a Keeler Regatta: 2014 Heineken Regatta

Bear with me dear reader. I have yet to get my fill of quadcopter sailing videos. At some point they will get boring, but not yet. Even this keelboat regatta viewed from above is fascinating.

From Pigeon Vision.



2014 Heineken Regatta filmed by a Drone from Pigeon Vision on Vimeo.

Another Quadcopter Sailing Video - English Winter Start

Quadcopter - Drone - whatever you want to call it - it's still cool to watch sailing videos taken from up high. A winter sailing series race start from Lymington Town Sailing Club with the typical melange of English sailing dinghies reaching out towards the Solent.



LTSC Winter Dinghy Series 2014 from Group LPB on Vimeo.

Header Photo: Bermuda Fitted Dinghy in the Drink

The previous header photo was of a Bermuda Fitted Dinghy on her side. This is the second time I have put the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy up as a header photo. Even though I consider the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy the most photogenic of all dinghy classes, it is obvious that this photo doesn't do justice to the sweet sheer, rounded lines and huge rig of the Fitted Dinghy. But the possibility of capsize is always lurking for the inattentive or for those who sail extremely over-canvassed dinghies, as is the case here. Just part of the fun and this blog takes a perverse delight (since the blogmeister has certainly spent his fair share swimming alongside a dinghy) in featuring photos of capsizes.

Here is a quadcopter video by Andrew Stevenson of the Bermuda Fitted Dinghies racing. (Light winds so no drama.) I can't embed it but you can follow this link to view the video.

The Dinghy "Gugh"

Not sure where this is - maybe one of the Net denizens reading this post can enlighten me - but this video has charm; a seaside row of cottages, repairing a dilapidated sailing dinghy next to a busy pedestrian path, rigging up and then kicking around on a protected bay. The class of dinghy is also a mystery. She looks short, maybe 2.4 meters, with an overhanging boom and a masthead jib - who knows if this is the original rig or something glommed onto the hull? And the name? What is, or who is Gugh?

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Update - January 10 - Max from over Bursledon Blog comes up with the place:

"Looks like Christchurch, the row of beach huts by Hengisbury Head. Sailing is inside Christchurch harbour and you can see view of the open sea in Christchurch Bay with the Isle of Wight in the distance.

More about Christchurch from Max's blog.

Patrick Hay chimes in with a comment and correctly identifies the dinghy as the Bobbin class, length 2.7 meters, beam 1.27 meters, manufactured by Pearson Brothers of England in the 1970's.

More information on the Bobbin can be found over here.

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All in all, a very nice piece of both quadcopter and land-based videography.




A Short Film About Gugh from Sam Swift on Vimeo.

The Waltz of the Firefly's

A quadcopter video of team racing in the 12' Firefly dinghies on West Kirby SC's Marine Lake.

And, buried deep within Earwigoagin, here is another video on Fireflies.


West Kirby Sailing Club from TCA Productions on Vimeo.