More pics from the Atlantic ocean...











Focused... Some manual steering was obviously necessary when reefing the main.
Great shots. Nice adventure.
True wind is the actual wind speed. Apparent wind is the vector sum of the true wind and boat speed.
Keep up the great work.
Eric
Fantastic photos! Interesting you still able to make fine meals in such weather. I think normally people huddle on the floor eating cold canned foods in such conditions. Even more impressed you got those paper cupcake holder things for the muffins going on. :-)
Well, typically the most exciting moments never get captured! This awesome sounding store. This needs to fixed. Checking that GO PRo site, they do delivery to Martinque (and a number of other islands in the Caribbean, check the estimated shipping cost dropdown in the shopping cart for all the places). Total for the Go Pro surf one and shipping a small 300 dollars delivered to Martinque. However I would suggest a duty-free or tax-free island for shipping. Have it shipped to a Fedex office or UPS or DHL office as your address, for pickup.
This is small money in the grand scheme of things. You bolt it onto the bow as you plying through the oceans and capture all in wide angle HD. Even in calm weather rounding a point and pulling into Marigot Bay would make for awesome footage. Maybe even sellable !
Either that or the aquapac casing at 10% only cost of the vid.cam. for your SLR. Even check chandleries where you are or going for same or similar. But absolutely something needs to be done, as it's a crucial part missing. Just imagine sticking the HD Go PRo on the bow at the water line as the dolphins are dancing along and capturing that. Don't think I have ever seen footage of such. Tons of creative ideas which I don't think you are short off.
Thing is just to pull the trigger an solve the problem.
p.s. even check with your readers if going to one of the islands or friends if someone coming to visit you specifically, to buy one and hand carry it in their luggage and reimburse them one arrival. All very simple.
your pictures always makes my evening! Such a good photographer you are!! I envy you MUCHO!
I've found that even on video its difficult to truly catch the magnitude of the waves. Glad to see you've discovered reading to each other. My wife and I do the same thing, I never knew it could be so fun!
Hi Taru,
Hi Alex,
Back home in Belgium with very sunny but cold days.
I will maybe order some books. If you want, I can try to find Nicoles’s book (7 fois le tour du soleil) and I just saw that her last book (Autre chose) written just before her death has been published.
Do you have some postal address to send it if I find it?
I hope all is fine for you, we regret that we meet you so shortly.
Kind regards,
Luc
I have been using an Olympus 8000 on my boat for 2 years and I am very happy with it, tough, waterproof to 10m, takes small movies. I keep it in a pouch in the cockpit all the time.
Over 50 knots down wind, how was the boat taking it in such heavy seas and high winds?
If you were to do it again would you choose the same sailboat?
Eric,
true about the true/apparent wind, but if it is from the back of the boat and therefore you are running, it is actually less than the true one.
Also, pulpo (octopussy), calamares (squids) or sepias (cuttlefish) are great cooked in su tinta (their ink)!
Thank you Luc, I'll send you our postal address. It was really great seeing you both. Hope that we meet you again somewhere soon.
Michael: The boat took it good, although we're convinced that we would prefer to choose a bit larger boat for our next ocean crossing. I think Alex has more to add to this, will ask him to write something about it later on.