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Frank Hopper
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Pitcairn Island
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Initially Posted - 10/11/2004 : 07:13:05

Rainbows are hard to photograph, this one was very subtle and seemed just for me... and another cheesy movie.[url="http://homepage.mac.com/fhopper/iMovieTheater80.html"]Northend[/url]

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 09:03:14

Frank - Cool picture. And the movie's not all that cheesy.

It's amazing how music triggers memories. I had that Blood, Sweat and Tears album on 8-track and it was the background music for many memorable times back when I was sowing my wild oats. Now my only wild oats are in my oat bran.

Steve

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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 11:02:34

Frank,

Your full-batten mainsail...lust, lust, drool, drool.

Nice pic!

Jim Williams
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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 11:04:02

Awesome picture, Frank. Definitely a wall hanger! I wonder if PhotoShop would allow me to modify the sail number, add a bunch of mud-dauber stains, and erase the masthead fly. ;-)

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 11:33:06

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jwilliams
 Frank,

Your full-batten mainsail...lust, lust, drool, drool.

Nice pic!

Jim Williams
Hey Jude C25FK 2958
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Thanks, notice how small the spreader patch is, full battens keep the sail from moving so the same small spot is all that ever touches the spreader.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 12:44:15

Frank, you better get some telltales on the mainsail before the big race!

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 13:38:22

Jim - he has telltales on the leech of the main - the best place for them!

Derek

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 14:20:30

There is no way that I will be a contender even if I install little wings on my sails. My function at the regatta will be to act as a slow moving obstruction.

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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 14:57:09

Could it be the slow movement comes from misreading the wind direction. It looks to me that you indicator has the tacking angle set on the beam of the boat rather than the stern. And since everyone is being critical, you are sheeted in kind of tight.

Please dont take me seeriously either. Great photo of the rainbow.

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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 14:59:14

just watched the video, excessivly cool.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 16:25:31

Occasionally we are positioned just right, and then the sun projects the shadow of the airplane where we can see it on the clouds off to the side and slightly below us. The shadow always has a circular rainbow around it......I have never been able to A: Have a camera with me when it happened, or B: Get it out fast enough to photograph it....

Frank, how does one get movies on the web...? I have an 8mm, do I need a digital or is there a simple way to get the analog converted. Then manipulate it and size it with what software? And then? Wait, I just found iMovie on my pewter....I'll start reading the Help section there.

It would be waaaayyyyy cool if I could post the planned rounding of Diamond Shoals this fall.......

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Formerly C250 WB #618)

Edited by - Oscar on 10/11/2004 16:27:48

Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/11/2004 : 21:13:34

iMovie and my digital still camera in video mode is all I do. The sound tracks are luck of the draw for what is on the stereo at the time I shoot it.

The boat is wing on wing without a pole, quite frankly I think the sails look mighty good! I just looked up and noticed the rainbow and grabbed my camera from the companionway and stepped back to starboard of the tiller and shot, the boat never moved off course.

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