Showing posts with label drone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drone. Show all posts

Friday, June 30, 2017

Friday afternoon windsurfing

Friday afternoon before the long Canada day weekend and work emails had slowed to a trickle. There was a bit of SW flow so I headed to the island. Katie and Matt were watching me head out to the point and took a photo from a cool angle!

Getting ready to head out!
The Skate 108 and 6.2 weren't quite enough to get going up onto a plane. So I took the Techno with the wind foil and using the 6.2 sail I could pump onto the foil from time to time. I like using the footstraps on the board to control the foil under the board and started to regret not wearing my harness. My arms were pretty tired after just my 3rd run on the foil. I haven't had a bad crash yet on the foil after 3 sessions - so I think next time I'll actually wear my harness and see if I can keep some longer runs going.

The windsurfing storage locker is starting to fill up with gear as I get more rigged for the season!

The windsurf locker filling up!

And in other news, I'm happy to say that our area is cleared for drone flying. I should be able to use my father's day present soon. Stay tuned for that!

Map of the few restricted drone flying areas on northern Georgian Bay


Thursday, August 18, 2016

My first drone footage - perfect waves

At the AWT event in Baja there were several cameras running during our heats. Getting some nice windsurfing photos is always bonus of going to an AWT competition.

But this was the first time I've had footage taken of me windsurfing by a drone. I can't stop watching these 3 wave rides and remembering all the other nice long rides I got.



Carl Baja Drone Waves from Canadian Guy on Vimeo.

The waves at Punta San Carlos are world famous for being long, slow, gentle and consistent. I can't wait to get on some more.

Thanks Joey Sanchez for the footage, and Clark Merritt, Solosports, Dawn Pooley, the AWT and my wife for coming along with me!

Le windsurf, c'est relaxe... Longer blog post with results and photos is here.

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