Christmas Cabin Fever - Episode 83
Our final episode in the Whitsundays sees us heading south with heavy weather on the way. We take shelter in between 2 islands but find our position untenable at the turn of the tide. After 30+ knot winds over Christmas a cyclone in the area keeps our plans uncertain and we find ourselves in a position of having to race 30 miles to enter a creek before the turn of the tide.
We hope you enjoy this week's action packed installment it was a pretty hectic, grey and wet Christmas!
A very very belated season's greetings to one and all :-D
Pascale
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Sometimes we need one more person to hang onto the filming gear while we manage the boat when things get at their most exciting. As we develop our filmmaking budget, we have certainly upgraded our sound equipment to work outside but we still hit some limits of windspeed we can record in. We have got a bit of feedback requesting more natural sound so we have been trying to capture more of it to use in editing and cut down on just using music. It's all still an experiment in action and we're grateful that you guys are supporting our journey to become better documentarians.(There's a way to go!)
Ah that high wind shrieking sound in the rigging! I don't know what kind of gear you have to record the audio, but for me audio is certainly as important if not more. Would have loved to hear the sailing sounds (done right), with real-time narration (done right) during the height of the action! I know you just laid out a fair amount for the new drone, which is super awesome, maybe just some wind muffs..heck maybe you've already have the great audio set up and I'm just being picky?! Truth is I've been land-locked for four years care giving, and I miss all the sounds a sailboat makes... and the song of the sea. ✍️))) Love your videos.. ❤️
"Tropical Weather". Not my favorite! Great vid though ;-)
We haven't seen winter for 2 years so Pascale is celebrating daily our break from 'Tropical Weather' lately. Winter will still be in the tropics but it should be nice and cool and dry.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9598992 Wistari Creek would be recommended in Noel Patrick’s guide 🙂 but it seems a very good Anchorage all the same, going by your video.
It looked good for a pretty major event. We could have taken the bottom mid tide in one of the tighter side gutters and been snug as a bug. The weather shut the fish down though so we were a bit impoverished. Because it was school holidays, there was a fair bit of traffic in there as there are a few boat ramps within easy dinghy range.
Thank you for sharing.. an awesome adventure.
No bust offs from marauding GT's this time around!
Wonderful episode! Loved all the sailing and strategy preparing for the high winds. So fun to explore the Whitsundays again with you. Thanks so much for taking us along!
It was a rough old Christmas Scott but that's the way of adventures; Nasty things that make you late for supper! It has led to some really great times that we'll share with you in a few episodes and some new friends met in the bargain.
Excellent adventure. Ty for sharing. BTW, do you have backup paper charts just in case you have a failure in your mapping s/w? We've all become quite connected to "glass" charts...
We sure do, as one of our former Patrons Nigel gave us an enormous roll of them. For some sections we don't but our computer program on 2 seperate machines has the facility of being able to lay off transits. This means I can still triangulate our position for coastal nav with no satellite reception. That said, we have 4 different independent means of receiving GPS information so failing a Kessler Event, losing our position is moderate- highly unlikely. Kessler Syndrome link in case you are unfamiliar follows. As more countries throw junk into orbit, a good reason to keep our mind and pencils sharp! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome