Ronnie
Jetboaters Fleet Admiral
- Messages
- 8,559
- Reaction score
- 11,453
- Points
- 647
- Location
- SF Bay Area
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2010
- Boat Model
- Limited S
- Boat Length
- 24
I got to take the boat out again last weekend with some friends. I've done so several times over the past two years but won't likely do it again. This time the tide may have been low but I backed my trailer tires off of the end of the ramp. I could tell by how quickly it dropped. Once I walked up on the dock I could see the line indicating the end of the ramp/drop off. Luckily I was able to launch and recover without incident but both required me to go off the end of the ramp.
We launched out of Benicia Marina, into Suisun for lunch and then back. Along the way we drove under the Benicia Bridge, Carcinez (sp?) Bridge, by the Moth Ball Fleet (what's left of it anyway) and even past U.C. Berkeley's research vessel. As luck would have it, it was sunny on the day before and the day afterwards but cloudy on the day I went out. No quad copter footage this time around, I charged and brought it but just wasn't feeling it. In a way it was a good thing since I got another flat (which makes two in the past two months, I also determined and eliminated the root cause), that cost me an hour at the ramp after recovering the boat and $125 at America's Tire the next day. I'll try and add some subtitles and still shots to this video later but for now this is what I've got.
By the way I used GoPro's freeware to edit the video. It is all sped up from the initial setting of 100 to either 800 (8x) or 4000 (40x). I downloaded the music via youtube's video manager so it was at no cost and I should not get any copyright infringement warning messages as a result. The video is just under 5 minutes long, actual recording time was about 2 hours.
Enjoy.
We launched out of Benicia Marina, into Suisun for lunch and then back. Along the way we drove under the Benicia Bridge, Carcinez (sp?) Bridge, by the Moth Ball Fleet (what's left of it anyway) and even past U.C. Berkeley's research vessel. As luck would have it, it was sunny on the day before and the day afterwards but cloudy on the day I went out. No quad copter footage this time around, I charged and brought it but just wasn't feeling it. In a way it was a good thing since I got another flat (which makes two in the past two months, I also determined and eliminated the root cause), that cost me an hour at the ramp after recovering the boat and $125 at America's Tire the next day. I'll try and add some subtitles and still shots to this video later but for now this is what I've got.
By the way I used GoPro's freeware to edit the video. It is all sped up from the initial setting of 100 to either 800 (8x) or 4000 (40x). I downloaded the music via youtube's video manager so it was at no cost and I should not get any copyright infringement warning messages as a result. The video is just under 5 minutes long, actual recording time was about 2 hours.
Enjoy.
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