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  1. 8th May 2015, 12:46 PM #1
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    Unusual Aspect

    Requires a head for heights, a bosun's chair and a calm day but it's worth it for the shot. -isn't it?

    Unusual Aspect

    Even got the shadow....

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  2. 8th May 2015, 01:24 PM #2
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Nice angles.
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  3. 8th May 2015, 01:35 PM #3
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    A perspective I've never seen before. Thanks for taking us with you!
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  4. 8th May 2015, 10:13 PM #4
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    I like it! Good thing I am not afraid of heights!
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  5. 8th May 2015, 10:59 PM #5
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    All the above, Graham. Nice boat too!
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  6. 8th May 2015, 11:03 PM #6
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Very interesting (and really unusual) shots, Graham. Nice!
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    #1 is nice - even if I did grab my chair.
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  8. 9th May 2015, 02:47 AM #8
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    so how did you get the boat in such focus with the water looking a bit blurry ... it looks cool.. i'm assuming the small spots in the water are wave crests ....
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  9. 9th May 2015, 05:23 AM #9
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Quote Originally Posted by MatthewWilliams View Post
    so how did you get the boat in such focus with the water looking a bit blurry ... it looks cool.. i'm assuming the small spots in the water are wave crests ....
    The water is not actually blurry. In #1 the bright spots on the right are bright breaking wavelets which are slightly burnt out due to their brightness in the sun. The aqua/blue spots in the water are the local jelly fish which look blurry because they're just below the surface and the water covering them makes them appear that way.

    The yacht is a 34ft UK built UFO which belongs to my son-in-law.

    My own boat is a tad smaller but a lot faster

    For those familiar with the area this is looking back towards Redcliffe from the sandhills at Lucinda Bay on Moreton Island.

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  10. 9th May 2015, 10:05 AM #10
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Graham...were you playing look-out that you climbed to the top of the sail to get these shots? Naughty-naughty...I was thinking your would have been on top a bridge, but I changed my mind when you said the boat belongs to your son-in-law....your SIL is practicing to participate in the Brisbane to Keppel Yacht Race, is he? just curious...
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  11. 9th May 2015, 11:13 AM #11
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Quote Originally Posted by IzzieK View Post
    your SIL is practicing to participate in the Brisbane to Keppel Yacht Race, is he? just curious...
    No it's not really a racing yacht unless on handicap not to mention finding the time to do it in a busy world.
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  12. 9th May 2015, 09:33 PM #12
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    The view looks familiar to me, as I have been working as rigger a few years. When I was in Ireland some twenty-five years ago, I changed many forestays with the mast standing, using the spinnaker halyard as a stay while working. It looked something like that from up there. I never went up without my self-made harness, and I always made sure that I wouldn't come down as a surprise... The forestays broke because the roll reefing was not well done on a series of German boats. I fixed the problem by creating an angle between the jib halyard and the forestay, so that the halyard would not wind itself around the forestay and break it.

    I mostly inch-worm myself up with prussiks. Otherwise it is of course easier to use a halyard and a companion who does the hauling.
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  13. 9th May 2015, 10:19 PM #13
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Interesting experience Urban. In my case I am a novice but it helped to have a son-in-law who was himself a rigger before he met my daughter so he had the gear and the expertise.
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  14. 10th May 2015, 01:23 AM #14
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Yep now i see jellyfish .... Big Jellyfish
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  15. 10th May 2015, 01:33 AM #15
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Beautiful, reminds me of the description in Moby Dick about standing watch in the rigging.
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  16. 10th May 2015, 01:41 PM #16
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    Re: Unusual Aspect

    Great shots Graham,
    One would think every little movement the boat makes would be ten fold up there.
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