Technical Pages

Fixing the cameras in the RS Toura

Camera Setup

Setting up the cameras on the boats

GPS and Technical Overlays

Technoical overlays to add data to the videos on YouTube

Devices like GPS can record the distance and speed of the boat. The Telemetry overlay allows this data to be see in an attractive and useful way on the video.

Handicap

The Handicap system tries to make competing different boats against each other a bit fairer and leaves the positioning to the skill of the Helm

Philip as crew sitting in the front of the RS Toura

Filming

Filming sailing dinghies from the shore

Filming from the bank or shore, or adding the cameras to the boat being filmed, or getting in the camera boat to get those videos and pictures.

Taking out the Whaly camera boat

All Electric

A rear view of the Whaly camera boat

One of the decisions we made when getting the boats was to be green and go all electric, and have the battery charged via the solar chargers.

eLite Review

Navy 3.0 Review

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Charger Problems

I recently invested in a new E30 battery for the Whaly, along with a second charger to enhance our boating experience. One charger is installed on the boat, with cables neatly buried under the floor and a mains outlet in the steering console, allowing convenient charging while the battery is on board.

To maximize efficiency, I bought a second charger to use at home, powered by our solar array. This setup enables us to charge the boat for free. However, despite advertising as the current model, the second charger turned out to be an older version with spade clips, not the latest connectors.

Epropulsion informed me of this discrepancy and after a bit of searching, Kevin McEntee came up trumps with all the cables I needed. So full marks to them and now I can charge my boat at home for free.

The E30 ePropulsion battery and its charger that is giving us so many problems at present

Learning to Sail with a Model Boat

The 3-D boat  hull with its mast and boom

Designing and building a model boat from scratch

Using CAD to design the sail shape