here’s a great acoustic version of “It is Well with My Soul” by Daniel Martin Moore.
When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
I’ll be spending the long weekend with my family, hoping to enjoy some time outdoors, some time spent on more coats of varnish on my Sunfish wood parts, and just general relaxation.
have a happy and blessed Easter weekend!
thanks to Doug for letting me share this nice video he made of sailing his Sunfish sailboat around on the Biscayne Bay, near Miami, Florida.
I like the tiller mounted camera angle – I used that mount several times on my older Sunfish. on my new Sunfish the tiller sits too close to the deck, and my home-made mount wouldn’t fit, so I switched to mounting the camera out on the boom of the sail. check out my video page for some examples of videos I’ve taken.
pretty awesome video of some amazing boats and lifestyle on the water.
hat tip to blogger Bone in Its Teeth.
I found this video the other day of a pretty relaxing looking sail on a Sunfish on Sesachacha Pond near Nantucket, Massachusetts.
I really like the graphic of an American flag that he has between the daggerboard slot and the splashguard. that’s right where I put an inspection port on my old Sunfish, though.
these light shows are getting more and more popular these days. this one is from a few years ago, and is very well done, set to the song “Wizards in Winter” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
I just saw this promo video for the new GoPro HD Hero2 video camera. take the time to let it load up in HD and enjoy – crazy Red Bull airplanes, surfers, snow skiers, base jumpers, and the like show off the newly updated video camera.
I didn’t see any sailors highlighted in the video, though! I’ve been loving using my GoPro HD Surf Hero on my Sunfish (here’s my video from Crystal Lake last fall), as well as random times swimming or playing in and around the water.
the new GoPro HD Hero2 video camera ($300) is out just in time for Christmas – put it on your list!
for today’s tunes, a catchy tune from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) titled: “Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”. the video was made by some students, but it’s not really clear who they are or where they are students, but it’s pretty creative:
Just listen to me I won’t pretend to
Understand the movement of the wind
Or the waves out in the ocean or how
Like the hours I change softly slowly
Plainly blindly oh me oh my!
CYHSY is yet another indie band that I discovered several years back listening to their Lounge Act podcast from WOXY.com while living in Cincinnati. they have a very distinct sound, and the lead singer’s voice is… well… interesting. the band’s music grows on you, though, really it does. the band’s 3rd album, Hysterical, is set to release soon (September 2011).
I’ve had a link to this video over in the “links” on the right-hand side for quite some time, but don’t recall ever posting about it. this is a video taken at Laser Performance in Rhode Island, the manufacturer of the Sunfish and Laser and other small sailboats, about how to make repairs to a fiberglass boat.
just thought it’d be appropriate to post this for comparison, as I just posted the sunfish fiberglass repair video by doug, a 1st-time do-it-yourself guy who did such a great job with his video.
just a few days ago, I saw this sweet how-to video posted over at the Sunfish Forum for doing your own fiberglass repair to fix leaks or hull damage to your Sunfish.
doug does a sweet job of narrating the process and putting the video together, and makes the whole process look pretty simple! and, all this from a first-timer, no less!
This is a video of a repair I made to one of my early 1970′s sunfish that had a split in the hull underneath the cockpit.
For me this was a first time fiberglass repair.
here’s a short video I put together from my sailing adventure a few days ago on Kent Lake at Kensington Metropark in Michigan. you can see the frustration I was having with the weeds, see a few dead fish go floating by, but also at least a decent bit of sailing that afternoon.
this is my 1st time mounting the GoPro HD Surf Hero video camera out on the lower boom – I kind of like the perspective it gives. watching the video, I can also see that the camera angle/view gives more of an idea when I was getting into the weeds, as there were times out on the water that I didn’t even realize I was getting close to a weed cluster.
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