Hi all
I recently uncovered a video cassette of film footage recorded by Gerry Ledger at the 1992 Burton week. Despite being almost beyond recovery I have managed to download nearly 2 hours of footage to my Mac. I am now pondering what to do with it! There is some brilliant coverage andd for the time being I am uploading byte sized chunks to You-tube (with Gerry's kind permission)....bear with me as it takes a huge amount of time, and these are just raw chunks from the original footage not a polished and editted film with music....but if you were there you will almost certainly be on film! If you werent have a look at a time when AC boats were the forefront of technology, the Final Chapters had just appeared and were taking the Crusaders, Baggys and Design 8's on in a head to head and Messr's Pelling and Simpkins could smoke anyone downwind in a breeze!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEdwillett
Nice work Ed (and Gerry)
You can hear that little outboard straining to keep up with the 12's on the reaches!
Guess this must have been before steady-cams were invented
Tim
Yes Tim, I was useing a simple water proof camera lent by I cant remember who and the rib was a bit bouncy for closeups.
I was thinking you did remarkably well under the circumstances!
Just uploaded the footage of Mike Shallow trialling a spinnaker on N3313 to a large crowd of N12 onlookers on the beach....
I remember being in that group watching Mike show off his pace in not much wind. I had just been introduced to Phil Morrison who also was taking more than a passing interest.
Looks very much like the 200, which appeared just a couple of years later. I thought it was a fantastic idea at the time.
Andy
Thats an interesting thought Andy...perhaps this footage shows the sea trials of the prototype RS200....