Apologies for the delay
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A trademark of mine has been to be useless at video. With good intention, I started the Japan journey with an Insta360 camera, but unwittingly scraped a lens across some concrete having completed a particularly frightening sail round a major port at night, with a 2-metre swell running. The scratching ruined all subsequent footage, so I posted the camera to a friend (Paul) and forgot about it.
Making a short story shorter, I recovered and repaired the camera, and finally have some reasonable footage (which is available on the online version of this post).
- All the best, Jono
Here's the recent log entry...
Apologies for the Delay
Apologies for the delay.
It's been a mixed bag of weather this week: rain, some snow flurries, and then yesterday glorious sunshine! The wind also switched to the south, which helped to flatten the sea because of the shelter afforded by the Noto Peninsula, about 40nm away.
The original Windsurf Round Japan sail (Loft Switchblade 8.5, sadly no longer with us) lives on in the form of a camber inducer turned into a camera mount, and I used it to grab some video. I sailed about 15 nm and retired for the day at Itoigawa with the wind strength already beyond sensible.
Yumiko got some good pictures that show the impressive mountains round here. Keep an eye on Surf Magazin (German Surf) for those.
In other dual use life hacks, we are now using my Unifiber waist harness as an excellent wind shield for the camping stove. Thanks Unifiber, and apologies that I melted the foam back support.
Today is too windy to sail so I replaced the tendon of the universal joint (that connects board and sail). The original joint has splits developing and its condition had been playing on my mind. The new one looks good, but I won't trust it properly until it has a few sessions logged.
Cherry blossom and daffodils sightings are becoming more commonplace. All's good!
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