Round the Island Yacht Race, 1st July 2023 ...as seen from Ventnor!

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  • Опубликовано: 30 июн 2023
  • Afternoon action of the annual "Round the Island Yacht Race".
    ...onthewight.com/watch-experien...
    Unfortunately, I was unable to get out in the morning and capture the biggest, fastest boats, but a nice fresh westerly wind kept things lively for when the bulk of the fleet came past Ventnor in the early afternoon so there was still plenty to see and film.
    Music: (courtesy of Epidemic Sound)
    "Soft Eyes" by Moon Craters, "Soft Glare" by Mar Vei
    Film gear:
    Panasonic Lumix GH5 with 300mm Nikkor lens, tripod with fluid head. Nikkor 50mm lens and GoPro Hero 8. Filmed in 4k at 25fps
    Edited using: DaVinci Resolve
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Комментарии • 88

  • @philiphurst831
    @philiphurst831 Год назад +31

    Lovely video! Great story-telling and some cracking shots of over-powered racing yachts. Loved the inclusion of the Cornish Crabber towards the end, plodding his way around, totally under control and most likely beating many of the top-end racing yachts on handicap. 👏👏👏

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +4

      Thanks. I have to say I love the style of those Cornish Crabbers and Drascombe Luggers, ...but I can also see the appeal of those small but fast trimarans such as the Dragonfly and Astus.

    • @alexandermenck6609
      @alexandermenck6609 Год назад +1

      Slow remains slow and racing means taking risks. If you want to do a cruise, fine. But that‘s no racing.

    • @ianbarnett5051
      @ianbarnett5051 Год назад +2

      Shrimper.

    • @mikefule330
      @mikefule330 Год назад +3

      @@alexandermenck6609 Hare and the tortoise. I bet the Crabber finished faster than the one that lost its mast. And as for risks, the RNLI is funded by charitable donations, the air ambulance is supported by donations, and the Coast Guard are paid for out of our taxes. All of those are conspicuously present at this event because of people taking risks.

    • @PhilbyFavourites
      @PhilbyFavourites Год назад

      @@alexandermenck6609tell that to the guy that got run down by the supertanker in Cowes week 2011. There’s a boy taking risks his wallet couldn’t afford.

  • @bittybottybutty9661
    @bittybottybutty9661 Год назад +13

    Absolutely love this video. I could just keep watching it. It is the best I have seen of the round the island races. So many facets, land and spectator shots along with the crews of the yachts working hard, not just watching a procession. You should win some sort of award for your hard work. I only found your videos a couple of months ago, so many types! and now always look forward to watching your videos.❤

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      Thank you so much for your kind words. I can't spend as much time as I'd sometimes like on honing my filming skills, but I'd like to think I'm steadily improving as I go along.

    • @bittybottybutty9661
      @bittybottybutty9661 Год назад

      @@paulknights3701. I realise now that you are well known for your films. I just thought you were an islander with a lot of hobbies.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад

      @@bittybottybutty9661 🤣...I am just an Islander with a lot of hobbies! (filmmaking happens to be one of them)

  • @jessiec8857
    @jessiec8857 Год назад +5

    What a lovely view of the yacht race well done 😊

  • @johnboy537y
    @johnboy537y Год назад +2

    Fabulous footage, well shot and edited. Great vid.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад

      🙏 thank you very much... makes the late night of editing worthwhile

  • @dutchflats
    @dutchflats Год назад +1

    Look a little gnarly out there!

  • @DragonflyTrimarans-UK
    @DragonflyTrimarans-UK Год назад +1

    A great video and fun to see us on the Dragonfly 25 trimaran at 2:48. Thanks for sharing it

  • @paulaharris-allen8900
    @paulaharris-allen8900 Год назад +1

    Lovely video, thanks.

  • @neilfurby555
    @neilfurby555 Год назад

    Superb video, thanks.

  • @chaldon2viewJ84M
    @chaldon2viewJ84M Год назад +1

    Wonderful to see this video as my son and his daughter completed that race. I think they did well in winds and waves like that👌👍

  • @paulabennett4788
    @paulabennett4788 Год назад +1

    Fabulous video. Very beautiful and dramatic and exciting. Great photography. I lived in Ventnor for eighteen years and love the Island. Thank you so much. Congratulations.😂😂

  • @ChrisPrast
    @ChrisPrast Год назад

    Great video, thanks for sharing.

  • @nickpridding3435
    @nickpridding3435 Год назад

    Excellent video. Thanks for sharing 👍👍

  • @almaknack9543
    @almaknack9543 Год назад

    Loved it !!!😊

  • @mauricetimony8186
    @mauricetimony8186 Год назад

    Just great!

  • @svenski41
    @svenski41 Год назад +5

    Great video that captures the race well. (Participated on a 38ft yacht). Lively and unforgiving conditions this year.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад

      Thanks. Yes, it looked quite fresh at times... I was happy to be on shore

  • @user-nt9nd7xm5f
    @user-nt9nd7xm5f Год назад

    Absolutely fantastic footage, was definitely a tad breezy ⛵💨

  • @yayaya6799
    @yayaya6799 Год назад +1

    Nice job. That's some serious wind, I am surprise so many chose to run their kites.

  • @Dominic-mm6yf
    @Dominic-mm6yf Год назад

    Amazing video Paul,I was there on holiday.Glad the crew that lost their mast got rescued.Going to paint a few scenes based on the photos I took.

  • @stevelawrie9115
    @stevelawrie9115 Год назад

    Excellent footage

  • @robinwhitehead1132
    @robinwhitehead1132 Год назад

    Lovely footage, Paul.

  • @joachimarbin8793
    @joachimarbin8793 Год назад

    Hardcore sailors not taking reefs and running spinnakers to boot! Great gybes captured on film, and a good save of that kite by the crew!

  • @westcorkman1
    @westcorkman1 Год назад +1

    Fresh day !

  • @britlooking
    @britlooking Год назад

    Witnessed race from Ventnor and this video is fantastic. Brilliant.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад

      Thank you 🙂

    • @britlooking
      @britlooking Год назад

      @@paulknights3701 may I ask what equipment you used to film

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      @@britlooking Panasonic Lumix GH5 camera with Nikkor 300mm 4.5 lens (equivalent to 600mm lens in 35mm terms)for all the 'long' shots, mounted at all times on Manfrotto 190B tripod fitted with a 502ah 'fluid' head - to assist with smooth panning. Also used 50mm Nikkor lens and GoPro Hero 8 for a handful of the other shots.

    • @britlooking
      @britlooking Год назад

      @@paulknights3701 Pro stuff

  • @roddyb
    @roddyb Год назад +10

    I am still knackered after 2 days recovery. We started with 2 reefs but by the time we reached Yarmouth I was grateful. Stephara had her best finish at 141st - next year - new plan of attack...

  • @AntonHu
    @AntonHu Год назад

    I've seen photos of a Farrier(?) tri and a big Gunboat 66 cat inverted, but plenty of mono-hulls in trouble here too.

  • @moonshadowchris
    @moonshadowchris Год назад

    Thank you so much for this. Filled heart from afar. In the future, would you please consider putting this as 3 x 2:30-minute shorts? It might highlight offshore sailing, the IOW, and specifically Ventnor even better, especially for those with limited awareness of any or all, in context or not! Great job though. Thanks again.😊

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад

      🙏 Thanks, ...'glad you enjoyed. I'm a 'Ventnor Boy' myself and love the south side of the Island, ...but if conditions are favourable, I plan on spending some time over at Cowes first week in August and capturing some of the action over there during Cowes week.

  • @richardsracingmad
    @richardsracingmad Год назад +1

    Wish I was crew on the cat! Looks awesome! Great conditions

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +3

      if you mean the Trimaran (Dragonfly with orange spinnaker at 2 mins 50 secs?), I'm with you on that 👍

    • @richardsracingmad
      @richardsracingmad Год назад

      @@paulknights3701so it is a trimaran! Looks awesome. I have done a bit of Hobie 16 Cat sailing…loads of fun

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      @@richardsracingmad 'Only once been on a Hobie cat or similar - a long time ago, and I was impressed at the acceleration in the conditions. Previously dinghy sailed and windsurfed a bit but I have to say these look the bees knees.... Yours (or mine) for around £80,000 + it seems! 😁

    • @DragonflyTrimarans-UK
      @DragonflyTrimarans-UK Год назад

      That's our Dragonfly 25 Sport trimaran, what a fun ride with the kite up

  • @youtubelivingonasailboat_1year

    Some cracking shots. We’ll done. IAN MCFARLANE

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      Thanks Ian. All the best with your new adventures.... (enjoyed your vlog - ruclips.net/video/RRwKCeIfPbw/видео.html) 👍

  • @TheJamesthe13
    @TheJamesthe13 Год назад +2

    Nice video, lovely views from the shore. We were on the other side of the lens though, and I can assure you that what look like “lively” sailing was in fact an utter shit show. 5 dismasting ( that I know of). 18 MOB situations, but thankfully no fatalities. Lovely day, but not for sailing, unless your hull speed exceeded wave speed. Been sailing JOG for years now, and that was probably the most nervous I’ve been on a downwind reach under kite.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +2

      Interesting to hear your take - someone who was actually out there on the water. With my own limited knowledge of sailing (some dinghy sailing and windsurfing from years ago!) I could see from a low down angle and looking downwind through the long lens that there was quite a following sea, which I understand wouldn't take much to induce a 'broach' (?) if the helmsman isn't constantly correcting the rudder... especially if there was a lot of sail area up. A day of action and incidents for sure then, but as you say, thankfully, no fatalities.

    • @hamishjohnson2351
      @hamishjohnson2351 Год назад +3

      Agreed. The video doesn't do it justice. I was out there with 3 of us in a 33ft legend and it was intense to say the least. Probably the most dangerous thing I've ever done in my life but loved it just the same. A 60ft boat capsised that we saw. Also had a massive tanker come through all the boats towards the finish. We broached once on the downleg as we don't have the keel for this kind of weather, had a unintended tack as well as a near miss from someone not knowing the rules while we are screaming "starboard" at him

    • @jeremyprice679
      @jeremyprice679 Год назад +3

      I was out there and it was ...interesting! Been sailing JOG for 20 odd years and wisdom has finally arrived - no spinnaker this time but still hit 15 knots! We found it exhilarating, but it could so easily have gone differently.

  • @greenstripeypaint
    @greenstripeypaint Год назад

    Nice video. Great pictures. Had to mute the annoying music and was then worried that I might be missing some commentary.

  • @notachannel4u
    @notachannel4u Год назад +1

    It looks very windy 25 to 35 knots but not a singgke boat with one reef, many where dismasted .

    • @DragonflyTrimarans-UK
      @DragonflyTrimarans-UK Год назад

      We saw lots reefed and were on our Dragonfly 25 trimaran, shown at 2:48 on Paul's video

  • @michaelnicholson4933
    @michaelnicholson4933 Год назад

    Brilliant video - a bit too much sail in some cases!!

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      Thank you - glad you enjoyed.
      I guess it's finding that balance - speed advantage of extra sail area versus risk of loss of control?

  • @garyhowes7510
    @garyhowes7510 Год назад

    Excellent video. It's one of those races I'd love to take part in. Don't the yachts carry their engines? Yeah some needed assistance like the dismasted ones but others looked like, with an engine, they could make their own way back.

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +2

      I wonder if maybe the rigging and sails got tangled around rudder and props?

    • @Stephengetseven
      @Stephengetseven Год назад +1

      If they have no way to cut away the rigging. The mast and sails just become sea anchors. The yacht that was dismasted probably is motoring. But because of the massive drag. They'll be going really slow.

    • @carolb3960
      @carolb3960 Год назад

      Yeah, and there is the risk of broken mast getting caught by a wave then punching into the hull.

  • @warjacare
    @warjacare Год назад +1

    What country? What island?

    • @paulknights3701
      @paulknights3701  Год назад +1

      Isle of Wight, off the south coast of the UK - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Island_Race

  • @southseasailing
    @southseasailing Год назад

    Mayhem!

  • @manuelb8808
    @manuelb8808 10 месяцев назад

    It's way too short, too short!

  • @stuartcrane9409
    @stuartcrane9409 Год назад +4

    Wow this video clearly shows a number of crews that shouldn’t have been taking part due to incompetence

    • @TheJamesthe13
      @TheJamesthe13 Год назад +6

      Nah mate, that sea state was a nightmare. Wind against tide, wave interval of less than 10seconds. Following sea, following wind, 15knts gusting 23kts (true). Just could not keep the boat on a steady course, kites just kept collapsing all over. Boats broaching left and right, forcing others to manoeuvre to avoid,forcing more collapses. Was really rather unpleasant.

    • @hamishjohnson2351
      @hamishjohnson2351 Год назад

      @@TheJamesthe13 I feel ya James. Was out there in a 33ft non-race boat. Race for us lasted over 11 hrs. Last leg was super hard graft.

    • @DavidAcklam
      @DavidAcklam Год назад +3

      Not sure incompetent crews take part it was seriously challenging conditions and gear failure happens.

    • @moonshadowchris
      @moonshadowchris Год назад

      How can you super like or amplify appreciation of a post? If I knew, I would with this one. Point.

    • @rudifokkens4889
      @rudifokkens4889 Год назад +3

      @@TheJamesthe13 At 3:44. look at GBR 73R on the right side of the screen. Human gybe preventer is never recommended, especially in those conditions.

  • @powellriver100
    @powellriver100 Год назад +2

    To many over powered ! Bad sailing judgement !!