Author: sergem

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Just Jibes

I need to lean forward more.

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Site: Coyote Point
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Tags Coyote Point, technique

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Happy Thursday!

Huge holes, killer blasts, white-haired mogul swell. Happy Thursday!

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Site: Coyote Point
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Tags Coyote Point, small gear

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A Preview

Post author By sergem
Post date March 8, 2009
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North Pacific High made a shy (with a tad of WSW) appearance today, first in the year. Paging Mike Godsey!

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Site: Coyote Point
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Tags Coyote Point

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Let me Fly!

Good old-fashioned 6.6 fun at Coyote. Unreliable clearing wind, kept switching to WSW, driving port tack right into chop. Need to work on keeping the horizon level!

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Site: Coyote Point
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Tags Coyote Point

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Deceptive winter wind pattern, never mind the date. Got stuck waterstarting on the outside with some chop and little wind. Then it came up with a vengeance, I could only get couple of reaches with the kit that I rigged. Hey, it’s spring now and there are no excuses to keep sails dry anymore!

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Site: Oyster Point
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Tags eating it, Oyster Point

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February is the New March At 3rd Avenue

Post author By sergem
Post date February 11, 2009
5 Comments on February is the New March At 3rd Avenue

Monday 1:30pm-2:30pm at 3rd Avenue, and I again forgot the booties.
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Site: 3rd Avenue
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Tags 3rd Avenue, winter

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Quality Compressed Videos with GoPro Hero

Post author By sergem
Post date February 8, 2009
1 Comment on Quality Compressed Videos with GoPro Hero

Here is how I compressed this Giampaolo’s amazing video:

Premiere Elements Shadows/Highlights filter (enable remove flicker in clip’s field options)

Sometimes it is worth to add just little bit of sharpen filter too, but not in this case

Frameserve (Debugmode) video to VirtualDub to resize to 400×304 (multiple of 16) and convert sound to 22050Hz Mono

Mencoder to encode into H.264 at 650Kbps (gobs of settings in the bat file, also need MP4Box)

Served from Amazon S3 using this script (the script needs unique player names if you have more than one player on a page). GP also points out (thanks!) that you’d want to remove page breaks if you post it on Blogspot.

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12V Portable Shower / Washer

Post author By sergem
Post date February 1, 2009
7 Comments on 12V Portable Shower / Washer

I don’t like to wash my wetsuit. This is usually the last step after wrap-up and it involves taking suit from the bag, going to backyard, hosing it inside out and then carrying it back to dry. Really kills your mood after the session.