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Sunday IOM pics

Saturday IOM pics

Proof that Stockholm is much closer to the Center of The World than Helsinki: Number of participants, SC race 2, Helsinki: 11 Number of participants, SC race 3, Stockholm: 44

2010 IOM Nordic Champs

Update2: youtube-videos Update: final results: http://www.rc-purjehdus.net/2010/09/2010-iom-nordic-championships-%E2%80%93-day-2/ Only 9 skippers (6 FIN, 3 SWE) in this years IOM Nordic Championships, held at NJK Björkholmen, Helsinki. There are more pictures in picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/2010IOMNordicChampionships# Preliminary results from day 1: http://www.rc-purjehdus.net/2010/09/2010-iom-nordic-championships-day-1/ I have some incredibly shaky video material shot with the 500D and 70-200 lens which I may or [...]

IOM Radio Sailing on Youtube

Maybe the best collection ever of IOM, or any class really, radio sailing videos available online: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kingg2855 Way to go "Kingg2855" !

Model Expo Sunday

Some random pics from Sunday at the 2010 Helsinki Model Expo. The two 1:10RC scale yachts look nice, but must take an enormous amount of time to build, and are 140cm long and weigh 10kg (like a 1970-80s Marblehead?). All of which contrasts quite strongly with the MicroMagic, where presumably some of the better sailing this season [...]

Model Expo 2010 setup

It's time for this years Model Expo in the Helsinki convention center. We set up some boats yesterday and will have Micro Magic, IOM, 5.5mrc, and as a new thing for this year 1:10RC-boats on display. The big 1:10 boats (behind the table against the wall) are built by a local enthusiast fairly accurately to [...]

Garmin 405cx aboard an IOM

The 405cx gps-watch is small and light enough to just tape to the aft-deck of an IOM. Today's event in Tampere had 12 races but I missed a few due to electrical problems. Races 1 and 2 above, and races 7-12 below. It's funny how google-maps and google-earth show permanent winter and ice in Tampere [...]

Turku IOM Ranking

Thanks to Jussi Jaakkola for these images from Saturday's event. It's always nice to sail with the Nr 2 rig, we only get to do that once or twice per season usually.

2009 FIN IOM Ranking 5

Some pictures from the first day: And some videos from the second day: (shot with an N95, sorry for the quality...) Results here. Does anyone have one of the new Canon or Nikon DSLRs which can record video? With a super-zoom (something like 18-200 mm), is it any good for recording video like this?

Helsinki Model Expo 2009

    See also pictures and videos from past years: Model Expo 2008 Model Expo 2007: day2, day3 Model Expo 2006