Frank’s 3rd Leg!

colin bastable 4 Comments

I have been so busy that I’m years behind editing the 3rd and 4th leg videos of Frank’s solo sail from Gosport England to Corpus Christi Texas. This weekend I managed to put together a video of one day, from Dawn To Dusk, March 2nd 2015.
The audio is poor. There is so much background noise on a sailboat, which you tune out when sailing. Lines banging and all sorts of other noises, plus the GoPro has a very limited microphone. I’d assumed it would be better. Next time I will wear a better mic.

Sadly, WordPress has reduced the definition so much that I can either make the video postage stamp size, or bigger but a blurry mess. The original idea was a spoof on One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich”, a movie I have never seen but which was extensively advertised in the flicks when I was a schoolboy (I went to the movies most weekends back then).

4 thoughts on “Frank’s 3rd Leg!”

  1. Managed to DL Video And Audio as Two Separate Files…
    Saved for Posterity.
    I Only wish I had my Grandad’s Diary (James Meredith Peacock) from his Journey to the Antarctic with Scott.

    I Have Yet to Find Any Records of him via the Rapidly Memory Wiping of 👀gle.

    Mum’s Elder Sister Doreen, Told my Younger Sister Dyan, how she’d Transcribed it, before his Death, as a Young Girl in Liverpool.

    Sadly Auntie Doreen Died in 2021 aged 99 and Never did Locate it to Send to Us…
    She was Not Taken to Fanciful Statements of Untruth.

    Oh Well the Mysteries and Unanswered Questions Abound…

    Who Knows Where the Hell We Are…🤔

    Cha nel fys aym

    Cair vie!…🥰🐾🐾🙏

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    • Hi Cassie. Wow! That is just awesome! The Antarctic, and your Grandad, I mean. Strong genes on that side of your family: 40 Woodbine a day and living to 99. Impressive! I’ll upload the full file to dropbox, if you are interested. Slightly better audio. I hope you are well. Fine here. xx

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  2. G’Day my Brother from another Mother!

    Wonderful Video Diary…
    I was Able to Full Screen It on My End and Up the Res to 1080

    I Only Wish I Could Download it…😢

    What Freedom!

    Those Beautiful Crepuscular Rays of Sol Setting.
    And I Had No Idea that Flying Fish Could be so Tiny…

    Love to You and Yours and Fair Winds, Colin. ⛵

    Hugs and Wags…🥰🐾🐾🙏

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    • Oh well done! Somewhere on this site are the first two legs: Falmouth to Spain and then Spain to a tiny Island off Madeira called Porto Santo, for 12 hours to shimmy up the mast and rescue the halyard. Then i need to do leg 3 (this is an excerpt!) to St Croix USVI (instead of Tortola) and then finally St Croix to Corpus Christi. Sadly, I did a regular video diary on leg 3 but can’t hear much of what I say!!!
      Love and Hugs!
      xx

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