Yet another Captain drone classic. Loved the shots and also love that it shows all the possibilities for drone mishaps when using on a sailboat. It's stuff someone may not consider until trying to land back aboard. Especially FPV.
I just moved to Ottawa a year ago (today actually). I had a mavic mini at home, but just got the mini 4 pro so this is really neat to see. This is great, as I’m still looking for great flying areas haha. Thanks!
For drone landings, without hand catching, it does not meet the DJI Care refresh policy of “the pilot made an excellent decision but unfortunately the drone was to blame” :-)
I'm glad you brought the Mini 3 Pro in before those super strong winds came in as that would have really up the ante with the landing / hand grab! I'm enjoying my Mini 3 Pro, but I have absolutely no plans of taking off or landing on a boat... I'll leave that to professionals such as yourself, Steve!
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I have to say that I was quite disappointed when I cycled all the way out to Petrie Island last week and didn’t see you there 😃 I even slowed down by a jeep to see if you were inside. The guy inside wasn’t impressed!
@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa Ha ha, yup I don't visit Petrie much in the summer as it is filled with many families and I like to fly in areas where their are less humans. Humans are not only obstacles to any type of drone but also curious people and they all want to distract a pilot with questions.
Looks like you-all had a good day. Nice sail boat, for sure. I hand catch my camera drones quite often. Usually just make sure the bottom sensor sees my hand and bring it down.
Good catch right there! You guys make it look easy but I love the Mini 3 too much to risk trying this! Enjoyed this refreshing content and all the details you put in here.
Wow, that is a tight landing on a sailboat with all that rigging and the sails. I routinely drone on the Ottawa River too but from a power boat with a landing spot at the front of the boat. My "formula" for successful recovery is as follows: 1- Just before you land, update the home point to where you are (DJI should have a software option where the drone "follows the controller" for continuous updating of the home point " automatically, but doesn't) 2- Then activate return to home. When you actually see the drone coming down, cancel the RTH. Then switch to Tripod mode and turn off accident avoidance. Then slowly and carefully bring it to home on the landing pad goin down and forward at the same time. This IS easier said than done, but with extra care, I find it works as well as anything else I've found to land the drone. It must be done slowly and carefully as the boat is continually drifting. The Tripod mode gives you maximum control at slow speeds.. This works for me using the Air 2 and Zoom. Doing this, I have lost my fear of flying over water...... Very pleasant video to watch btw...thank you as always for your efforts
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Well enough if one is very careful. I really think that DJI should have the option for the home point to follow the drone. We often do videos where one person drives while the second manoevers the drone to take shots along certain historical routes (like the Opeongo trail north of Ottawa). Just before we land, we always update the home point to at least bring the drone close to where we have stopped along the way. If would be nice to have this as an option in software. Cheers !!
I always land butt to me even on land. That way my bail manoeuvre is always the same: both sticks fwd. ( the GIC being that route is clear is was the approach path).
Last year in the Tyrolian Alps I let my Mini 3 Pro fly up from our narrow balcony form a small table. Landing was the same. I had the option to switch off the sensors but I decided to land with the sensors on. You can do this easily if you land the M3P sideways, the obstacle avoidance is blind to the sides. Worked like a charm.
Nice Steve love the boat and the scenery my scenery at the moment is the lounge ceiling because of back problems having to lay on the floor.Thanks for the video the Mini 3 pro dose a good job but the FPV was amazing.
Hah. Was just sailing last week with Mini 3 Pro; only dared to use it while anchored and wondered how people recovered their drones after all those sailing drone shots. Did not know about the 'turn it upside down to stop it' trick. Thanks.
Flying from and landing on a boat is not for the faint of heart. I used to do it fairly frequently on my pontoon boat, which had tons more space than the sailboat. The biggest issue is the constant motion, including up and down.
Sv Blackjack is owned by the family that founded the Yacht Club 140+ years ago. It is now a foundation-run boat that does leadership training for teens and young adults. The river at this point is actually called Lac Deschennes ( Rapids Lake)
I use Manual mode when exposing and check the histogram for burn out. I sometimes also turn on the zebra bands for burnout....nothing worse than lost highlights.
Nope. I let the drone recognize my hand as the ground and let the Captain take off as normal. Unlike the ANAFI, there is no "hand launch" move where it knows its being thrown and starts flying like a bird falling out of a nest
Almost all my flights are from boats. A couple of things I can tell you I do to make my life less stressful. I have a catch handle mounted that protrudes directly below my Mavic 2 Pro. Once I'm close to the boat I turn 180 so I can reverse in, line of sight. That way I'm not having to think about left being right etc. I get a good catching altitude set up, then back in to position and catch with my left hand. Always a. relief to get the thing back on board. If you want to see some really clever flying from boats look for Volvo Ocean Race drone footage.
I have a handle for my Air 2. I seldom use it S I find the connecton to the drone not super secure. I have also used monofilament fishing line a d a small weight. That is not really Ll that good as the drone still tries to remain in ins same sport in space you it goes into hyperactive and starts pulling making it harder to capture and turn upside down
As usual, another good and interesting video. I like the verity and different perspectives you are putting in your subject matter. If you had a dingy aboard, you could have operated it from the island with more room for landing. However , the boat is too small to carry a dingy and this problem made the video more interesting.
To add to the pirate theme.... the boat's name is Privateer.....and if you are Cdn, you can probably guess our surname based on a very popular sea shanty....
@@nelsonprivateer7128 Just an ordinary guy in the US. But interesting I had to look it up... Pri~va~teer.... an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping........LOL
Famous Eastern cdn folk singer Stan Rogers recorded " Barret's Privateers" and since our last name is Barrett, our boat name was never in doubt. This is Actially Privateer II.
Privateers carried letters of Marque saying they represented a king or queen and therefore were not pirates. In modern terms mercenaries paid a commission of the resources stolen from an enemy nation's fleet. Letters didn't help them much though. Tended to get hung just the same as pirates though....letter or not
lot harder to land on a racing shell, I mean a mens rowing single while rowing sessions. RTH does not work, the drone does not want to land cause it recognices water as unsafe spot. Only on the very last seconds cm above the deck it recognise the hull as safe spot. We use it for training purpose as a follow me flying camera but the DJI are not that good for that compared to the skydio and the beacon. But that is even harder to land and has far less flight time. So take a canoe and try it again cause it has a bigger deck then a single, a rowing boat.
Yeah, It can really be tricky to land a drone on a boat.😅 I also have done that. It was a moving boat on a river. But at first I thought it was hard to land. But if you have a steady hand and you match the speed of the boat then you just pick your drone out of the air.🤗
Your FPV drone is a whoop so its actually possible to fly forward into a net to catch it or fly into the cabin and cut motors? 😅 the prop guards will prevent injury or damage
Interested to see this video as the most use our Mini2 gets is on our boat. That sunshade did not do you any favours on your bil's yacht as the cockpit is about the only realistic place you can land - it also has the advantage of having coamings round it meaning that if things go pear shaped your precious aircraft won't go over the side. I've only had one dodgy landing out of many and no damage was caused. There are also only two hazards in this area - the topping lift (keeps boom up) & the back stay (keeps mast up) and it you move the boom to the side and secure it then you will end up with a Mini2 sized entrance down into the cockpit where I place a drone helipad thing.
Just lost a Mini 4 Pro to a sailboat and medium strong wind. I didn't turn off obstacle avoidance, and I didn't know that starting in Cine mode does NOT work. It will default to Normal mode, which made the controls that much faster and harder to fine-tune to the wind and moving sailboat. I tried to force-land it on the front part and in the last second it touched a rope, bouncing off to the sea and sinking instantly. It was crazy how fast it sunk. I'm pretty sour about the fact that the Cine switch isn't respected. Had I had slightly slower movement, I'd be able to catch it by hand.
Question: How much weight do you think the Mini 3 Pro could hold while using either the regular battery or the Plus battery? I'm guessing not much, but do you think it'd be enough for an anti-collision strobe and remote-controlled landing light?
I had to land with a mavic on a sailboat during sailing on open water. This was really difficult because of the lines everywhere and the waves. The trick is that I have to shut off all the sensors of the drone. I need five or six tries and a second man that catch the drone by hand. But it work and all were happy about it.
Damn I hate those rapids, like the ones near Britannia Yacht Club as well as stupid village powerplant closer to downtown, splitting Ottawa river and making boating to east end impossible...
Yep..... but I guess BYC only exist because of the rapids as it was a failed hydro electric plant from the late 1800s. No rapids, no plant, no BYC. I always tell people we can go down the rapids..... once. :)
Love sailboats even though we have only owned speed boats and a pontoon boat when the kids were growing up. I watch several sailing and camping channels and all use drones for great artistic video. Canada may be different, but in the US, we call the free downwind sail a spinnaker...
I do carry a spinnaker as well for downwind but the sail we used in this video is a very interesting one. Wire luff and cut more like a genoa so it allows to come up on the wind but also back down to beam +
My trick for landing a FPV on a boat? Requires a 2nd person to hold a large beach towel open, and "catching" the quad. Works great. P.S. A "motor" is electric, a "engine" is gas\diesel.
Hi Steve, I also tried something a bit similar in January, and I brought my Mavic 2 zoom along on a Yacht trip. The yacht was a bit wider and thankfully had no sails and was motor powered, although I like to fly with obstacle avoidance on, I found whilst I could take off, the obstacle avoidance did not allow me to land back on, so landing I had to hand catch it. The sea was calm however Because the location was beneath aircraft flight path I decided it was wise to remain low.
Not on this flight. For flights over water you need a POLARIZED filter. Some POLARIZED filters also come with an ND coating. FREEWELL Filters usually have these.
He captain drone. I've watched your channel for a while. I live in Ottawa as well. Do you have a shop? I've got a couple questions about my mini 3 pro Cheers
@@seasparrow7427 just because I'm an anime warrior and on top of that last part was inspired by Yami.l had to think of something cool to call my channel.
Hi from Toronto, where did you get that float "jacket" for the drone. I need it for my Mavic air 2 . Talking about fpv , you could have got dji Avata fpv and it can hover and you can catch it just like mini .
The link to the float jacket should be below the video. Please send me the video of you catching an AVATA on a boat out on a lake... now that would be interesting to watch.
The SPLASHDRONE 4 would be great for this except I quickly learned that people with SAILBOATS only wish to hear the sound of the wind and water and not the buzzing of a drone.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 my brother has a rib boat which is pretty loud, so I'm hoping to get a Spry+ later this year to chase him. Thanks for your reviews on said products very helpful.
So where are the drone shots circling the boat with the gennaker up? Then try to handfly and catch the drone at speed alone. I do this all the time, so this video was somewhat underwhelming.🤣
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yes you did say you need to keep ‘moving forward’, so that tells me you couldn’t really hover? Seems odd a drone that can’t hover but I get it. I’ve watched some of the races of little drones and it looks like they fly into a net at the end of their race course.
@@Nortonsnorton An FPV drone is very different from a beginner GPS camera drone. The pilot is in full control of keeping it in the air with no assistance so both hands remain on the joysticks and must be operated together in a fashion that keeps the drone flying. Secondly, an FPV drone has the camera pointing at a 45 degree angle up so that when it flies forward at high speed the camera is then looking forward. This means if you attempt to hover, you are then looking up at the sky which is whey everyone in the FPV hobby flies forward when approaching landing and hovers for less than a second upon landing. An FPV pilot wearing FPV goggles can't hand catch an FPV drone out of the air... extremely difficult to do.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yeah sorry I do not have that experience with that type of drone. Thanks for explaining it, it looks easy enough watching someone else but so many differences. I fly the Typhoon H and with GPS off I found out it is very hairy, I can’t imagine doing a hand grab without the GPS on. Thanks for pointing those differences out.
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This is how pirates got their hook.
Hilarious!
Yet another Captain drone classic. Loved the shots and also love that it shows all the possibilities for drone mishaps when using on a sailboat. It's stuff someone may not consider until trying to land back aboard. Especially FPV.
Excellent Video and Excellent Flying! Beautiful Area. Thank You.
Captain Drone Always working! Nice to see you spending some quality time with family. Thanks for the video!
i have three drones on my collection now. planning to buy dji se.
thank you so much captain . your a great inspirations. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love the little mini 3 life jacket.
I just moved to Ottawa a year ago (today actually). I had a mavic mini at home, but just got the mini 4 pro so this is really neat to see. This is great, as I’m still looking for great flying areas haha. Thanks!
"...... as you can see, Nelson's boat is quite small..." Them's fighting words Steve !! :)
For drone landings, without hand catching, it does not meet the DJI Care refresh policy of “the pilot made an excellent decision but unfortunately the drone was to blame” :-)
Thank you, I've been searching For confirmation the upside-down trick would work on a DJI MINI.
I'm sailing soon and face this exact problem
I'm glad you brought the Mini 3 Pro in before those super strong winds came in as that would have really up the ante with the landing / hand grab! I'm enjoying my Mini 3 Pro, but I have absolutely no plans of taking off or landing on a boat... I'll leave that to professionals such as yourself, Steve!
I always love spotting all of the familiar locations in your videos. I have shot a few across the river on the Aylmer side.
Hey neighbour!
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I have to say that I was quite disappointed when I cycled all the way out to Petrie Island last week and didn’t see you there 😃 I even slowed down by a jeep to see if you were inside. The guy inside wasn’t impressed!
@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa Ha ha, yup I don't visit Petrie much in the summer as it is filled with many families and I like to fly in areas where their are less humans. Humans are not only obstacles to any type of drone but also curious people and they all want to distract a pilot with questions.
Good one Cpt.Drone, that looked like alot of fun. Benny
Looks like you-all had a good day.
Nice sail boat, for sure. I hand catch my camera drones quite often. Usually just make sure the bottom sensor sees my hand and bring it down.
Thanks for the tour CD! Looked like a great day out on the water.
Aye! Aye! Smooth sailing and smooth landing in there!
Great video as usual Steve👍. Couldn’t you just turn off the sensors and catch it from the cockpit of the boat when your tied up at the marina?
I should watch entire video from the beginning before commenting! Then I would have seen that you had two drones! Love your channel. 😎👍
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Good catch right there! You guys make it look easy but I love the Mini 3 too much to risk trying this! Enjoyed this refreshing content and all the details you put in here.
Thanks for watching!
this video is amazing … Captain thank you for sharing your adventure with your skills flying drone
Always good information
Great video. Really nice. Love how you actually acknowledged the rigging. Sluggo 😎
well done captain. awsome video as always.
This is actually such a GREAT idea for a drone video.
This is one of the toughest challenges with piloting a remote aircraft
Wow, that is a tight landing on a sailboat with all that rigging and the sails. I routinely drone on the Ottawa River too but from a power boat with a landing spot at the front of the boat. My "formula" for successful recovery is as follows:
1- Just before you land, update the home point to where you are (DJI should have a software option where the drone "follows the controller" for continuous updating of the home point " automatically, but doesn't)
2- Then activate return to home. When you actually see the drone coming down, cancel the RTH. Then switch to Tripod mode and turn off accident avoidance. Then slowly and carefully bring it to home on the landing pad goin down and forward at the same time. This IS easier said than done, but with extra care, I find it works as well as anything else I've found to land the drone. It must be done slowly and carefully as the boat is continually drifting. The Tripod mode gives you maximum control at slow speeds..
This works for me using the Air 2 and Zoom. Doing this, I have lost my fear of flying over water......
Very pleasant video to watch btw...thank you as always for your efforts
Thank you for sharing your method. Considering you have had success, means it works well.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Well enough if one is very careful. I really think that DJI should have the option for the home point to follow the drone.
We often do videos where one person drives while the second manoevers the drone to take shots along certain historical routes (like the Opeongo trail north of Ottawa). Just before we land, we always update the home point to at least bring the drone close to where we have stopped along the way. If would be nice to have this as an option in software.
Cheers !!
I always land butt to me even on land. That way my bail manoeuvre is always the same: both sticks fwd. ( the GIC being that route is clear is was the approach path).
Last year in the Tyrolian Alps I let my Mini 3 Pro fly up from our narrow balcony form a small table. Landing was the same. I had the option to switch off the sensors but I decided to land with the sensors on. You can do this easily if you land the M3P sideways, the obstacle avoidance is blind to the sides. Worked like a charm.
Loved the vid, drones and boats such a great combination for a visual feast. 👍👍👍
Should have taken the underwater drone 😁
Beautiful video Steve !!
Many thanks!
You have a great partner being able to catch your drone. LOL. Thanks Don
Yes, Nelson did a great job.
Woohh That's definitely great and awesome sir
Nice Steve love the boat and the scenery my scenery at the moment is the lounge ceiling because of back problems having to lay on the floor.Thanks for the video the Mini 3 pro dose a good job but the FPV was amazing.
Amazing pics
Thanks Cap and Nelson. Nice going on the landing. Need some skills to land on a moving boat even if it's anchored!!!
Good catch!
That was great
Excellent flight from the sailing boat, Steve and Nelson. Thank you. Greetings from Montreal!
Our pleasure!
Great hand landing with your DJI Mini 3 on the front end of a 28.3 ft. sailboat. Glad that you have great flying skills.
Hah. Was just sailing last week with Mini 3 Pro; only dared to use it while anchored and wondered how people recovered their drones after all those sailing drone shots. Did not know about the 'turn it upside down to stop it' trick. Thanks.
That was fun!
Flying from and landing on a boat is not for the faint of heart. I used to do it fairly frequently on my pontoon boat, which had tons more space than the sailboat. The biggest issue is the constant motion, including up and down.
Amen to that, brother
Wow, that is a HUGE river! It's more like a lake. I noticed the square-rigged boat there. That's totally cool!
Sv Blackjack is owned by the family that founded the Yacht Club 140+ years ago. It is now a foundation-run boat that does leadership training for teens and young adults.
The river at this point is actually called Lac Deschennes ( Rapids Lake)
That must have been a fun day!
Yes, big thanks to Nelson & Kim for taking us out.
I use Manual mode when exposing and check the histogram for burn out. I sometimes also turn on the zebra bands for burnout....nothing worse than lost highlights.
Great video. I'd like to use my Mini 3 Pro to film under sail. Please do a similar video under those conditions.
Great video! That was the place to take your swellpro splash drone.
It would have done great, but it is rather noisy and sailboaters have the “ librarian gene “ and prefer the quiet of the wind & water.
That was cool...
Ha.. when u said 3,2,1 release and it wasn't ready... had visions of Nelson just dropping it when you said release 🤣
Yes, I agree. Glad Nelson didn't toss it at that point.
Nope. I let the drone recognize my hand as the ground and let the Captain take off as normal. Unlike the ANAFI, there is no "hand launch" move where it knows its being thrown and starts flying like a bird falling out of a nest
i love you videos nothing too fancy . love from ph
Very cool my friend I always thought you were from California some where. Canada man. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
That was incredible! Great catch! I just got a drone and am still learning. So I’m tipping my hat to you!!
Great adventure Cap. I got to learn a little more about Canada
Excellent sailing ⛵️! Another great episode #stayepic
Almost all my flights are from boats. A couple of things I can tell you I do to make my life less stressful. I have a catch handle mounted that protrudes directly below my Mavic 2 Pro. Once I'm close to the boat I turn 180 so I can reverse in, line of sight. That way I'm not having to think about left being right etc. I get a good catching altitude set up, then back in to position and catch with my left hand. Always a. relief to get the thing back on board. If you want to see some really clever flying from boats look for Volvo Ocean Race drone footage.
Excellent!
I have a handle for my Air 2. I seldom use it S I find the connecton to the drone not super secure.
I have also used monofilament fishing line a d a small weight. That is not really Ll that good as the drone still tries to remain in ins same sport in space you it goes into hyperactive and starts pulling making it harder to capture and turn upside down
As usual, another good and interesting video. I like the verity and different perspectives you are putting in your subject matter. If you had a dingy aboard, you could have operated it from the island with more room for landing. However , the boat is too small to carry a dingy and this problem made the video more interesting.
We do carry a dinghy on our foredeck occasionally but it a dinky dinghy :)
Very good video Steve
Thanks 👍
Great job thanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Master Skill ❤
Great video, looks like a fun day, but boy plucking that drone out of the air, scary!!
VERY COOL VIDEO
Well done. Love this video, thanks.
Great video. I am curious to know how you had your RTH settings set up for a task like this. In the event you lose signal.
Good morning cool video
Interesting video.
Asome
Ahoy, Me Hearties! Steve, Nikki , Nelson and Kim.....Well shiver me timbers. That sure was a fine video matey......
To add to the pirate theme.... the boat's name is Privateer.....and if you are Cdn, you can probably guess our surname based on a very popular sea shanty....
@@nelsonprivateer7128 Just an ordinary guy in the US. But interesting I had to look it up... Pri~va~teer.... an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping........LOL
Famous Eastern cdn folk singer Stan Rogers recorded " Barret's Privateers" and since our last name is Barrett, our boat name was never in doubt. This is Actially Privateer II.
Privateers carried letters of Marque saying they represented a king or queen and therefore were not pirates. In modern terms mercenaries paid a commission of the resources stolen from an enemy nation's fleet. Letters didn't help them much though. Tended to get hung just the same as pirates though....letter or not
@@nelsonprivateer7128 Interesting......Thank you
you can land on deck if there is no wind, but need to be a flat surface
Great video 👍🏻
Thank you!
lot harder to land on a racing shell, I mean a mens rowing single while rowing sessions. RTH does not work, the drone does not want to land cause it recognices water as unsafe spot.
Only on the very last seconds cm above the deck it recognise the hull as safe spot. We use it for training purpose as a follow me flying camera but the DJI are not that good for that compared to the skydio and the beacon. But that is even harder to land and has far less flight time.
So take a canoe and try it again cause it has a bigger deck then a single, a rowing boat.
On small boats like a canoe, rowing boat, kayak, then hand catch is the safest.
Nice cap!
Yeah, It can really be tricky to land a drone on a boat.😅 I also have done that. It was a moving boat on a river. But at first I thought it was hard to land. But if you have a steady hand and you match the speed of the boat then you just pick your drone out of the air.🤗
Your FPV drone is a whoop so its actually possible to fly forward into a net to catch it or fly into the cabin and cut motors? 😅 the prop guards will prevent injury or damage
Interested to see this video as the most use our Mini2 gets is on our boat. That sunshade did not do you any favours on your bil's yacht as the cockpit is about the only realistic place you can land - it also has the advantage of having coamings round it meaning that if things go pear shaped your precious aircraft won't go over the side. I've only had one dodgy landing out of many and no damage was caused. There are also only two hazards in this area - the topping lift (keeps boom up) & the back stay (keeps mast up) and it you move the boom to the side and secure it then you will end up with a Mini2 sized entrance down into the cockpit where I place a drone helipad thing.
Great input from a boater. Thanks for sharing.
Just lost a Mini 4 Pro to a sailboat and medium strong wind. I didn't turn off obstacle avoidance, and I didn't know that starting in Cine mode does NOT work. It will default to Normal mode, which made the controls that much faster and harder to fine-tune to the wind and moving sailboat. I tried to force-land it on the front part and in the last second it touched a rope, bouncing off to the sea and sinking instantly. It was crazy how fast it sunk. I'm pretty sour about the fact that the Cine switch isn't respected. Had I had slightly slower movement, I'd be able to catch it by hand.
Just use a fishing net to catch mine. Works even when sailing
Looking for a video of a moving boat landing
Question: How much weight do you think the Mini 3 Pro could hold while using either the regular battery or the Plus battery? I'm guessing not much, but do you think it'd be enough for an anti-collision strobe and remote-controlled landing light?
Not much.... shouldn't make a difference of those lights were designed to run on the mini 3 pro
The more weight you add to GPS drones the less accurate they fly. It’s all about trial and error.
I had to land with a mavic on a sailboat during sailing on open water. This was really difficult because of the lines everywhere and the waves. The trick is that I have to shut off all the sensors of the drone. I need five or six tries and a second man that catch the drone by hand. But it work and all were happy about it.
I bought a landing skid for my mini pro 4. So much easier to grab the drone
Damn I hate those rapids, like the ones near Britannia Yacht Club as well as stupid village powerplant closer to downtown, splitting Ottawa river and making boating to east end impossible...
Yep..... but I guess BYC only exist because of the rapids as it was a failed hydro electric plant from the late 1800s. No rapids, no plant, no BYC. I always tell people we can go down the rapids..... once. :)
@@nelsonprivateer7128 I did not know that.
Though I'd trade BYC for a passable piece of river!
Love sailboats even though we have only owned speed boats and a pontoon boat when the kids were growing up. I watch several sailing and camping channels and all use drones for great artistic video.
Canada may be different, but in the US, we call the free downwind sail a spinnaker...
I do carry a spinnaker as well for downwind but the sail we used in this video is a very interesting one. Wire luff and cut more like a genoa so it allows to come up on the wind but also back down to beam +
My trick for landing a FPV on a boat? Requires a 2nd person to hold a large beach towel open, and "catching" the quad. Works great. P.S. A "motor" is electric, a "engine" is gas\diesel.
Is that a nautical standard or a general standard?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 General. And the towel catch really does work great.
Is that a light house/station on the island?
It is a beacon so that boats avoid the island at night & fog.
Of all the days to foul the flying sail hoist...... the day CD has his head gopro filming :)
Considering the wind conditions, you did well and stayed dry.
Kiddos to the club for flying the Ukraine flag!
I liked the little rapids on the river.
Great video Capt!
Hi Steve, I also tried something a bit similar in January, and I brought my Mavic 2 zoom along on a Yacht trip. The yacht was a bit wider and thankfully had no sails and was motor powered, although I like to fly with obstacle avoidance on, I found whilst I could take off, the obstacle avoidance did not allow me to land back on, so landing I had to hand catch it. The sea was calm however Because the location was beneath aircraft flight path I decided it was wise to remain low.
Boat landings can be nerve racking for sure
I don't even notice your video finished still enjoying watching , are you from CANADA ? I thought you are from UK
Yes, Canada is home base.
Hello,do you know if an ND filter for your 3 pro would have helped with the contrast of the whiteness of the boat with the darkness of the sea?
Definitely not an ND FILTER as that is for shutter and not exposure. A polarized filter may have helped if at the correct angle.
Do you use ND filters? I have been considering getting some. The footage is very smooth! You make me want to move to Canada.
Not on this flight. For flights over water you need a POLARIZED filter. Some POLARIZED filters also come with an ND coating. FREEWELL Filters usually have these.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 you are a treasure to the hobby, sir!
@@v-loss5658 Thank you kindly
PTSD of returning my Spark to a pontoon boat. Sad day.
I've had an idea what abou flying an fpv drone into a net on a stick
Would have to be a BIG net, and one that would not cause the FPV drone to bounce out due to force of impact.
Attaching a strap to a drone can help with capture
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He captain drone. I've watched your channel for a while. I live in Ottawa as well. Do you have a shop? I've got a couple questions about my mini 3 pro
Cheers
Sorry, no shop
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I own HFT donuts in Almonte. Stop by sometime and say hi......
Cheers
@@blackmax222Great! I will keep that in mind.
Can the DJI Mini3-Pro be used with the DJI N1 controller with a TriplTek 8 Pro tablet?
Yes... The old remote for the MINI 2 which is also available for the MINI 3 has been often used by viewers with the TRIPLTEK tablet.
How does it feel to have a nice flight on a nice yacht in a nice sea?👍 As a drone man, I envy you and you're so cool!🤩
Thank you
Why do u call yourself captain drone?
The same exact reason you call yourself AnimeWarrior Pharaoh
Because Major, Colonel and General Drone were all taken?
He's probably the most knowledgeable person on four prop hobby drones out here.
Why do you call yourself Anime warrior Pharaoh?
@@seasparrow7427 you're right, thank you
@@seasparrow7427 just because I'm an anime warrior and on top of that last part was inspired by Yami.l had to think of something cool to call my channel.
Hi from Toronto, where did you get that float "jacket" for the drone. I need it for my Mavic air 2 . Talking about fpv , you could have got dji Avata fpv and it can hover and you can catch it just like mini .
The link to the float jacket should be below the video. Please send me the video of you catching an AVATA on a boat out on a lake... now that would be interesting to watch.
So, did you land the FPV drone on the ground and go retrieve it?
He landed in the parking lot just fwd of our bow
Correct. Landed before we launched.
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Looks like a job for a Swellpro lol.
The SPLASHDRONE 4 would be great for this except I quickly learned that people with SAILBOATS only wish to hear the sound of the wind and water and not the buzzing of a drone.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 my brother has a rib boat which is pretty loud, so I'm hoping to get a Spry+ later this year to chase him. Thanks for your reviews on said products very helpful.
So where are the drone shots circling the boat with the gennaker up? Then try to handfly and catch the drone at speed alone. I do this all the time, so this video was somewhat underwhelming.🤣
You must be a pro!
You do it the same way we always do it, by a hand grab!
Ahhh…. But I didn’t do it alone… not on this boat. It could be done by one person, just slightly trickier.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yes you did say you need to keep ‘moving forward’, so that tells me you couldn’t really hover? Seems odd a drone that can’t hover but I get it. I’ve watched some of the races of little drones and it looks like they fly into a net at the end of their race course.
@@Nortonsnorton An FPV drone is very different from a beginner GPS camera drone. The pilot is in full control of keeping it in the air with no assistance so both hands remain on the joysticks and must be operated together in a fashion that keeps the drone flying. Secondly, an FPV drone has the camera pointing at a 45 degree angle up so that when it flies forward at high speed the camera is then looking forward. This means if you attempt to hover, you are then looking up at the sky which is whey everyone in the FPV hobby flies forward when approaching landing and hovers for less than a second upon landing. An FPV pilot wearing FPV goggles can't hand catch an FPV drone out of the air... extremely difficult to do.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yeah sorry I do not have that experience with that type of drone. Thanks for explaining it, it looks easy enough watching someone else but so many differences.
I fly the Typhoon H and with GPS off I found out it is very hairy, I can’t imagine doing a hand grab without the GPS on. Thanks for pointing those differences out.