FIXING MY GOPRO CAMERA MOUNT

 I bought a GoPro HD camera a few months ago and really like it. But, it is so small and light one could easily lose it. Especially if there are sinister Seagulls around:



I have not yet lost the camera but, I did lose one of the  Acorn Cap Nuts

 that holds the camera to a home made GoPro mount I made.

If it happens once it can happen again. So I decided to make it more secure. First I had to find a replacement Acorn Cap nut. It is 5 mm in size.  Look for something that reads M5-.8 on the package. They are also available on  AMAZON

So when I got the replacement nut I secured it with a little super glue:

This should make it pretty secure so it does not come loose again:

WINTERLUDE 2012

I went down to check on the boat recently. It's that time of year that I call the winterlude period after the waltzing Bob Dylan tune of the same name. This year was a rather mild winterlude compared to the winterludes of 2011 and 2010 and even 2009.  So I'm not complaining.  I spent several hours just hanging out an enjoying the unusual winter warmth. I even set up my new GoPro camera and tried a little time lapse shooting from my cockpit view as the tide ran out:

 You know after seeing this video I made sure the camera was Seagull proofed before I started shooting. All in all not a bad way to spend part of winters day.

BOATERS BEWARE OF THIEVES IN THE NIGHT

If you ever have found things mysteriously missing from your boats cockpit the explanation may be fairly simple. I recently ordered a GoPro video camera . While I was researching about the camera online  I came upon this video of a brazen theft by a Seagull:

The GoPro camera weighs about 6 oz with the housing. After seeing this video I won't be leaving it or anything else like keys laying around in the cockpit especially overnight. One thing is for sure though Seagulls are not real good when it comes to making videos, they can steal things pretty quickly.