WOW!!!! THOSE Vids ROCK!

You can mount the Oregon or similar on the spin pole or a winsurfer mast out the front to cover half the boat then just work out which side most of the action is, so you wont bother to tape your downwind run in a triangle but will tape the screaming reach standing on the stern.
regards

Brian's videos are really well done. If any of the rest of you are sitting out the winter, he does sell them. I got a couple a few years ago. I still enjoy watching them! Great customer service too!

Here's some mast top footage:

http://www.formula16.org/videos/zandvoort1.mov

or

http://www.formula16.org/videos/zandvoort1.wmv

(same video, different format)

Mount it on the front of the mast with a wide angle lens and you get a pretty good view on both tacks.

Here's some spin pole footage:

http://www.formula16.org/videos/mumbles.mov

Again, wide angle lens so you can see the crew on trapeze.

These are both done with a helmet cam wired to a hard drive video recorder (the second is done with a particularly cheap and nasty recorder which got replaced). I keep the recorder in the tramp pocket, which allows you to turn it on and off easily.

Paul