I made this boom camera mount out of a broken carbon boom. You can get the idea on how it's made in the video. Can any of the more inventive types out there think of a design that allows you to gybe/tack?

Glad you posted this. Ive made the same thing out of a broken boom but was too heavy so adapted a length of a carbon SUP paddle with clamp boom head. Havent tried it yet so was wondering how you went turning around??
Im also going to try it attached to rear of boom to see what it looks like. Nice vid btw.
Cheers,
Larko.

wow, like the angle and design. If a boom can have a 100kg guy hanging off it, it will be super stable with a light gopro as shown in the quality and stability of the footage.

I reckon the design is great, you may just have to get really good at duck gybes and duck tacks

I like the front boom view, but, yeah gybes and tacks... Maybe you could mount the whole bracket above head height, with the camera still looking back but swinging above your head in turns? Dunno... This is why I mounted a bracket at the rear off the boom. See both sides, and you totally forget it's there. I guess it all depends on the view angle you prefer.

I like that boom angle phil, I might do a long extension for the rear view, but make it so it's at head height instead of waist height.

Thinking about it all day, and I reckon duck gybing is my only option. Not sure if I can duck gybe a speed board though:). I'll have a play with different arm angles though, and maybe it is possible to "duck" under the arm when racking, but I'm 196cm so might not be to easy:))

What about building an arm with some L joints to raise the arm so it's out of the way for gybing and coming back down at the end for the camera?

Spent some time thinking about a gybe-able shape, but I guess it's too difficult. Duck gybing is really the only option. Will have to learn this quickly:)

I'm going to turn the arm up side down (so the curve is on the other side and also put a 90 degree elbow on the end to reduce the amount of pole seen on films. Will post a picture ASAP, but for any one else thinking of making one, here's a couple of pictures. It's made with an old broken carbon boom and mast.

i got this tip from Guy Cribb, so it must be good. ;-)

You got the right idea by using a broken boom, but you will also need the curved extension part at the clew end.This will be the mount for the camera and keeps the extension mostly out of frame.

Secure the mast end of the broken 1/2 boom to the clew end of your working boom with hose clamps.

I am just waiting to come across a broken full carbon boom to try it myself.

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[br]I made this boom camera mount out of a broken carbon boom. You can get the idea on how it's made in the video. Can any of the more inventive types out there think of a design that allows you to gybe/tack?

Love that front mount.

I can jybe and tack with mine.

Sorry about bumping an old thread but it took me a while to make a mount and get some wind. I like the camera angle of mark62's mount but as shadow said the tube is in the frame. I used an old boom clamp and some alloy tube and the weight was not a problem for me. Mark62 it looks like you have plenty of luff cutout left there to play with so I think you could slide the mount up the mast a bit and just adjust the angle of the cam. My mount sticks out sideways more that forwards and you can see me adjust it forward early on in the vid as it was obviously to close. I think my mount needs to go forward more like mark62's. That position looks good it just needs the cam mount modified slightly to get the tube out of the shot. for my next mount I'm thinking of going about 18 inches forward and about 12 inches to the side. It will probably look like a Y with a long tail as I eventually want to get a second cam and shoot on both tacks. I had no problem tacking and gybing with my mount it misses my noggin by about 2 inches. I also tend to crouch a little when I gybe which helps.

The straight line footage gets old after a while but the pov for gybes looks great.

P.S. the gear is a tabou speedster 79 and a severne NCX 8.0 metre. The wind was very gusty W/NW 15 to 20 knots.

I made a boom mount out of a FlyMount mount and a piece of aluminium strip. I found that using only the FlyMount on the boom didn't give enough distance, so it's basically an extension of 20 cm. Used some GoPro extensions to get the camera low enough to get the mount out of the frame.

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