Catamaran sailing DVD

Have you had a chance to view it .If so what are your thoughts.Is it applicable to all cat designs or just boat specific,i.e tonado, F-18,A-cat.

I am interested in the DVD, but just to be cynical, the seller is the same person who made the first post. Anyone else here seen this?

I am also interested and noticed noticed the same. I also noticed that they only have "feedback" from one ebay user. Not a lot of feedback considering the cost.

Does that make me cynical as well?

Bill

No it makes you observant, just like me. Maybe if He ? could put up some examples on HIS web site so we could take a look....

Looks like it is advertised on the French A Class web site too..... Looks legit.

http://www.afcca.org/article.php?id_article=79

Also on the A Class forum

http://p078.ezboard.com/faclasscatamaranforumfrm2.showMessage?topicID=86.topic

Looks like you can also order here from Multihulls World

http://www.multicoques-mag.com/us/bouticnew.php

Of course, i'm the seller and the announcer and i dont try to mask it. I 've been working on this DVD during three years and i'm quite proud of the job... i had contact with really nice people.., Glenn Asby, M.Booth, D. bundock have been wonderfull. It was really a pleasure to realize this dvd and i hope it will be a pleausure for you to use it. We started to sell it in europe since one week...It's the very beginning, and we do not have yet an international distributor, that's why we had the idea to use e bay...You can download little parts of the dvd here : http://tillard.georges1.free.fr/videos/

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Looks like you can also order here from Multihulls World

http://www.multicoques-mag.com/us/bouticnew.php
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It seems well done, but the second clip I looked at (Gavin Colby)the commentator talks about raising the dagger-boards at the leeward mark, even though you do see the crew lowering them. Maybe the English version should be checked over

I know expressed some initial doubt...but I took the plunge and bought it one from Ebay.

I'll let everyone know how it turns out.

Bill

I bought a copy to.Also will let you know how it is

I bought one copy and it arrived today!!
It seams to be a good DVD!I like the multi-angle shoots. For somebody like me that is almost a beginner it is a very good source for improvement. I hope that there are more dvd´s like this.
Later!

Enjoy the Azores winds....

It is worth every Euro.

A shot load of on the water footage with a professional steady cam.

Nice interviews with a few big names in cat sailing and it lays a good foundation to improve your sailing skills on.

It is the best thing since Rick White's sailing for the 90's if you are a novice or intermediate sailor.

For the good sailors aout there (and that means only 20 % of all sailors) this allow you to steal some tricks of the Ashby's, Booth's, Bundock's, Anderson's, Boulogne's out there. Afo course the further you are already the harder it is to find new stuff that benefits you however this DVD does a good job of that. And of course at a certainly level you can only learn from yourself and having a coach. It shows that as well on the DVD and so gives in my opinion a very good picture of cat sailing from novice to professional sailor.

I have absoutely no regrest I bought the DVD. And for all sailors without good fleets nearby to learn from I think this DVD is a must-have next to Rick's sailing for the 90's. Mind you I have some alternatives views here an there but these points are only personal, particular design related and way beyond what you need to know as a novice and internmediate sailors. Actually the DVD underlines at several instances that methods and sailing modes can and do differ between crews and designs and that you should find what suits you and your design bests. It gives good ways to start and later find you own personal preference.

The DVD focusses on Tornado, F18, A-cat and KL 15.5 sailing. But very much in a general sense. Meaning the KL 15.5 stuff is completely general and can be easily transposed on any other design. So too for much of the other boats although you'll learns as wel from the differences between A's and F18's.

The DVD also put a very large focus on spinnaker sailing which I think is good.

I watched the DVD for 3 hours today and still haven't seen all or accessed all topics.

Comes in a nice package

I'm very impressed !

Wouter

Recieved mine yesterday.Very impressive.Only had a chance to view some of it but it is very well done,nice work.Well worth the money

Can you still get it on e-bay?

Happy you appreciate !
available on ebay here

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl... =6356930992&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Ordered, how long does shipping take. Great Lakes. Thanks

Oh man, this is great! GT, thanks for doing this. Will plan to order shortly. On top of some really cool sailing sequences the soundtrack is top notch!

Rick, why not carry it in the CatSailor Store?

Sail fast, Tom G

Ok I'm trying to buy this thing and as soon as I hit the commit to buy button everything goes to French. I don't speak very good French but I fill everything out anyway but it will not take my phone number. The best I can tell is the computer thinks I live in France and so the number doesn't make sense. So I try to go through the whole thing all over again but I get a warning telling me that I have already committed to buy one of these DVD’s and that I will be ordering a second one if I hit Commit to buy again. Well I don’t want two of them. So what’s the deal?

Sign up for a paypal account (don't bother doing the 'verified account' thing) - then when the French paypal mumbo jumbo appears while buying the DVD enter your paypal id (email address) and password on the right hand side of the window. *Whew* - back to english and you can complete your transaction.

Looking forward to seeing the film - I bought my copy today.

Took mine about a week to get here
(Great Lakes area)

I apparently missed that button...fed that site info three times and was disconnected. ABout an hours later I got a receipt???

thom

Why not use multihullmagazine route ?

Somewhere in this thread a link to multihullmag is provided as they run this DVD as well. I did it that way and it came out fine. No signing on to Ebay etc

Wouter

Right here guys

http://www.multicoques-mag.com/us/bouticnew.php (Multihull World Magazine)

Of course it's possible and even, recommended to use the multihullmagazine route...there is no problem, it's maybe more easy... the only difference is that when you buy via Ebay, it's a direct way between consumer and producer...and it's quite a big difference for those who have worked hard on the project...but anyway, there is two solutions and each one can choose.
Georges Tillard.

Now the valid ebay adress is here :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl... =6359015422&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I had the same problem ordering the DVD on E-Bay with the form in French. As suggested earlier, using PayPal solved the problem.

I wanted to comment about how good Georges Tillard was to deal with - he answered my e-mails and offered suggestions on how to solve the ordering problems I had. He even mailed the DVD to me before he received confirmation that I had paid for it so that I did not have to wait so long. He is not only legitimate, he is also very customer focused!

I can confirm what Wouter wrote about the DVD - very well executed and much to see. I have not seen everything after about 3.5 hours of viewing and there appears to be something for everyone at all skill levels. I wanted to learn from Glen Ashby how to sail an A class cat well and I am glad to have invested the money; the other info is bonus from my perspective. It is a pretty cheap lesson considering that you have excellent camera work, editing, and production featuring arguably the best sailor in the class. It looks like a huge effort to have produced this DVD! I think this is a DVD that I could view many, many times.

Thanks Georges for making this available to us and for your great customer service.

Mike Fahle
Toledo

Flumpmaster describes it the exact way to do the purchase. Received mine in 8 days through the ebay route.
As far as the DVD goes, English/French toggle, images sharp and content so far helpful and in some instances inspired.