[AMG]

The sailboat on your third picture is the 37 m Beaugeste, with Canadian flag since several years. Built by Brooke Yachts in 1989 as Beaupré for Jon Bannenberg, who was also the designer together with Ron Holland. A very nice yacht that I know pretty well...

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by AMG

The sailboat on your third picture is the 37 m Beaugeste, with Canadian flag since several years. Built by Brooke Yachts in 1989 as Beaupré for Jon Bannenberg, who was also the designer together with Ron Holland. A very nice yacht that I know pretty well...

Thanks very much AMG, She was here at the marina about a week and a half ago and i saved the pic when she was departing. Off course i did not know how to post the pic untill now.

[YachtNews]

Does anyone have the ability to make out the yacht in this snap shot? The Classic looking vessel on the Starboard side of Fox Harb'r... It is only a bow show though..

[Kevin]

yachtluver, when you're resizing the pics you can make them quite a bit bigger. What I could suggest is getting an image resizer program off download.com and then set it to shrink the images you save to 640 pixels wide. I have one at home, but I forget what it's actually called. I'll check this evening and let you know. It works great, really simple and fast. You just input the max size you want and it does the rest. Then you can just upload the pics as attachments here, no prob.

[Kevin]

Here's what we can see right now, a larger view of the yacht you asked about, resized to 640 pixels wide.

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Here's what we can see right now, a larger view of the yacht you asked about, resized to 640 pixels wide.

LOL, Kevin, well thanks for the rezsizing. Remember i am still pretty new to this editing pics and stuff. However, probably why it comes out so small is because i am watching the kb size. The forum stipulates that pics should be under 100kb? right? and that one i posted was 99.8kb.. So i thik i was just trying to stay under the rules..

[Kevin]

BMPs format has to be under 100.... but Jpgs can be up to 200kb. The one I just posted was 132 I think, well under the limit. I'll write up some proper instructions for you when I get home this evening and have the program in front of me.

[YachtForum]

Thanks for helping Kevin.

Ron, the sizes stipulated in the "Manage Attachments" window are somewhat contradictory. I have set the file "size" for 200kb, however this would still allow huge images to be uploaded. There is a big difference between "File Size" and "Image Size". They are two separate things!

There's a reason I do this...

Image sizes for the forums need to be 640 pixels wide or less. Otherwise, many viewers will have to scroll sideways. For features, I publish at 720 to 800 pixels because I developed a custom format that removes the normal post garbage like, screen name, number of posts, location and gender of your first unborn. This leaves a little more space for larger images.

I have included "Directions On Navigating" YF at the top of the General Yachting Discussion. These directions are fairly concise. One thing I'm adamant about is using .jpg's. Please convert any .bmp images to this format. Just open the image in Microsoft's "Windows Picture Viewer" and save it as a .jpg. Because of future site development plans, I like the compression characteristics of .jpg's.

Now... the reason we allow larger images to be uploaded (in the Manage Attachments window) is because of the difficulty experienced by newbies trying to navigate their own hard drive, find the image, attach it and hit the submit button. If they receive the "File Too Large" window, they get frustrated and I get e-mails with dozens of questions on how to do this, what software to use, how to use said software and what's the best place to eat on the water in Lauderdale. In short, it is MUCH faster for me, or for Kevin to edit the image.

For our regular crew who post often, we need them to be up to speed, sorta speak, because editing all the images would become a full time job. By allowing larger images, we make it easier for newbies who may become easily dismayed. We want them to enjoy their stay at YF, so we make the extra effort to accommodate them.

[MedRascal]

Originally Posted by yachtluver

Does anyone have the ability to make out the yacht in this snap shot? The Classic looking vessel on the Starboard side of Fox Harb'r... It is only a bow show though..

Attachment 16492

The bow in the photo shoud be the M/Y "Mary-Jean" (ex-Shanti, ex-Shireen)

Length : 164.85 ft / 50.25 m
Beam : 27.50 ft / 8.40 m
Draught : 8.90 ft / 2.70 m
Shipyard : Campanella, ITA
Year : 1981
Refit : 1993 / 1999 / 2005

http://yachts.monacoeye.com/yachtsby...aryjean01.html

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by MedRascal

The bow in the photo shoud be the M/Y "Mary-Jean" (ex-Shanti, ex-Shireen)

Length : 164.85 ft / 50.25 m
Beam : 27.50 ft / 8.40 m
Draught : 8.90 ft / 2.70 m
Shipyard : Campanella, ITA
Year : 1981
Refit : 1993 / 1999 / 2005

http://yachts.monacoeye.com/yachtsby...aryjean01.html

Thanks Med, long time no post though.. did a rogue wave hit you?

[MedRascal]

Originally Posted by yachtluver

Thanks Med, long time no post though.. did a rogue wave hit you?

Yeap... I'm back in town!

[YachtNews]

How do you convert the BMP to a JPEG?

By the way, Mary Jean has left and another yacht is in its place.

[Kevin]

When you save the image from the webcam page it's already a .jpg so there's no need to convert anything. Now, when you resize, if you use a program like THIS ONE it won't change the format so when you start with the saved jpg you'll end up with a jpg.

Sorry I didn't post that link sooner... I've been busy at it totally slipped my mind. The program is really simple and easy to use (and it works in batches too, which is very handy). Check it out, you'll see how easy it is.

[YachtNews]

Here is a side on view of the Slips at the megayacht berths here at Port St. Charles. The Destination Fox Harbour is right up next to the camera.. so close that you might not realise. However, you can see her Satrboard spreader and the courtesy flag. A couple of slips across from her starboard side is a smaller sloop that i do not recognise.. anyone have any ideas?

[YachtNews]

Here is that unidentified yacht again, she moved one slip across. There is also another pretty small motoryacht about 80 feet long berthed at the last slip.http://www.portstcharles.com/webcam4_pop.cfm