Yachts in Port St. Charles Marina

Hi guys,
As a favor, can you save a photo of the webcam and post in the thread instead of just posting the link to the cam? I check this thread every few days, but when I do I don't see what you're talking about since the yachts have left or the webcam angle has changed. Today, I see the beach and the forward roller on some sailboat. Or am I missing something else? Thanks.

Yachtluver, when I resize photos to post here, I open them with MS Paint, go to Image on the top menu, click on Stretrch/Skew option and enter numbers less than 100 for the horizontal and vertical percentages in the top section (stretch). I usually use a percent of 30 for each, then click okay (you'll have to test that since your original photos may be larger/smaller than mine). I then save the file under another name, protecting the original photo. Then you can upload the newly saved photo to the threads. I figure everyone should have Paint on their PC's. Many folks use other tools, which is fine.
Hope that helps.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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/yachtsbysize/pages/maryjean01.html