How Does PowerView Answer the Vespoli Challenge?

Vespoli, USA, the largest and most successful boat builder in the US has just issued a "Boat Speed Challenge" on their website--and they are using the PowerView System.
With Powerview units aboard, Vespoli can go far beyond the tradition "demo row" and let coaches skip the annual ritual of asking the crew "which boat did you like better?" or "did that boat feel fast?"
Instead, the

US Rowing announced today it has partnered with Powerview, a PowerHTV LLC company, to provide coaching tools and equipment leading to and including the 2012 Olympics.

Read the full release here:

http://www.usrowing.org/News_Media/PressReleases/detail.aspx?nws_lKey=94...

PowerView is excited to announce that Vespoli Racing Shells recently acquired the PowerView system and they have just declared a Boat Speed Challenge (www.vespoli.com/vespoli/news/2010/10/14/take-the-boat-speed-challenge/).

They will bring the units and a Vespoli E hull to your boathouse for you to try. Which boat in your boathouse is the powerboat? Who are your power rowers?

Locals in Boston prep for the Charles as only the locals can: racing on their home course, against the best scullers Boston and Cambridge can rally for an early morning row. They call these races the Heads of the Kevin, named for Kevin McDonnell, the long-time Riverside mentor and keeper of the magical HOCR prognostic time standards that lure the most serious pot-hunters out to see how they might fare come the third weekend of October. This year, several scullers and crews took their obsession with the perfect Charles course to a new level--all thanks to Powerview.

You can see us, and the Powerview system in action, in Oklahoma City this weekend. Powerview is a featured presenter at the Kossev Consortium's Rowing Science Seminar being conducted during this year's Head of the Oklahoma Regatta. Powerview, working with coaches John Parker and Jeremy Ivey of the USrowing-OKC Training Center, will kick off the seminar Friday morning with an on-water demonstration of the Powerview system.

We're at the US Rowing Convention in Phoenix, just finished our first day.

Mike Davenport, a coach, leading author on boat mechanics, and rigging guru and someone whom we (and the rest of the rowing community) respect immensely, has blogged about PowerView system.

Mike has some very interesting remarks about PowerView. Please click for Mike Davenport's Max Rigging and read Mike's 12/04/09 blog entry: "Could I have been mistaken for 30 years about how to make a rowing shell fast?"

PowerView released a major software update with a set of customer-requested feature updates to PowerView Comparo video data software, including tools for cropping practices, gauge and course map overlays, and file export capabilities.

PowerView Comparo’s major software release includes the following new features:

• Video data file cropping that gives users the power to clip custom segments from video data outings and save as new outings, retaining perfectly synchronized video and data.

PowerView is a single box multi-camera plug n’ play video data logging system designed to help improve your rowing. With synchronized video, audio and data, PowerView gives you the power to analyze your performance, with visual evidence of how and why you’re excelling and where you can improve.

What’s in a standard PowerView system?

Everything you need for video and data, right out of the package.

• Video data logger box with 2GB SD card

We recommend scheduling about 15 minutes to install a two-camera PowerView system.

Less time - Install time is related to routing and hiding cables (e.g., cameras, microphones, GPS). If you don’t need to hide the cables, you can install the system in about 5 minutes.

More time - If you are carefully routing and securing cables or attaching rigger cameras, allow a bit of extra time.

Quick install primer...

• Install your PowerView system box

We get lots of questions about which camera angles work best so we decided to provide some information that will help.

Q: How does lens size affect distance and field of view?
A: The smaller the lens, the wider the field of view (and shorter distance). The larger the lens, the narrower the field of view (and further distance). The 2.95mm lens produces a much wider angle (150deg approx) than a 6.0 mm focal length lens (120deg approx).

Front View Camera
Suggested lens: 6.0 mm