This is from the Active Captain newsletter so some of you may already have seen these. A series of time lapse videos shot during aCapella's great loop cruise. If you haven't been through a river system with locks you might find them interesting. The smooth water videos are pretty good but any kind of waves at all make the video pretty rough and going under some of the low bridges at 700 knots is a bit unnerving. It's not sailing but for those of us in the frozen North it is at least a glimpse of warmer days on the water.

From the new letter:

When we started our Great Loop journey last year, we did something that hadn't been done before - capture the entire Great Loop on video. We mounted a GoPro camera on our flybridge and shot high-def, time-lapse video through every travel day. We've uploaded some segments through the last year but the holidays gave us the time and high bandwidth internet required to upload the huge amount of video. Now they're all available on a new Great Loop Videos with ActiveCaptain channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC98LzPiqnAJEyNYUHTwl0Xg/videos

If you want to see some of the highlights, here are some of our
favorites:

Waterford to Amsterdam, flight of locks on the Erie Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMdCfM8PwM

Clyde to Lyons, a very typical day on the Erie Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcY6Mg-LrXg

Palmyra to Fairport, measuring very low bridges on the Erie Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoYOg9qreKo

Hammond to Joliet, learning to love barges on the Illinois River:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAOvK2fGfU4

Alton to Hoppies, the Mississippi River:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyIXTjS3G84

Bay Springs to Midway, the biggest lock and beautiful river travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvKtZVIkaYw

Dog River to The Wharf, Mobile Bay to the Gulf ICW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZKtcjvLmtA

Port St Joe to Clearwater, 220 nm overnight - scroll past the night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n07gHjt6p4A

Longboat Key to Sarasota, a short hop between two fantastic facilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVa6HrVbx0

Pink Shell to Naples, FLorida west coast cruising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIcotgMbdwY

River Forest LaBelle to Roland Martins, part of the Okeechobee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdvnJT1zco

Cumberland Island to Jekyll Is, part of the Georgia ICW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-u322Bjqzg

Osprey to Barefoot, some of the nicest parts of the AICW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9-EZDuE-c