You can get a mount from go pro to specifically do this

gopro.com/en/au/

you can also get contour hd mounts as well.

was that at VP today?

Can I suggest you try longer harness lines. You look like your cramped in very close to the boom.

Very good video though. It is interesting watching the sail reacting to the gusts and bumps

The contour HD is a fair bit more expensive, that probably the main reason I ended up with the gopro instead.

For barebones package, I think the contour is about $100 dearer.

Thanks for the tip. Those lines are 30inch as recommended by Matt Pritchard at his clinic recently. He did say though to have a forearms length for harness lines, which 30 inch still isnt enough.

I've just purchased a new 'Surf mount' that sits on the front of the board.
I figure once i've captured a bunch of videos from various angles I can clip them together to produce a fairly reasonable video.

I liked the Contour HD because of its ability to sit properly on the side of helmets (not on top), as i'm also capturing some mountain biking footage.

The new Contour HD will have the ability to stream bluetooth video to your iphone for set up ability. mmm wonder how much that will be

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yeah i'm not interested in 720p. i did some digging. the contourhd is actually wider than the gopro at the max hd resolution. that surprised me. plus you can fit lens kits and filters so you can run it with a polarizer. prob can use a gell with the gopro i'm just not sure.

i could get it to do 180deg hd also by fitting a wide angle adaptor. not sure what the image quality would be but worth a go. panasonic do a .75 with a 46mm screw dia. i reckon that would just fit over the waterproof housing?????

.8 adaptor would give me around 170 deg.

like agraylin my preference is the contour, just bums me out that it's not 170 deg hd.