Yacht Pics from Drones...

Do you really want me to resort to tribal behavior? Can we agree that my wife's naked body on the sole of my cockpit at a lonely anchor is off limits?

Resort if you must, because we will not agree. Tell your wife to cover up if you don't want me and the world looking at her goodies.

Look but don't touch is the only rule that applies. The "drone" driver has as much right to hover nearby as she does to enjoy the sunshine.

We have to be careful about what we ask for, we don't gain more rights by taking some from others.

I think this thread needs to renamed, 4 pages and only 2 videos!

No, we just need more people to submit videos that show what "drones" can bring to the visual enjoyment of yachting. There are probably enough available to overload the server should the owners decide to make them public.

I was recently on a large yacht in Turkey that used a multi-rotor to provide charter guests with videos of their experience onboard from a unique perspective. The up side of this technology in this industry is amazing.

We have to be careful about what we ask for, we don't gain more rights by taking some from others

But that assumes I have no rights, My position is that I do have limited rights. Privacy is more than a courtesy. Let's change the hypothetical, Suppose I point a commercially available parabolic listening device at you while you're on your phone - can the drone or kayaker do that too? Am I suppose to hang up because he has some larger individual right to snoop? I'm beginning to understand my views on privacy may have become quaint. No wonder there's been so little push back on gov't intrusion (but that's a whole other thread. I'll have to find another to hijack)

As to going into my cabin - suppose that drone wants to hover outside my window looking in? Unlikely conduct I would hope - but is that my only resource - Hope?

Look, you're assuming you have some kind of sovereignty everywhere you go, and you don't. Have you ever had to fight for a seat on the bus? Ever had someone swipe your parking space at the grocery store or mall? Have you ever watched fireworks at a park and bumped shoulders , arms, legs or feet with someone sitting next to you?

No offense, but let's get real here. Public spaces are not our personal houses.

Personally, I think drones are interesting, and when I was studying aerospace it was my hope to be part of a design team that used drone like architecture for rescue aircraft. The USAF actually experimented with current drone design back in the 50s, but there weren't any microcomputers to make the corrections to keep such a vehicle aloft. Moller international is developing a flying car that used drone-like design parameters. If you think your privacy is violated now, then wait until flying cars get here in a decade or so.

But now I'm digressing beyond yachts and drones.

Yachts and drones; love 'em both. And I love the yacht footage on YouTube that before required a fully loaded helo with a camera man and full sized camera. Great stuff.

Look, you're assuming you have some kind of sovereignty everywhere you go, and you don't. The U.S. laws as they exit today say that I do carry certain rights with me. For instance you can accidently bump into me, but you can't deliberately shove me.

Ever had someone swipe your parking space at the grocery store or mall? Not talking about the public parking space (water surface), I'm talking about the private interior/exterior of my car (boat).

BTW, I am a fan of drones too. I have no animus toward the technology.

Anyway, we about beat this discussion to a pulp. Where are those photos

They're in this thread: http://www.yachtforums.com/threads/aerial-drone-yacht-videos.25925/

...lol, my science teacher in high school said we would all be driving flying cars. That was in 1974.

http://www.moller.com/

Dude's been at it for a few years, but he's got a solid design.

Back on topic; my favorite footage is a drone flying over the salvage of the Costa Concordia as she was being raised. It was early evening or late afternoon, and some guy had his drone fly all over her and the salvage vessels. Great stuff, but I can't seem to find it on YouTube anymore.

You actually are talking about a public parking space, only it's out in the water, nested in some cove between two rock/land formations.

If your hottie wife is stripped naked and sunning herself on the deck, and my drone happens along, well, you better hope I don't have the urge to upload whatever footage I grab. Them's the breaks.

I still don't get the recent fascination with drones. The technology has been around for a while now, but it seems like it's experienced a boom in the last few years. That I don't get. It's like there's this swell in both interest and awareness for something that's been around for quite a while.

Private exterior?