Our goal with ProjectCam is to provide a sort of project peep-hole through which visitors can watch a project going together before their very eyes. In this case, a Weekender sailboat. Perhaps you're curious about what's involved in a do-it-yourself project, maybe you just love to watch other people at work, could be the Zen of creation grabs you: whatever your reason, grab a chair and start the show!
ProjectCam is sequential presentation of 60 still frames from our Weekender How-To Video. It starts at the beginning with lumber selection, and progresses through the various stages of building, ending up with the Weekender sailing around in the bay. Each frame should take about twenty to thirty seconds to refresh, given normal conditions. The whole show will therefore take twenty to thirty minutes to complete. The little number at the bottom of each still photo is the frame counter, which gives you an idea of where in the video the picture appears. When you order a Weekender Video, it won't have these to get in the way of the action.
If you're using Netscape Navigator, the pages will automatically advance every twenty seconds, but if you're ready to go to the next picture sooner, click on the "NEXT" button. If you're using another program to view ProjectCam, use the "NEXT" control button to go forward whenever you are ready.
Anybody can use the control buttons to go to the "NEXT" picture, go back to the "LAST" picture, or "PAUSE" to see a picture in detail.
Afterwards, if your interest has been piqued by ProjectCam (and we hope it will be), we have what you need! A 3-1/2hour videotape of the Weekender being put together: from picking the lumber to sailing tips. Everything along the way, including tool-use secrets, assembly tricks, bondo-techniques, fibreglassing, painting caveats, sailmaking, varnishing, and rigging short-cuts.
The video also tackles the dynamics of project building: how to overcome "First-cut Fever" (the anxiousness preceeding your first steps into a project), how to keep momentum rolling through the stretch. and how to combat "Finishing Touch-Fever" (that hesitance to get the project out on the water and try it!).
To find out more about the Weekender and its Video, Click Here
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