I just got a ton of extra accessories and gear for my Mavic Pro. I'll tell you what gear is worth having and what gear you can skip.
The gear I presently have for my Mavic Pro is:
- A waterproof "Pelican" style Case.
- Landing Gear (for better ground c...
We go for a winter walk in the forest to get some exercise. We take the Mavic Pro along with us to get some aerial footage of the area.
Janice reminds us how much she hates winter. We really need to get this girl on a sailboat in the Caribbean, soon!
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In this episode, I review various Mavic Pro Accessories. I give you the good and bad on ND filters, a full sized tablet holder, and Prop Guards. I also show you my new glove to allow me to fly with warm hands and still be able to touch the screen.
Does ...
In this Episode of Cruising Off Duty, I give a rundown of the DJI Go 4 App. It is the latest App designed specifically to fly the more advanced drones on the market from DJI, such as the Mavic Pro, Phantom 4, Phantom 4 Pro, Aspire 2 and Aspire Pro. All t...
This is a Sad Day for me. My Mavic Pro had a battery error while I was flying over these rapids and it Crashed. Well, it's more like it just lowered itself into the water to never be seen again. As sad as that was, the worst thing is the Timing. I boug...
Well, after the last episode where I lost my Mavic Pro, you all kept saying that I should find if there is any flight footage stored in my Tablet of the final flight and if it was there, you wanted to see it. So here it is. There were two flight videos s...
In this episode I will give you the final answer to the question, "Does DJI replace my downed Mavic Pro or Not?
If I don't get a replacement in time for my BVI trip, will I be able to borrow a Mavic Pro?
Will I ever fly a Mavic Pro above open water aga...
I get asked all the time what Software I use to edit my Cruising Off Duty Episodes and what cameras, etc, I use to film them. In this Episode I will go over all of the gear I use. Obviously when I travel to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) I have to pack...
My Replaced Mavic Pro arrived early, before I leave on my BVI trip (which was a huge relief) so I wanted to show you how you can link your controller to any new Mavic. Plus show you that firmware updates are always needed on any new Mavic and they take a ...
We just got back from our 2 week Caribbean Scuba and Sailing Trip. This is day 1 where we make our way to St Thomas (USVI) where we will be taking a 3 day PADI Scuba Open Water Course. I have so much great underwater, drone and sailing footage to bring y...
Ep44. Our 2nd Day of our Caribbean Scuba and Catamaran Sailing Trip. This is the first day of our PADI Open Water Scuba Course. We use a Safari Bus for the first time to travel around the island which is what the locals use to get around. It cost $2 and ...
Ep45. Day 3 of the Caribbean Scuba and Catamaran Sailing Trip. We are done with our instruction, so now we are doing full dives and bringing our GoPro with us to film. We also fly the Mavic Pro over St Thomas to get and Aerial perspective.
Tomorrow's ep...
Ep46. Day 4 of our Caribbean Scuba and Catamaran Sailing Trip. In this episode we do two Scuba Dives off a dive boat. We also use the Mavic Pro drone to get some Aerial footage of both sides of St Thomas including Coki Beach where we did our Scuba traini...
Ep47. This Episode of Cruising Off Duty, we leave St Thomas in the USVI on the Fast Ferry to go to Tortola in the BVI. We show you that it is not as easy as just jumping on a Ferry to change islands as you have a slow Customs Process ahead. You also mee...
Ep48. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we let you know what happens when we arrive at our charter Catamaran to find it has many issues. Most of the necessary appliances are broken and need to be repaired before we can leave the harbour.
Dream Yacht C...
Ep50 - This episode of Cruising Off Duty is when we take you to "The Baths" in Virgin Gorda, BVI. It is a cool area of paths through rocks that take you to small bays, that is a "must see" when you are in the British Virgin Islands.
There are no dinghies...
Ep51 - This episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our Catamaran Sailing series by showing you Spanish Town in the BVI.
If you enjoy the episode, please give it a thumbs up on Youtube as it helps the channel to grow. Don't miss the next episode when ...
With Sailing season just around the corner, things are busy. I am having trouble finding the time to edit the episodes I already have filmed. I am looking to my viewers to pass the word to any people that have some videography skills or Editing Skill (U...
Ep52. This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take you out on our 2nd day on the BVI Catamaran Sailing Trip where we visit the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda for dinner. It was a bit of a gong show getting there with 6 of us squeezed into a small din...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we take you out on our Catamaran for day 3 of our week charter. We head to Monkey Point which sheltered us from the high winds and we find the best snorkelling of the trip at this anchorage. This was also the most com...
Ep54. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue the Catamaran Sailing series by visiting Jost Van Dyke Island and we stop at a bay that has Foxy's Bar, where we celebrate Craig's Birthday. We did one more snorkel at Monkey Point and the footage o...
Cruising Off Duty passed 9,000 Subscribers yesterday! We just wanted to thank everyone for their support and say that we really enjoy bringing these episodes to you. When we break 10,000 subscribers we plan to do a Live Celebration episode, where we will...
Ep 55. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue with our BVI Catamaran Sailing Charter. This is Day 5 of our week long charter. We move one bay over on Jost Van Dyke Island to go to the beach where the Soggy Dollar Bar is. It was an awesome be...
Ep56. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail the catamaran from Jost Van Dyke Island to Norman Island to visit the Willy T Bar and have dinner at The Pirate's Bite.
The winds were strong and we sailed close hauled and went through some really big ...
Ep 57. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we cover Day 7 of our Catamaran Sailing Vacation and the last day of our charter. We spend the night anchored beside a very peaceful and beautiful anchorage on Peter Island.
We are all a bit sad that the vacat...
Ep58. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, Janice and I sit down and tell our viewers what it was like to Charter a Catamaran in the British Virgin Islands. What places we visited that were so good that we would want to go again and what places we would...
Ep59. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I compare my latest camera purchase, the Panasonic GH5, and its new features with my existing camera, the Panasonic GH4. I explain the features and the differences and then I show you the price difference (abou...
I received a lot of gear and accessories to review while we were away doing our British Virgin Islands sailing trip. I did not want to break up the BVI episodes with gear reviews, so I held off doing this episode until that series was done None of these ...
Having a Sailboat has been something we have never regretted. But owning a sailboat is much more than cruising along on a beautiful summer's day and then anchoring for "Sundowners". There is a lot of work required to take a boat from winter storage to re...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we stick to our plan of putting our boat in the water on May 6th and motor 12 hrs up the St Lawrence River to Kingston. It was cold, it was raining and we consider cancelling the trip, but decide to go anyway and thin...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we cover our 2 day trip up the St Lawrence River to our new home in Kingston Ontario. It was something we had been looking forward to all off season and it was suppose to be a filled with the breathtaking beauty of th...
The Cruising Off Duty channel is on the brink of crossing 10,000 subscribers and when we do, we plan to do a live episode where we answer your questions that we have received from you through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. You can find us on all social me...
In This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we go to our boat for the first time since the collision and try and get it fixed up enough to allow us to continue exploring the 1000 Islands area of the St Lawrence and Great Lakes this summer.
We get to explore ou...
Ep66. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we do the best we can to make some quick fixes to the boat so we can use it this summer. No boat yards are available to work on our boat for months so temporary fixes are going to have to do for now.
We get ou...
This live episode will happen on Wednesday June 7th at 7pm ET. This will be a Q&A episode. We have written down a bunch of questions that people have asked us but if you have ones we don't cover, ask them at the live event and we will try and answer t...
So sorry for the quality of the first Live Feed. After it was over we saw the final Product on our first attempt and it was brutally choppy. We figured our 10,000 subscriber celebration video had to be better than that. We did a quick Private Test of do...
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