Monopod Improvement

Philip has posted a few images of the kayak camera monopod he made.

This is really awesome! Thanks for crediting my post on the idea, Phil, but you made some great modifications - adding lanyards to connect the monopod to the boat, and a detachable lanyard to connect the camera to the monopod. Very good improvements!! I've actually lost my camera overboard before, but was very lucky in that it happened close to shore during high tide. :)

Last summer I was connecting my camera with a lanyard to the rigging of my boat, but I like your idea far better and will probably implement this summer.

Also of note is that Phil is using a Discover XL (yay!) from Northwest Kayaks. This is the same boat I (ab)use, so that was neat to see. He has a lot of other modifications documented on his flickr site including a solar panel kit. Notably, to accomodate mounting a sail, he had installed the Scotty Flush Mount for the monopod perpendicular to my arrangement to handle this particular type of stress. This is a great idea. I haven't ever tried putting a sail on the boat, but I'm sure it's fun.

Objectively, I think this is the most versitile way to install the mount, and have to confess that I obsessed over this decision for a little while when putting mine in. Were I to do it over, I might go with this functional configuration.