Ski racing’s moviemaker Jeff Barrus has just released a promo video for the forthcoming 2008 Catalina DVD which you can watch below.
The 60th Annual Catalina Ski Race 2008 DVD Promo from Jeff Barrus on Vimeo.
Jeff writes …
The 60th was another amazing year for the Catalina Ski Race. It felt like a four day event this year. The Long Beach Sea Festival introduced the Powerfest Weekend Thursday Night Thunder Party on Pine St. All ages could come get up close with high performance water craft, see an extreme wakeboarding show, have a live band, and more…..Then Friday Special Needs Kids day at Marine Stadium hit record numbers for another year in a row. Saturday’s Water Ski Race brought 26 international competitors over for the challenge. Sundays Offshore Race hit speed of over 160 MPH. Then some crazies raced to Catalina and back on PWC’s Long Beach is the place to be for extreme water sports in July. Special thanks to Camino Real Chevrolet and GT Performance Marine for all their support.
22 July
I spent my time on Catalina race day directing and commentating with a TV cameraman and pilot in a chopper so I was unable to take my own footage to post online. But the footage we took from the air will I’m sure be amazing. In addition to that, Jeff Barrus of Goldfinger Racing had cameras on another chopper, a plane, boats, skiers and the beach. So he will no doubt have a huge amount of coverage to edit into the final DVD that he will produce for sale.
I hope to get hold of 10 mins of the footage to put online and details of how to order the DVD will also be well publicised.
