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Saw this via the Sky last nite. Quite good.
One chap (sheehan, i think) described watching his Dad drift away, very sad. Towards the end he described how he winces when he sees the t-shirts which say "better a bad day on the water than a good day in the office" - and he'd have swapped thqat day for a day in the office. I belive he still sails though some others who were involved don't.
I think they had enough real material (lots of '79 tv footage, interviews with survivors etc etc) to do a better job here, but it wd've cost a bit more on graphics and time to explain the story as it unfolded - a longer program i spose.
Just wondering if Peter Snow, an actual sailor and tv "bankable" could praps have done an Alan Whicker - started his own TV production company and make decent boating programs himself which would surely be better, more informed, more explanatory. Dunno.
imho 6/10, or praps 7/10 but only because of the "Zapruda" nature of the (small amount of) footage shown - regardless of how badly the program was put together the subject matter itself was such that they would have had to really work to make it very bad. Zapruda of course is the bloke who took the (quite crap) cine film of Kennedy assassination But with all that more professionally shot material of F'79, this could have been really thunderously good and informative documentary.
As usual, boatingwise, the major tv companies seem blind to boating whereas other subjects (eg snooker) they manage to make quite humdrum or dull events seem full of drama where none exists.
Worst bit: Edward Heath blowing his sailing credentials by decsribing how he was "down below with the maps". Oh dear.
all imho.
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One chap (sheehan, i think) described watching his Dad drift away, very sad. Towards the end he described how he winces when he sees the t-shirts which say "better a bad day on the water than a good day in the office" - and he'd have swapped thqat day for a day in the office. I belive he still sails though some others who were involved don't.
I think they had enough real material (lots of '79 tv footage, interviews with survivors etc etc) to do a better job here, but it wd've cost a bit more on graphics and time to explain the story as it unfolded - a longer program i spose.
Just wondering if Peter Snow, an actual sailor and tv "bankable" could praps have done an Alan Whicker - started his own TV production company and make decent boating programs himself which would surely be better, more informed, more explanatory. Dunno.
imho 6/10, or praps 7/10 but only because of the "Zapruda" nature of the (small amount of) footage shown - regardless of how badly the program was put together the subject matter itself was such that they would have had to really work to make it very bad. Zapruda of course is the bloke who took the (quite crap) cine film of Kennedy assassination But with all that more professionally shot material of F'79, this could have been really thunderously good and informative documentary.
As usual, boatingwise, the major tv companies seem blind to boating whereas other subjects (eg snooker) they manage to make quite humdrum or dull events seem full of drama where none exists.
Worst bit: Edward Heath blowing his sailing credentials by decsribing how he was "down below with the maps". Oh dear.
all imho.
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