prv
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People finding fault is a risk you take when publishing photos of your sailing activities, even more so with video. Even if you're Eric Hiscock
Pete
Hiscock - Beyond the West Horizon on Youtube
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People finding fault is a risk you take when publishing photos of your sailing activities, even more so with video. Even if you're Eric Hiscock
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jpcarter30
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That looks a great film. I'll put it on the watch list. Many thanks for that.
Dave-Shafa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL8sBp850Hc&feature=youtu.be
Susan was good at rowing the dinghy, buying spuds and peeling them. Wish Susan was in my galley.
Susan was good at rowing the dinghy, buying spuds and peeling them. Wish Susan was in my galley.
jpcarter30
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Must admit, Susan got me a bit worked up! Don't ask me how or why, she just did. Anyhow I've just looked up ABE and found a copy of the book and it's on it's way to me for christmas.Gawd bless the internet!
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Wooden Boat Fittings
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They did pretty well out of that book -- and of course the others. And they deserved to. Regrettably Eric was a smoker, and eventually succumbed to lung cancer. They had been at that time living aboard at Whangarei in NZ's North Island. Susan sold up and moved back to the UK, where she bought a house and lived for some years longer. And when she died she left something over £3m to the RNLI....
Mike
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hannahman
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Yes, she saw out her final years in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Loved the books, and have bookmarked the footage, for later viewing!
Doug
mainsail1
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Thank you for pointing us to this video. I watched it yesterday and it brought back memories of a very different world only sixty years ago.
charles_reed
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Thanks for the link - saw the original in the RSYC in 1975.
All shot on 8mm, edited and sound-track dubbed by Eric - and the boat was only 30' long...
How our expectations and hubris have grown with the years.
All shot on 8mm, edited and sound-track dubbed by Eric - and the boat was only 30' long...
How our expectations and hubris have grown with the years.
John_Silver
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Whets the appetite for an evening with the charts out on the saloon table thinking about cruises to come.....
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Hi, everybody. I've been lurking for a while, I finally feel it's time to post something.
The Hiscocks' film is fascinating in so many ways. It is mis-captioned on YouTube, it isn't the 1952 voyage, it's the 1959 one as Eric says in his commentary. I dug out the book of the earlier voyage, "Around the World in Wanderer III", and it's a completely different route. I've noticed one thing; they seem to be wearing the same clothes! Three things spring to mind:
1) Clothes lasted much longer in those days.
2) They bought their clothes in bulk.
3) Styles stayed in fashion longer in the fifties.
In honour of their achievements we went and stood on the beam they, (or more probably Susan), donated to the restoration of Yarmouth Pier. Their beam, with their names on, is on the end landward of the fishermen's shelter!
The Hiscocks' film is fascinating in so many ways. It is mis-captioned on YouTube, it isn't the 1952 voyage, it's the 1959 one as Eric says in his commentary. I dug out the book of the earlier voyage, "Around the World in Wanderer III", and it's a completely different route. I've noticed one thing; they seem to be wearing the same clothes! Three things spring to mind:
1) Clothes lasted much longer in those days.
2) They bought their clothes in bulk.
3) Styles stayed in fashion longer in the fifties.
In honour of their achievements we went and stood on the beam they, (or more probably Susan), donated to the restoration of Yarmouth Pier. Their beam, with their names on, is on the end landward of the fishermen's shelter!
LadyInBed
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Fantastic footage, real history.
Babylon
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Welcome Norm
Yeah, I noticed the mis-dating.
Re the same clothes, stuff was no doubt still being made to last in those days - and BO hadn't yet been invented by the marketing hoodlums.
NormanB
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I know this an old thread but I just wanted to alert those with a interest in this fabulous piece of film history, that someone has managed to acquire the copyright and you now have to pay to watch. Big shame.
Seven Spades
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Well it re-appears on youtube at regular intervals until it is blocked. Here is what it says on The Sailing Channel:-
NormanB
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I would have rather they left it as it was - the iffy quality was all part of the charm.
fergie_mac66
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Just an if you don't know , Cruising under sail is one of two sailing bibles the other is voyaging under sail, there was a print run of both in one volume.
fergie_mac66
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Yes I would agree. The part of the film in africa where susan was not allowed in the mosque is quite interesting .Erics comments about ( paraphrase) not the friendliness place is more than a sign of things to come. However that whole town was destroyed by earthquake and 10000 killed a little while after their visit so I guess, that this might be the only film of that area . Wonder if there were any outtakes.
Sybarite
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Not available apparently because of copyright issues.
KINGFISHER 9
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I've just checked my playlist on YouTube where it's been for a couple of years ... 'Removed for copyright' etc ... I had a copy on video tape before it was stolen by a guy who was refurbishing one of my boats! (name supplied on request!) How much does it cost if you want to watch it?
fergie_mac66
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The film was taken over 3 years the length of their voyage starting in 1956 . I believe someone from the bbbc arranged for the developing of the film reels in batches posted back he developed some of the photos in the forcabin
