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Must have been a tiny boat!
The Mercy
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Must have been a tiny boat!
mjcoon
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Probably subject to quantum uncertainty! Mike.
Seven Spades
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Yes “The Weekend Sailor” is fantastic. It is the story of the first Whitbread Round The World yacht race. Simply brilliant, the outsider wins after being lampooned by the British press.
It has echos of Maiden. You have to pay to watch Maiden though.
RichardS
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I watched a sailing film from 2019 last night ... it was called "Capsized" and supposedly based on a true incident from 1982.
A sailing boat with 5 people on board gets caught in a storm and one of the crew get badly injured and they call Mayday. The boat ends up sinking in shark infested waters off Florida.
Familiar stuff but reasonably enjoyable if you like shouting "What the hell is he doing? I wouldn't do that". Oops.
Richard
A sailing boat with 5 people on board gets caught in a storm and one of the crew get badly injured and they call Mayday. The boat ends up sinking in shark infested waters off Florida.
Familiar stuff but reasonably enjoyable if you like shouting "What the hell is he doing? I wouldn't do that". Oops.
Richard
Seven Spades
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Watch the film they build the ferro boat after they lose their first boat on an atol (spellchecker changes it to atom if I add a full stop).
Seven Spades
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On what service did you watch it?I watched a sailing film from 2019 last night ... it was called "Capsized" and supposedly based on a true incident from 1982.
A sailing boat with 5 people on board gets caught in a storm and one of the crew get badly injured and they call Mayday. The boat ends up sinking in shark infested waters off Florida.
Familiar stuff but reasonably enjoyable if you like shouting "What the hell is he doing? I wouldn't do that". Oops.
Richard
One to watch when the wife is out or my best crew might take up stamp collecting!
Frogmogman
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I enjoyed Maiden - it was on one of the mainstream channels not too long ago. I was pleased to see Bob Fisher's reference to Maiden at the time as "a tin full of tarts" coming back and biting him on the arse. It was an outrageously misogynistic remark, but much in tune with the patronizing way Tracy Edwards and her crew were treated at the time. To say it was a full 12 years after Clare Francis had achieved such a creditable result with ADC Accutrac in the 2nd Whitbread (OK, with a mixed crew), from a modern perspective it seems astonishing that Tracy and her crew were treated with such little respect.
laika
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What surprised me was that in neither "Maiden" nor the talk Ms. Edwards gives to go with it is Clare Francis even mentioned. Maybe it contradicts the narrative that Edwards was the first woman ever to set foot on a racing boat in any capacity other than cook? Dunno but given the themes it seemed bizarre not to even namecheck Francis. Which reminds me...I have "Come Hell or High Water" waiting on my bookshelf as my next read. Unfortunately I got locked down 100 miles from my bookshelf.
Frogmogman
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She wouldn't get away with calling her boat Robertson's Golly nowadays.....
GHA
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Did the same. moitessier at one with the universe and not keen on the western love and worship of money, Knox-Johnstone a bit grumpy and keen to 'can't have that damn frenchman winning'
RichardS
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This is the trailer, which more or less gives you the entire film:
We watched a downloaded version but I think it's on Amazon.
Richard
Denek
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There are quite a few on prime but I will check that out sounds good. Seems like some good reading recommendations here too so hopefully will not get bored. Might get the RYA practice charts out too.
RichardS
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Watch the trailer and say if you think that boat looks like a 50 footer? We were all very sceptical.
Richard