Sailng Movies for Cabin Fever

[Mac26Mpaul]

Not sure if already mentioned but "The Bounty is a great movie (as most anything with A Hopkins in usually is). Its a bit heavy on the Bligh beat up (as all the Hollywood Bounty mutiny movies were), but still a great movie.

My favorite quote for use on my kids was:
"Do you find this situation humorous!" Well you are mistaken, From now on there is going to be discipline on this ship - We are gunna have order, and we are gunna be like seaman".
which is at about 52 seconds into this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUlgVqSeLRk

[BOAT]

Watch the movie first. Then you can decide on his sanity - it may be questionable to me because of the boat he used, but his ability on the water was really good - they tout the movie like as if he had never been sailing before but the truth is he had a lot of sailing experience before he did the trip. He had already been on many long voyages on slightly larger boats with a crew and sailed people for charity for disabilities and stuff. He also was a boat repair man! That was his job! Repairing sailboats! They don't really tell you that in the movie but you see it in his biographical info. He was working a boat yard where he repaired and restored derelict sailboats for charity and the boat was given to him as a derelict.

He had the skills.

[Catigale]

Its not about ability, boat, the stuff on board...its simple math.

In 18 minutes, stuff you can't see comes up from over the horizon and if you are on a collision course, it hits you.

Unless you can maintain an 18 minute watch interval for your trip, you are playing RR.

Sharknado's, falling vending machines, hippos, all add risk, but the simple lack of watch is immutable

[kadet]

Its not about ability, boat, the stuff on board...its simple math.

In 18 minutes, stuff you can't see comes up from over the horizon and if you are on a collision course, it hits you.

Unless you can maintain an 18 minute watch interval for your trip, you are playing RR.

Sharknado's, falling vending machines, hippos, all add risk, but the simple lack of watch is immutable

Collisions at sea between between vessels by solo sailors, though not unheard of, are extremely rare events. Vessel's with crew and 24hr watches still collide with other vessels not to mention all the flotsam and debris floating unseen just below the surface.

Of all my concerns for long distance solo sailing collision at sea is probably one of the lower risks on the list and would be one of the easier risks to mitigate with modern tech such as AIS, radar and VHF for warning and modern nav to keep out of shipping lanes.

[BOAT]

I have been reading and watching stuff about these solo people since I was about 8 years old. It all started with me when i found out about Robin Lee Graham and was told he had just left San Pedro to sail around the world. I had a Bootsbau Korralle my dad gave me and I sailed in San Pedro too so I wanted to know about it. When I was 10 the National Geographic started covering the travels of Graham and I was reading every issue. By the time I was 13 and the last issue of NAT GEO came out about the voyage my dad had bought another bigger boat for me to sail and we started traveling all over the place. I was already pretty keen on the dangers of sailing small boats in the open ocean before I was 9 years old so these people fascinated me - I was well aware it was very dangerous even as it was happening. My dad and I often discussed how it would be done in a 23 foot boat.

I remember when Tania Aebi did a circumnavigation when I was about 28 (well, that's when she started) my dad and I talked how we were not impressed because her boat was so big - 26 FEET!! Ha Ha We were so arrogant to think that 26 feet was such a big boat because Grahanm did it in a 24 footer and we only had a 23 foot boat. How silly. That was back in 85 or 86 I think. We thought a Balboa 26 was a yacht! We though we could sail anywhere in a boat "that big" (26 feet). How silly.

In my mind Brian Caldwell just did the same thing Aebi did in the same stupid boat only faster about 10 years later as I recall - I say "stupid boat" but the fact never was lost on me that both of those sailors used a TWENTY SIX FOOT BOAT!

By then I got it stuck in my head that the perfect size solo sailboat was 26 feet long and I started looking but marriage and kids came along in the early 90s long before Caldwell even finished his trip and all my boat money went into mortgages and kids and 'stuff'. That was the end of that. I just bought a good old truck camper and forgot about the whole boat idea.

All the other guys that followed Caldwell I was not interested in because all thier boats were huge! Sunderland was on an islander 36 (geeze! an aircraft carrier!) and when the Brits pulled out a 50 footer for Perham's trip I walked away from the whole scene - I was not longer interested. I was into the grit of the folks using little 25 foot boats. Then I got interested again when a 16 year old Danish girl took of in a little Jenneau Gin Fizz and by 2010 we were looking for a boat again. By 2011 we had decided on the M boat and brought one home in late 2012, (one of the first 2013 models out of the factory). First day out I realized I was way too old to even think about the stuff I thought about when I was young.

So, maybe someday some kid might get the idea and try it in an M boat - be the first to sail around the Americas in a water ballast boat - or maybe the first to sail around the world in a water ballasted boat. No on has ever done any of the records in a water ballast boat. Or maybe the first to do XXXXX in a water ballast boat? YOU tell me what XXXXX is - because the records are wide open - no one has ever done ANYTHING in a water ballasted boats - just think, maybe one of you guys might be the first. I think the first record to break is California to Hawaii in a water ballasted boat. Has anyone done that one yet? That would be a good start.

[K9Kampers]

In 18 minutes, stuff you can't see comes up from over the horizon and if you are on a collision course, it hits you.

Unless you can maintain an 18 minute watch interval for your trip, you are playing RR.

Solution: set on-watch alarm at 17 minutes.

[BOAT]

Anyways, I broke off because k9kampers and the puppies were knocking and I did not want to be a hog but the last thing was that in all the stuff I have watched and read over the years I have indeed seen a lot of problems with small sailboats getting run over by big cargo ships.

Graham almost got destroyed by one once - and the guy that sailed the Americas almost got crunched too - it is an issue. I know that when my dad and i would sail at night crossing the San Pedro Channel we would hang all kinds of metal crap off the mast hoping the big boats would see us on their radar. You really can't hear them coming - it's like a low hissing sound when they are coming right at you - if it's dark you can get crunched before the sound is loud enough to wake you up.

It's the really big cargo ships that are silent - the cruisers and power boats are loud, but those cargo ships are not.

If your out of the shipping lanes you can sleep - the odds of getting hit are really really low. If your near the coast it's a lot more dicey.

[K9Kampers]

... because the records are wide open - no one has ever done ANYTHING in a water ballasted boats - just think, maybe one of you guys might be the first. I think the first record to break is California to Hawaii in a water ballasted boat. Has anyone done that one yet? That would be a good start.

What about Mighetto?!

[BOAT]

He is one of those Canada guys, right?? You can never be sure with those guys. I would need Highlander to check out anything happening up there.

The best ones are from Denmark and France.

Canada? Hmm, not real sure about that one - I would expect one of our people in Denmark to be the first on a world record in a M boat, although there is a lot of talent coming out of Canada lately. Not so sure about that guy though.

[vizwhiz]

So has anyone mentioned the old Captain Horatio Hornblower movie with Gregory Peck? We really liked that one.

And didn't someone on this forum sail their M out to Hawaii a few years ago?

Also, we have been following the journeys of a nice couple on Youtube who have been sailing an Albin Vega 27. They sailed it all over Hawaii, across from HI to Vancouver, up and down the Pacific coast, back across to HI, and then from HI up to Alaska, all around SE Alaska, and are in the process of a refit now. It is called Cruising LeaLea, and they have a website and youtube playlists, etc. Kinda quiet, conservative couple who are not in a hurry, try to avoid rough weather, and are pretty much living the small boat cruising lifestyle, even in open blue water. But what this does do well is show the seaworthiness of a small boat, the capabilities, and the layout/details of the boat. Very different build than ours in a lot of ways! But I think our boat has more room, actually.

[BOAT]

I have room! See - look at my new disappearing head door:

[K9Kampers]

I have room! See - look at my new disappearing head door:

Nice job BOAT!

[Tomfoolery]

I have room! See - look at my new disappearing head door:

Nice job BOAT!

Yeah. Really nice, BOAT. I gotta keep this away from the admiral, or she'll be wanting an M now. The head in the X is enclosed, but tiny.

[BOAT]

I have room! See - look at my new disappearing head door:

Nice job BOAT!

Yeah. Really nice, BOAT. I gotta keep this away from the admiral, or she'll be wanting an M now. The head in the X is enclosed, but tiny.

I got LOT's of room now!! The head is really REALLY BIG!!

You get the whole front of the boat now:


You have room to stretch out on your own private settee with a nice vent all to yourself
and there is a small couch and plenty of poop room on the poop deck.
This was needed to make the transition to long ocean voyages for the Mrs

And the best part is that is slides out of the way with no silly hinges or hooks or stuff:




But the thing the I like the most is that it's very thin and takes up LESS room in the head than the old stock door
and it's also LIGHTER than the original stock door too:


This gives me room to mount a sink now. You will never guess where the sink is going -
and I assure you - the sink will also be invisible just like the door when not in use.

[skibuff]

Wind
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v41603827SWzayZWw

Great movie Inspired by real events surrounding Americans loss to Australia in the America's cup and their fight to regain the cup.