| I can't say that it was a good movie, but after reading about the sailing
I wouldn't have been satisfied until I saw it. Having become a devout
multihull fan I get Multihull Magazine which reviewed the sailing and the
boats before they discussed the movie at all. The actual sailing of the boat
was performed by a crew of three concealed in the main hull. The trimmers were
in a compartment aft of the mast with all the halyards and sheets lead to
winches in the compartment. Viewing of the sail shape and trim was done by
remote video cameras. The helmsman was in a smaller compartment forward of
the mast with a 2 inch joystick for steering and video cameras to see where
they were heading and also to judge the pitch of the hulls, especially the
ama's to avoid pitch polling. The sail boat (there were two for filming, one
sailer and one "trawler") did sail up to 30 knots during the filiming, but I
don't feel there was enough footage of the sailing. There were no speed
records broken by these boats, that movie prop hardware and junk on the sails
assured this. The boats are sister ships of Lakota (previously Piere 1er) and
Primagaz.
I really would like to have seen more of the sailing
Geoff
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| Notes of Waterworld bring back a nice memory of my maiden Sunfish
voyage. My wife went out of town for a weekend, so some friends and I
went to the cinema last summer and watched a movie at 9pm one Saturday.
Then, having planned to take the sunfish out the next day, one friend
stuck around with me and watched Waterworld from 12:00 to about 3am (!).
Thus invigorated for the exciting day ahead we promptly crashed till
about 10am Sun., at which point we loaded up the sunfish and went to
Cowan Lake in SW Ohio for a fun day in the sun.
Waterworld wasn't perhaps the greatest film, but it certainly got us
going. Since the wind wasn't up very much, the day went well for a 1st
outing....
A fine bottle of way too brut French Champagne was also part of the
festivities.
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