The Royal Natal Yacht Club recently organised Friday evening talks that were attended by many members and both talks were interesting and entertaining.
One was Christ Frost's feedback talk on the Cape to Rio race in which his yacht Prodigy took line honours.
Another was a presentation by Tony Bullimore - a top international yachtsman - who spoke about his experiences in the 1996 Vendee Globe single handed around-the-world race when his boat the Exice Dhallenger capsized and Tony was trapped under the boat for five days before being rescued.
While considering what Point Yacht club could do to similarly entertain its members young and old, Tempest had the idea of arranging a series of sailing-related movies in the new "youth room" on the ground level of the PYC club house. Afterwards the oldies can go up to the pub while the younger set can tidy up their room :)
Ideas for movies:
This list was compiled from various sources but mainly from a list compiled by JohnYawl at yachtpals.com. John added ratings, plot lines, actors etc - a fantastic source so this is the "short version":
Perhaps watching and talking about sailing movies would inspire closet home-movie makers to start aiming their cameras at boats in local regattas. It seems more than likely that the great saiilng footage produced by Evgeni Tashkin while sailing on the Energy Diet trimaran is going to end up in a film about the expedition to be made in Russia. So nothing is impossible!
Now: How to present this idea to the PYC flag officers and get some action ...
One was Christ Frost's feedback talk on the Cape to Rio race in which his yacht Prodigy took line honours.
Another was a presentation by Tony Bullimore - a top international yachtsman - who spoke about his experiences in the 1996 Vendee Globe single handed around-the-world race when his boat the Exice Dhallenger capsized and Tony was trapped under the boat for five days before being rescued.
While considering what Point Yacht club could do to similarly entertain its members young and old, Tempest had the idea of arranging a series of sailing-related movies in the new "youth room" on the ground level of the PYC club house. Afterwards the oldies can go up to the pub while the younger set can tidy up their room :)
Ideas for movies:
This list was compiled from various sources but mainly from a list compiled by JohnYawl at yachtpals.com. John added ratings, plot lines, actors etc - a fantastic source so this is the "short version":
| Title |
|---|
| A High Wind in Jamaica |
| Adrift |
| Adventures in Paradise |
| Adventures On the High Seas |
| Against All Flags |
| All the Brothers Were Valiant |
| Alone Across the pacific |
| Amistad |
| And the sea will tell |
| Anne of the Indies |
| Anything to Survive |
| Blackbeard the Pirate |
| Botany Bay |
| Cabin Boy |
| Captain Blood |
| Captain Courageious |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower |
| Captain Jack |
| Captain James Cook |
| Captain Kidd |
| Captain Ron |
| Captain Sirocco |
| Captains Courageous |
| Cassandras Dream |
| Cassandra's Dream |
| Charlie St. Cloud |
| Charlie St. Cloud |
| Christopher Columbus |
| Cutthroat Island |
| Damn the Defiant! |
| Dead Calm |
| Deep Water |
| Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox story |
| Down To The Sea In Ships |
| Drake’s Venture |
| Eric the Viking |
| Horatio Hornblower |
| Hot Pursuit |
| I Sailed to Tahiti With an All-Girl Crew. |
| Jason and the Argonauts |
| John Paul Jones |
| Kidnapped! |
| Knife in the Water (Noz w wodzie) |
| Lifeboat |
| Longitude |
| Lost! |
| Lucky Lady |
| Master and Commander |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World |
| Message in a Bottle |
| Midnight Crossing |
| Moby Dick |
| Morning Light |
| Mutiny |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Mysterious Island |
| Nate and Hayes |
| Old Ironsides |
| Open Waters |
| Open Waters II |
| Overboard |
| Pirate of the Black Hawk |
| Pirates |
| Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl |
| Pirates of Tortuga |
| Plymouth Adventure |
| Reap the Wild Wind |
| Riddle of the Sands |
| Sail To Glory |
| Saps at Sea |
| Sea Devils |
| Sea Warriors: The Royal Navy in the Age of Sail |
| Sea Wolf |
| Seven Seas to Calais |
| Shipwrecked |
| Sinbad Movies |
| Souls at Sea |
| Summer Rental |
| Survive the Savage Sea |
| Swallows and Amazons |
| Swashbuckler |
| Swiss Family Robinson |
| The Adventures of Captain Fabian |
| The Adventures of Long John Silver |
| The African Queen |
| The Black Pirate |
| The Black Swan |
| The Bounty |
| The Buccaneer |
| The Buccaneers |
| The Crimson Pirate |
| The Cruel Sea |
| The Dove |
| The Dove |
| The Lady From Shanghai |
| The Long Ships |
| The Man Without a Country |
| The Master of Ballantrae |
| The Navigator |
| The Norseman |
| The Odyssey |
| The Old Man and the Sea |
| The Onedin Line |
| The Sailor from Gibraltar |
| The Sea Gypsies |
| The Sea Hawk |
| The Skipper |
| The Vikings |
| The Wakiest Ship in the army |
| The World in His Arms |
| Top Sailing |
| Torrent |
| Treasure Island |
| Triangle |
| Twilight for the Gods |
| Two Years Before the Mast |
| Violets are Blue |
| Visitors |
| Voyage |
| Wackiest Ship in the Army |
| Wake of the Red Witch |
| Waterworld |
| White Squall |
| Wind |
| Wind in the Willows |
| WindJammer |
| Yankee Buccaneer |
| Yellowbeard |
Perhaps watching and talking about sailing movies would inspire closet home-movie makers to start aiming their cameras at boats in local regattas. It seems more than likely that the great saiilng footage produced by Evgeni Tashkin while sailing on the Energy Diet trimaran is going to end up in a film about the expedition to be made in Russia. So nothing is impossible!
Now: How to present this idea to the PYC flag officers and get some action ...
