The film is centered on the America’s Cup series of yachting races and uses them as a backdrop for both an action/adventure and a romantic storyline. It is inspired by real events, starting from the loss of the 1983 America’s Cup through the events of the 1987 America’s Cup. Several of the 12-metre class yachts …
MAIDENTRIP (2014), documentary following the record-breaking round-the-world voyage of Dutch teen Laura Dekker, youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. WINNER 2013 Audience Award – SXSW Film Festival – Visions WINNER 2013 Festival Director’s Award, Mountainfilm WINNER 2013 Audience Award, Camden International Film Festival Website
The Last Cape Horners – The End of the Great Sailing Ship Era Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. He employed them in the last trade left to the sailing ship, the carriage of grain from Australia to Europe by way of treacherous Cape …
CHARLOTTE is a film about Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin established the boatyard in 1980 with the purpose of designing, building, and maintaining traditionally built wooden boats, and in the process they transformed Vineyard Haven harbor into a mecca for wooden boat …
Captain Courageous – TRAILER