The Spirit 54 is the first sailing vessel in 350 years to be in the Grand Canal in Venice, mast up, sails on and ready to go. No one would dare attempt such an implausible task, but when Hollywood came calling for a sailing yacht to be featured in the James Bond movie Casino Royale, …
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It’s been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time. Nearly 100 years later, a group of British and Australian adventurers have discovered why. They re-enacted Ernest Shackleton’s journey to save his crew when their ship got stuck and sank in Antarctica’s icy waters.
Director: Pierre Marcel; Synopsis: Follow the life of one of the most historic yachts in North America, hearing stories of all she has touched and all those that have cared for her in her 100+ years, right up until her fateful day on July 7, 2007, where she was run-down and sunk within seconds. …
The act of building and sailing boats made out of trees and powered by the wind is a small moment of grace in the face of a digitally enhanced world and throwaway culture. But forty years ago the rise of fiberglass boats nearly pushed wooden sailboats, and the trade of building them, to the brink …