Movie- Wind question

[Lightfoot]

Best sailing scene is in the movie ‘The Jackel’

Bruse Willis sails the Chicago to Mac race solo from undisclosed location in Canada to Chicago with a cannon hidden  in the boom. Parks the boat in the harbor and some how get the gun from the boat to the van without anyone seeing.

Best part is they filmed the finish on a dead calm day so all the local racers they paid to come out put their kites up and motored backward to keep them full for the helicopter shots.

 

[spankoka]

I've seen that one. Alone on the Pacific is an underrated film based on Kenichi Horie. 

 

[blunted]

I first saw Wind in a theatre in Kingston Ontario at CORK when it was first released. The whole theatre was full of sailors. Most fun I've ever had at a movie, many pounds of popcorn were thrown at the screen that night and an optomotrist could have been kept busy full time fixing eye roll strains outside the theatre.

At every windward mark the next day you could hear some wag shouting "Hoist the Womper", followed by peels of laughter.

Just started watching it again the other night at the GF's request. Coppolla knows how to tell a visual story. Matthew Modine is a bit of a git who needs an upside the head the get straightened out though.

 

[Latadjust]

I’ll see your “Summer Rental” and raise you “One Crazy Summer!”

Good ones, yes. And let us not exclude the incredible maritime adventures of Stuart Little.

 

[Tax Man]

I first saw Wind in a theatre in Kingston Ontario at CORK when it was first released. The whole theatre was full of sailors. Most fun I've ever had at a movie, many pounds of popcorn were thrown at the screen that night and an optomotrist could have been kept busy full time fixing eye roll strains outside the theatre.

Sure it's camp if you do a lot of sailing, but when my girlfriend whose sailing experience was just booze cruises asked why the sheet was on the winch backwards I knew I had a keeper.

 

[bobecs]

Best sailing scene is in the movie ‘The Jackel’

Bruse Willis sails the Chicago to Mac race solo from undisclosed location in Canada to Chicago with a cannon hidden  in the boom. Parks the boat in the harbor and some how get the gun from the boat to the van without anyone seeing.

Best part is they filmed the finish on a dead calm day so all the local racers they paid to come out put their kites up and motored backward to keep them full for the helicopter shots.

I skippered one of those boats and we did not motor backwards

 

[Raz'r]

Watched wind this weekend with the wife and kid. Condensed it to about 25 minutes. Not bad done that way.

 

[Sailing My Cubicle]

When its the middle of New England winter and you're done moving piles of snow around while the sun is setting around 4:15pm, Wind is an OK way to spend the evening.

 

[MauiPunter]

One of my favorite movies, but so is Star Wars. 

If you want reality, watch Capt. Ron.  That documentary is the best there is. 

 

[Somebody Else]

Don't forget Morning Light (2008) - some great footage in that one, and a decent real-life storyline. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198405/

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Morning Light turned into a salvage operation. The Cinema Verite aspects of the movie failed to produce enough real drama so the producers had to exaggerate and stretch out the parts of the story of interest to a general public.

The sailing and even the preparation parts are pretty good but I can't see a non-sailor being interested in it. I can't see non-sailors being interested in ANY sailing movies.

 

[Somebody Else]

One of my favorite movies, but so is Star Wars. 

If you want reality, watch Capt. Ron.  That documentary is the best there is. 

I, too, saw Capt. Ron as a documentary. Anyone who has skippered charters will eventually run into every one of the situations in that movie. In my case, it wasn't guerillas but rather American mercenaries on R&R from South Africa. The action wasn't entirely dissimilar...

 

[LB 15]

Sure it's camp if you do a lot of sailing, but when my girlfriend whose sailing experience was just booze cruises asked why the sheet was on the winch backwards I knew I had a keeper.

Why was the sheet around the winch backwards?

 

[Raz'r]

Why was the sheet around the winch backwards?

She may have noticed, but it actually wasn't backwards. For line geometry, some boats use counterrotating winches on each side. Just a guess, but that's what she saw. And I saw Wind last week, and yes, they were sailing upwind and the genoa winch was wrapped counter-clockwise. I didn't assume they fucked it up as they were actually sailing during the shot. I just assumed it was one of those backwards winches. They were sailing in Australia, after all!

 

[Snaggletooth]

I just assumed it was one of those backwards winches. They were sailing in Australia, after all!

Woudente it juste be upside dowen then?

 

[See Level]

She may have noticed, but it actually wasn't backwards. For line geometry, some boats use counterrotating winches on each side. Just a guess, but that's what she saw. And I saw Wind last week, and yes, they were sailing upwind and the genoa winch was wrapped counter-clockwise. I didn't assume they fucked it up as they were actually sailing during the shot. I just assumed it was one of those backwards winches. They were sailing in Australia, after all!

 

[Santanasailor]

I, too, saw Capt. Ron as a documentary. Anyone who has skippered charters will eventually run into every one of the situations in that movie. In my case, it wasn't guerillas but rather American mercenaries on R&R from South Africa. The action wasn't entirely dissimilar...

A bit off of the subject, but Blues Brothers is way to documentary for musicians.  Have two good friends, one, a drummer who for years had his own band and anther a fine bass player.  They have witnessed  just about every bad thing happened in that movie (except for the chase scenes.) 

 

[LB 15]

She may have noticed, but it actually wasn't backwards. For line geometry, some boats use counterrotating winches on each side. Just a guess, but that's what she saw. And I saw Wind last week, and yes, they were sailing upwind and the genoa winch was wrapped counter-clockwise. I didn't assume they fucked it up as they were actually sailing during the shot. I just assumed it was one of those backwards winches. They were sailing in Australia, after all!

All winches in Australia rotate clockwise. Until you cross the equator of course when they start going the other way.

 

[Spoonie]

All winches in Australia rotate clockwise. Until you cross the equator of course when they start going the other way.

Well there you go, from the man with experience.   I thought it was just like the compass thing. 

 

[Bill E Goat]

Sure it's camp if you do a lot of sailing, but when my girlfriend whose sailing experience was just booze cruises asked why the sheet was on the winch backwards I knew I had a keeper.

All modern ie post 1970 12's had headsail winches that were counterrotating, that way the sheet always ran to the gunwale side of the drum, TP 52's do it as well for runners and headsails

And any girlfriend who notices that IS a keeper

 

[Bump-n-Grind]

Deep Water.. about Donald Crowhurst is a pretty good documentary also...