- Scott Foshee
Charleston, SC
--- "Krumpe, Andrew" <AKrumpe@dgo.com> wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> Last night my wife and I rented a movie called,
> "Kidnapped in Paradise." The
> scenery (Puerto Rico) was beautiful, the actors and
> actresses were good
> looking, the script wasn't the greatest, but the
> screenwriter's knowledge of
> sailing must have been nil. There is lot's of
> sailing action, but I don't
> know how they even got underway with commands like,
> "Let's raise the
> mainsheet," or with scenes showing a slight woman
> raising the mainsail on a
> 45-50 foot sloop (or ketch - I can't remember...).
> First the camera shows
> the sail going up... up....... about 10 feet from
> the masthead. Then it cuts
> to show the woman winching it up, and she's cranking
> ever so slowly and
> easily, smiling and flirting, and there's obviously
> no load on the line.
>
> Another scene has the 2 sisters fighting to the
> point of the landlubber
> asking to be brought back to the island. She and her
> sister now hate each
> other, and she wants her sister and her fiancée to
> take her back to the main
> island. They're out anchored in some secluded cove
> on another island, it's
> night, and the fiancée gets on the VHF and says,
> "This is the vessel _______
> (I forget). We are anchored in _________ cove on
> __________ island. We are
> requesting anyone to come pick up a passenger to
> take back to the main
> island." Hmmm, if I were that woman, I'd really
> begin to wonder how
> reality-based the screenwriters were...
>
> Anyway, the plot is predictable and the performances
> are... eh, but it's fun
> to watch if for no other reason than showing us all
> how much we really DO
> know about sailboats. Does anyone else have any
> other stupid boating movies
> they could recommend? Thanks.
>
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> Andrew Krumpe
> WWP 19 "Great Wight"
> Portsmouth, NH
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