This is the best video that i have seen of the old sailing ship sailing the Horn, i love it i too wish i could have been there an aboard.Thanks for a great video.
This is the best video that i have seen of the old sailing ship sailing the Horn, i love it i too wish i could have been there an aboard.Thanks for a great video.
Terrific footage, but wish it specified the ships being filmed. Some of the footage reminded me of stills of Herzogin Cecilie and Beatrice, but I'd have to haul out all my Villiers books and even then doubt I could make any positive ID. Grace Harwar makes sense ... am hoping that somebody can shed more light on the subject.
The one thing I'm almost certain about is that these were Erikson ships.
It would truly take balls of cast iron to be out on those yard arms in seas like that.
No safety harness and with the ship rolling up to 30 degrees.
I've been up a bosun's chair to retrieve a main halyard on a 40-ft. sailboat in a calm harbor. Pretty high up there. The wake from even a Boston Whaler makes a truly sickening amount of telescopic roll at the top. In these seas out over those yard arms... Wow.
I just finished reading Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" This is great footage to imagine what it must have been like. Although this is a steel hull ship, and the sailors clothes are well improved from Dana's time. The diary is from his sailing in 1836 - wooden ships, iron men. And those poor sailors had to make their own clothes back then.
@JamesVibe Think back on one aspect of that book -- how many times they were surprised by bad weather. I'd been a racing sailor and done some Great Lakes cruising when I read the book, and that element really unnerved me. Take away the satellites and global communication, GPS and such, and suddenly you want to be very cautious about taking on the planet like that for a living.
@kenyakimbo There are "tall ships" in a lot of ports that allow people to come aboard as a crew member to learn how to sail them. Google around a coast near you.
Fuck that! 200 foot up a mast in 60 foot seas without a safety harness? I'd have given my eye teeth to have stayed on land ;-) But you should read "The Last Grain Race" for an account of what it could be like.
someone knows whats the name from this documental ????? awesome
falmonacidc 1 day ago
i sae the full footage of that at a museum and it was soo amazing what they had to survive through
cheeseyunicorn358 2 months ago
No harness, no life vest, and a small wooden life-boat that would swamp in those waves....
baddogonline 3 months ago
Even in the age of steel hulls and automated sails, it takes a lot of skill, experience and guts to sail the Untamed and succeed.
BadBoy1986PL 8 months ago
Those guys were brave!
BoudiccaBlanc 8 months ago
This is the best video that i have seen of the old sailing ship sailing the Horn, i love it i too wish i could have been there an aboard.Thanks for a great video.
When men were men doing there job.
veronika8904 9 months ago
This is the best video that i have seen of the old sailing ship sailing the Horn, i love it i too wish i could have been there an aboard.Thanks for a great video.
veronika8904 9 months ago
Filmed back when men were allowed to work like MEN.
randbinak 9 months ago 5
@randbinak If you are interested I could recommend "The last grain race" by Eric Newby.
He sailed as an apprentice on the Braque "Moshulu" in 1939
zitadel1 2 weeks ago
I would give up everything to 'be back in time' on one of those ships.
UTubeisSHIT523441 10 months ago
Just one ball off of any of these sea-going men is harder than the fairies that we have today.
njtr 11 months ago
Terrific footage, but wish it specified the ships being filmed. Some of the footage reminded me of stills of Herzogin Cecilie and Beatrice, but I'd have to haul out all my Villiers books and even then doubt I could make any positive ID. Grace Harwar makes sense ... am hoping that somebody can shed more light on the subject.
The one thing I'm almost certain about is that these were Erikson ships.
RosaMundi 1 year ago 2
It would truly take balls of cast iron to be out on those yard arms in seas like that.
No safety harness and with the ship rolling up to 30 degrees.
I've been up a bosun's chair to retrieve a main halyard on a 40-ft. sailboat in a calm harbor. Pretty high up there. The wake from even a Boston Whaler makes a truly sickening amount of telescopic roll at the top. In these seas out over those yard arms... Wow.
Nacho66 1 year ago
My great-uncle was the captain of one of the boats in this film - the Grace Harwar.
seniorhas1 1 year ago
The film is made by Alan J. Villiers.
TorbenGalster 1 year ago
I just finished reading Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" This is great footage to imagine what it must have been like. Although this is a steel hull ship, and the sailors clothes are well improved from Dana's time. The diary is from his sailing in 1836 - wooden ships, iron men. And those poor sailors had to make their own clothes back then.
JamesVibe 1 year ago
@JamesVibe Think back on one aspect of that book -- how many times they were surprised by bad weather. I'd been a racing sailor and done some Great Lakes cruising when I read the book, and that element really unnerved me. Take away the satellites and global communication, GPS and such, and suddenly you want to be very cautious about taking on the planet like that for a living.
Dayepipes 11 months ago
If you search folk irish music you're certain to find it. The Bodrahn is very predominant in this piece, so search that first.
Edelwulf 1 year ago
Do you know what this song is called? It should like be the soundtrack of every damn sailing video.
nallepuh6969 1 year ago
Amazing.
gairid 1 year ago
This is no country for old men
neuro518 1 year ago
Irving Johnson's old films from the Peking. Astonishing. You should hear the narration!
Artemetra 1 year ago
i would give my eye teeth to be able to go back in time and sail aboard ship like that
kenyakimbo 2 years ago 15
@kenyakimbo ....agreed ... the good ol days
groombridge34 1 year ago
@kenyakimbo There are "tall ships" in a lot of ports that allow people to come aboard as a crew member to learn how to sail them. Google around a coast near you.
tomperanteau 1 year ago
@kenyakimbo
You can still do it on tall ship cruises.
But I doubt if the cruise company would want a group of landlubbers trying to take her around the horn.
BoudiccaBlanc 8 months ago
@kenyakimbo Keep your eye and teeth and take part of the Tall Ships Races 2012.
StaEstonia 5 months ago
@StaEstonia also solution
RavenDestroyer 4 months ago
@kenyakimbo if you aren't lucky you will loose your teeth there
RavenDestroyer 4 months ago
@kenyakimbo
Fuck that! 200 foot up a mast in 60 foot seas without a safety harness? I'd have given my eye teeth to have stayed on land ;-) But you should read "The Last Grain Race" for an account of what it could be like.
DamoSuzuki100 3 months ago
@kenyakimbo
YARRR.
SireSquish 2 months ago