EN PLEIN SOLEIL, Alain Delon in romantic trio on classic med sail yacht (?1962) (tl).
BURDEN OF DREAMS, Film, About the making of Fitzcaraldo.
FITZCARALDO, Film, Werner Herzog, director.
SAILING AROUND THE HORN, Captain Irving Johnson, video This is a fantasic videotape. You can order it from the Mystic Seaport bookstore/gift catalog. Here in San Francisco, they have it for sale at the Maritime Museum bookstore. Capt. Johnson's film documents a rounding of the Horn in 1929 (?) aboard the ``Peking'', a 4-masted barque from the famous Laiesz stable of giant square-riggers. Amazingly, three of them still survive: ``Pommern'' at the Mariehamn Museum in the Aland Islands, ``Peking'' at the South Street Seaport in New York and ``Padua'' - still afloat as the Soviet training ship ``Kruzenshtern''.
ANAPOLIS SAILING SCHOOL, John Rousmaniere, Five or six volumes on various aspects of sailing. A nice hands-on approach. I've only seen a couple of volumes, but I learned a *lot* in those two hours.
THE SHAPE OF SPEED, TRIM FOR SPEED, North Sails, Very good. I believe the latter is the newer one. It is shot on a J-35 which I crew. A number of the "rock stars" from North sails are on the boat in a race. There is dialog between the crew "Do you think we need a little more halyard tension?" Then they alter the halyard tension while showing the sail change shape. They go through basically all the controls that affect sail shape.(cp).
DRUM, Video, Sail around the world with the crew of Drum, the hard luck maxi owned in part by rock star Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran fame. Great sailing footage of the 1986 Whitbread Race, good music by Le Bon. One of my favorite sailing videos. (wms).