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Cape Horn as you have never seen it...
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:05 pm
by astrorad
Think that you are tough??? Think that you have it rough??? Well watch this video and thank your lucky stars for the soft life you lead!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RfuGKXOkB4
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:02 am
by Chrysler20%26
Thanks that was great, now I love sailing, but not that much.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:18 am
by mcrandall
That's one great video! Loved the narration. Reminded me of the old b&w newsreels.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:24 am
by Traveler
WOW!!!! Everyone should watch this. It is one of the best videos I have ever
seen. Thank you so much for posting the link. I would never have found it otherwise. What those guys went thru is hard to believe but very exciting. And what a beautiful ship. Regards, Jeff
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:26 am
by Chrysler20%26
Some of the sailers of that era that sailed in to New York became ironworkers. They were thought to be fearless, and help to build the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:47 pm
by Ty
A great video of the fearless men of history. Wouldn't OSHA love this! Thanks for the video.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:31 pm
by FranS
Sadly Peking now sits deteriorating at dock at NY's South Street Seaport. I spent some time working as a volunteer on her about 10 years ago.
Cape Horn Movie
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:32 pm
by BC
I was in college in the seventies when Cap'n Irving Johnson came thru on the college circuit showing that film at various theaters. He narrated it from behind a podium. He must have been in his seventies then, but you could feel his energy when talking about his sailing adventures with college aged kids. I wonder how many people where positively influenced by him and his wife. An amazing couple.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:18 pm
by cs3079
Absolutely amazing documentary! Thanks for sharing this one. As much as I love sailing, I think I'd have to take a pass on a voyage like that. I'm more of a Margaritaville type sailor, LOL
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:35 pm
by astrorad
Well it looks like the greedy Capitalist green eyed monster has caught up with this video and alas it is no longer available.
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:57 am
by cs3079
Capitalist green eyed monster
Yea! ... and, uh, oh, it was a bootlegged video, um, um, oops, they pulled the plug... I linked to it too on the Daysailer web site
Glad it was posted though or I would have never known of the Mystic Seaport Museum??? (sounds like the stereotypical tourist trap, LOL).
Hopefully the faux pas will draw some of us to visit there in CT:
http://www.mysticseaport.org/
Has anyone been there? I hope I can stop in sometime when I'm by that way. They have many other interesting vids on their site for free legal viewing, unfortunately that one was for sale
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:46 am
by lecker68
Great Video.