Film and DVD links and reviews

Red Sails film Directed by Michael Maloney

2024-01-16T11:51:48+00:00July 22nd, 2023|Books, Snugberth Cinema|

The rebuilt Thames Sailing Barge Cambria features heavily in this film, which is all about the so-called TSBs – their role in trade which has now developed into charter mainly around the waters of the Thames Estuary. And this is not surprising, since director Michael Maloney lives in Faversham, where Cambria was restored. The film [...]

Ocean Film Festival will show seven films

2021-07-07T21:51:25+01:00July 7th, 2021|Snugberth Cinema|

This autumn the Ocean Film Festival World Tour returns to the UK with a clutch of Live theatre shows: September - November 2021. Here's the trailer:     The Festival has a brand-new collection of the world’s most inspirational ocean-themed films, from below and above the surface. Returning as a live theatre tour, [...]

Cornwall on film in 1916

2020-11-06T11:20:37+00:00October 7th, 2020|Heritage, Snugberth Cinema|

From the BFI library of film this shows maritime Cornwall at the height of the first world war. Clips show Looe, Polperro, St Ives (with artist!) and children climbing over the wreck of a boat. Despite conscription having been introduced in March that year fishermen were largely exempt from the draft as theirs was considered [...]

Bill King on Galway Blazer, 1968 Golden Globe Race

2020-11-06T11:21:02+00:00May 14th, 2020|Heritage, Life Afloat, Snugberth Cinema|

An elegiac film on Cdr Bill King RN who entered the 1968 Golden Globe race in his cold-moulded two masted junk rig schooner Galway Blazer II. With no shrouds or guard rails it looks a frightening boat to be on deck, especially looking at that camber but King rigged a wire jackstay from stem to [...]

Arthur, Nancy… and me

2020-11-06T11:21:27+00:00December 15th, 2019|Heritage, Snugberth Cinema|

The boat that inspired Arthur Ransome. Peter Willis talks to Dan Houston about his lifelong passion for the children's author Arthur Ransome and his 1931 Hillyard cutter Nancy Blackett. Peter was recognised in the 2019 Royal Yachting Association Volunteer Awards with a Lifetime Commitment Award for his 22 years with the Nancy Blackett Trust, [...]

Maurice Bailey talks about his 117days adrift

2020-11-06T11:21:33+00:00November 28th, 2019|Snugberth Cinema|

This is a lovely short film, by Alvaro Cerezo, featuring the late Maurice Bailey who, with his wife Maralyn spent 117 days adrift in a liferaft in the Pacific Ocean in 1972. The couple sold everything to buy their boat and left the UK heading for a new life in New Zealand. Their Golden Hind [...]

Charlotte – A Wooden Boat Story

2020-11-06T11:21:45+00:00October 24th, 2019|Snugberth Cinema|

2011, Dir Jeffrey Kusuma-Hinte, 96 mins This film charts the life of the Gannon & Benjamin boatyard on Martha's Vineyard – the island off Massachusetts, where they restore wooden boats and have built a series of traditional schooners. Charlotte was the project for partner Nat Benjamin, designed and built as his own boat and launched in [...]

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