Category: Our Stories

  • Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    1956, Dir: John Huston, Moulin Productions, PG, 110 mins Several versions of this film have been made, and the most recent was in 2010 starring William Hurt, Ethan Hawke and Donald Sutherland. There is also… […]

  • All Is Lost

    All Is Lost

    2013 Dir: JC Chandor 106 mins This is a contentious review because many sailors just hate this film. It has a cast, of one – Robert Redford, who has about one main word of dialogue… […]

  • Knife in the Water

    Knife in the Water

    1962, Dir Roman Polanski, B&W, Anchor Bay, DVD, PG, 90 mins This black and white film from behind the iron curtain in 1962 is quite a revelation. Like: they had yachts in Communist states? Who… […]

  • Lifeboat

    Lifeboat

    1944 Dir: Alfred Hitchcock  97 mins In the genre of Hitchcock’s “limited setting” films (think also Rear Window, Rope) this is an underrated classic. It’s set entirely on a lifeboat full of, at the beginning,… […]

  • The Perfect Storm

    The Perfect Storm

    2000 Dir: Wolfgang Petersen 130 mins This is a film, based on a true story that sits in a certain time spot. People with no interest in the sea went to see this film in… […]

  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    2003, Dir Peter Weir, Universal Studios and Miramax, PG-13, 138 mins Sailors and fans of Patrick O Brian’s series of novels of the Georgian Navy love this film and it’s one to buy and re-watch… […]

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    1958 Dir: John Sturges, 86 mins Hemingway’s last great novel of 1952 is required reading for anyone who goes boating; even lake sailors love this great tale of the sea and its unreliable bounty. The… […]

  • Wind

    Wind

    1992 Director Carrol Ballard 126min The eternally preppy Matthew Modine and a fresh faced Jennifer Grey star in this fictional but far from standard losing everything and winning it all back  film about the America’s… […]

  • The African Queen

    The African Queen

    1952, Dir: John Huston, Horizon/Romulus Cert U, 105 mins This legendary Technicolour Boy’s Own adventure, set in 1914 German East Africa, is a love story cleverly wrapped in an intrepid river journey. Bogart plays a… […]