Ian McColgin
04-06-2007, 06:17 AM
Marmalade and I made our first sail of the season out and about Hyannis Port. The mission was to survey the bottom for Hindu, that was being shot for some green screening. We were out about an hour after high tide and the value of getting Hindu close to the camera in an artist's studio tower ashore had to be mediated by the value of not leaving her stranded.
They were finding Marmalade pretty cool as well to the actor-stand-in transferred to us and we did a few graceful tacks and shot a mooring. They liked that so much that today's mission will be for me to do that single-handed like the end of a nice day's sail. I look enough like the star from the back and the shots can be done so I don't have to mangle my beard.
I'm gonna go out early and practice as three month's of no sailing leaves my timing a bit rusty, going forward (especially over cold water) is a non-starter, and Marmalade is a bit psycho when held by the head with sail up.
The approach will not be what the director - who has only marconi small sloop experience - has in mind. I can't just luff up, walk to the bow, and pick up. I'll actually come up a nudge high of the mooring, drop the sail to luff at third reef and gaff horizontal, and then fall off. I'll ease past the mooring on a tight-reach-near-heave-to, pluck it from the cockpit and attach a line that's fast to the bow, then round her up sharply dropping the sail the rest of the way.
Catboat style.
Then we sail to Chatham for more pix.
They were finding Marmalade pretty cool as well to the actor-stand-in transferred to us and we did a few graceful tacks and shot a mooring. They liked that so much that today's mission will be for me to do that single-handed like the end of a nice day's sail. I look enough like the star from the back and the shots can be done so I don't have to mangle my beard.
I'm gonna go out early and practice as three month's of no sailing leaves my timing a bit rusty, going forward (especially over cold water) is a non-starter, and Marmalade is a bit psycho when held by the head with sail up.
The approach will not be what the director - who has only marconi small sloop experience - has in mind. I can't just luff up, walk to the bow, and pick up. I'll actually come up a nudge high of the mooring, drop the sail to luff at third reef and gaff horizontal, and then fall off. I'll ease past the mooring on a tight-reach-near-heave-to, pluck it from the cockpit and attach a line that's fast to the bow, then round her up sharply dropping the sail the rest of the way.
Catboat style.
Then we sail to Chatham for more pix.