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I wonder why, after watching the film, my wife asked me whether i would not like to go sailing again.. :hmmm:

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Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 2493055)

A bit OT, wanted to go to bed yesterday, but saw Robert Redford in a film on a yacht, and became interested.
Was the film "All is lost" from 2014, had not seen it before. About a single-handed sailor who's boat gets rammed by a garbage container, and his following fight in the leaking boat against the sea. Not mainstream cinema. One man, only saying two or three words in the whole film, but if you ever sailed such a boat it really gets intense.
Yes some flaws but not so Hollywood-like. Great film, for me :up:

https://www.quora.com/How-realistic-is-the-ocean-sailing-movie-All-is-lost
:doh:

^ there are other critics, of course. I also told my wife about all those unrealistic things, and blatantly unprofesional behaviour, but it was still interesting compared to what you see mostly.

Some things are real though, as a single-handed sailor you have to eat, you have to sleep, you need some warm place, and if you have no auto steering you have to stay on deck and get the boat through the storm, just rigging a drift anchor will not suffice.
The slightest mistake will get you in big trouble. When he lost the mast which put anther leak in the boat, if on deck level, he was completely exhausted. Going down for sleeping in that state and the boat doing an unexpected move will probably make you bang your head at something.
Did you see it?