Adrift, the movie

[capn blood]

Saw this movie last night.

Granted, I’m a wannabe sailor (I’ve been surviving on rations of Yachtword and CF for the past 5 years), but I just couldn’t understand why anyone would sail that area in October.

Am I missing something? Entirely possible since I know nothing. Seems borderline suicidal.

[vlathom]

I saw the movie and liked it.....and I'm hard to please. I found the shifting time frames the only way to tell this story.

[Jdege]

Originally Posted by capn blood

Saw this movie last night.

Granted, I’m a wannabe sailor (I’ve been surviving on rations of Yachtword and CF for the past 5 years), but I just couldn’t understand why anyone would sail that area in October.

Am I missing something? Entirely possible since I know nothing. Seems borderline suicidal.

If it was an easy sail in good weather, the owners would have made the trip themselves, instead of hiring a delivery skipper.

[Skeezix]

Originally Posted by Baba Buoy

What got me in giggles in "Gravity", was the actress playing an astronaut was wearing a sports bra the entire movie. In zero gravity. Really?

While boobs (and everything else) are unaffected by gravity in orbit, the laws of momentum still apply. A brick may be weightless but you'd not want it tossed at your head. Any woman with sizeable boobs will explain to you what happens when they turn quickly, or how they must avoid corners and edges. If I were a woman I think I'd wear sports bras exclusively and to hell with fashion.

[vlathom]

I'm hard to please, but I thought "Adrift" was one of the better sea-going movies I've seen. I was not disappointed.

[mglonnro]

This movie appeared on iTunes just recently (in Finland)! Going to watch it today but I'm afraid it might give me nightmares

(I haven't had any sailing related nightmares in a long time but when I sailed more before, my subconscious produced this recurring dream where we're going forward with good speed when I suddenly notice we're in the middle of a belt of semisubmerged rocks )

[MV Wanderlust]

We watched it last weekend and thought it was pretty good.

[mglonnro]

Yes, it was really good!

EDIT: Far better than the Redford movie, I thought. It should have a higher IMDb rating

[Baba Buoy]

Doubt it very much if there is any quick motion in a space station. I am glad you are not a woman.

[Mag79]

it defently worth watching it . Then if you will find superbomb or just good movie it based on personal taste. but i think you shoud watch it .

[rsn48]

For some reason most boaters in British Columbia coastal waters didn't have radios in the early and mid eighties. I have been reading older Pacific Yachting magazines and radios back then were expensive and some only had 12 channels available according to adverts, and these models in today's dollars, just did a conversion, sold for $2300.

A buddy of mine single handed his 37 CT over 45 days at sea with no radio back in the mid eighties.

[Tillsbury]

Finally got around to watching this the other day. All the obvious things as shown above, but certainly the actual post-storm shots below decks were particularly good. The film shows the skipper knowing very little about how to sail and Tami even less, but that’s all been hashed over above.

Fortunately, my wife actually quite liked the movie. I half-wondered if it would turn her off sailing forever, as I know that finding me missing on deck is one of her nightmares. But no, she was just shouting “why aren’t you clipped on?”, “why do you have those sails up?” at the screen...

Also, as she is a vegetarian too, she was wondering why preparations for a 30-day voyage included tins of sardines and spam and not a lot else...

[thomm225]

What type boat was Richard's Mayaluga in the movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIL2_89ujI4

[44'cruisingcat]

Originally Posted by Tillsbury

Finally got around to watching this the other day.....

Also, as she is a vegetarian too, she was wondering why preparations for a 30-day voyage included tins of sardines and spam and not a lot else...

Us too. And yes, we wondered about a boat provisioned for two people for a month running low on food with one person aboard for 40 odd days.

[Jdege]

Originally Posted by 44'cruisingcat

Us too. And yes, we wondered about a boat provisioned for two people for a month running low on food with one person aboard for 40 odd days.

I'd have to figure that a lot of their non-canned food would have been ruined by seawater contaminated by whatever was in the bilge.

And I hate to think how much mold would have been growing, below decks, after a week or two...