"Failure to Launch"

[Justin_NSA]

The title to the movie is sort of a play on words considering that the background for the story involves sailboats.
Anyone else see the movie? What is the wooden boat at the end that they sail away on? It has a horizontal wheel. I think I read somewhere that the boat is called "Spellbound".
The story was interesting (to me) on different levels. Something a non-sailor might miss

Failure to Launch (2006) - IMDb

Failure to Launch (2006) Matthew McConaughey as Tripp

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[Will Gilmore]

2015 MAY CLASSIC SAILBOAT OF THE MONTH – Edmund A. Cutts SPELLBOUND

LOA: 47’0″ / 14.32m – LOD: 44’0″ / 13.41m 0 LWL: 37’0″ / 11.27m – Beam 10’10” / 3.07m – Draft 3’9” / 1.18m (centerboard) – Hull Number: – Designer: Edmund A. Cutts – Original Owner: Abe Oberlin, New York, N.Y. – Current Owner: Cutts and Case, Inc – Year Launched: 1970 – Built By: Cutts and Case, Oxford, MD – Hull Material: Vertically framed, bronze strapped – Gross Displacement: – Sail Number: – Documentation Number: 550570

Edmund A. Cutts, friend and disciple of L.Francis Herreshoff, designed and built SPELLBOUND for Abe Oberlin of New York City.

Edmund A. Cutts, a self taught designer like the Herreshoffs and Stephens, and innovator of the Cutts method of yacht construction, built SPELLBOUND with no wooden keel. the centerboard casing is constructed out of bronze, resting on a gasket on top of the lead ballast. Vertically framed with bronze strapping brought well up from the garboards.

The resulting design is beautiful and timeless, and was featured in director Tom Dey’s 2006 Paramount Pictures movie FAILURE TO LAUNCH.

Sailboat of the Month - Classic Sailboats

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Sefuller]

She certainly is yar

 

[millerz03]

Yeah, it's a great movie..