I did not want to hijack the earlier thread on this video clip so I started a new one...
I could not stop thinking about this video... it was haunting and inspiring at the same time... I really liked it but...it occurs to me that there are some strange inconsistencies. For instance the scene where he is finally leaving his boat. Supposedly, he was the very last person to leave the boat... that was the point of the scene... and he signs the coach roof with a sharpy pen as a final good by to his beloved Bubbles....so who was running the camera? And then he kisses his boat on the vinyl lettering as he is leaving the dock... and the paint job and vinyl lettering look brand new.... exceptionally brand new!!!!! Not a boat that has spent the last three years on the water sailing around the world. And then he seems to have a beard in one scene and no beard in the next only to have the beard again in the subsequent scene etc.
I'm not saying the video is fraudulent but I am suspecting that some scenes were recreations for dramatic effect. Also makes me wonder if some of the other claims about his novice status were over stated? Seriously, how could a guy and and a bunch of part -time newbi crew sail around the world knowing nothing about sailing and not get someone killed? or run aground? need a tow? have a catastrophic failure? etc. I suspect he was very smart and learned a lot more from his first BVI cruise than he credited.
I could not stop thinking about this video... it was haunting and inspiring at the same time... I really liked it but...it occurs to me that there are some strange inconsistencies. For instance the scene where he is finally leaving his boat. Supposedly, he was the very last person to leave the boat... that was the point of the scene... and he signs the coach roof with a sharpy pen as a final good by to his beloved Bubbles....so who was running the camera? And then he kisses his boat on the vinyl lettering as he is leaving the dock... and the paint job and vinyl lettering look brand new.... exceptionally brand new!!!!! Not a boat that has spent the last three years on the water sailing around the world. And then he seems to have a beard in one scene and no beard in the next only to have the beard again in the subsequent scene etc.
I'm not saying the video is fraudulent but I am suspecting that some scenes were recreations for dramatic effect. Also makes me wonder if some of the other claims about his novice status were over stated? Seriously, how could a guy and and a bunch of part -time newbi crew sail around the world knowing nothing about sailing and not get someone killed? or run aground? need a tow? have a catastrophic failure? etc. I suspect he was very smart and learned a lot more from his first BVI cruise than he credited.