Sailing/boating movies

[Kernix]

A spin-off of the "recommended reading" sticky - what are the best sailing movies, pirate movies or movies of the sea. I think I asked this somewhere else - here's my list:

The Boatniks
The Buccaneer both the 1938 & 1958 versions
Captain Ron
Captains Courageous
Captain Pirate
Das Boat
Dead Calm
Don Street
Dove
The Four Seasons
Knife in Water
Latitude - PBS
Masquerade
Master & Commander
Mutiny on the Bounty
Pirates of the Caribbean series
Shackleton - PBS
Treasure Island with Charlton Heston
White Squall
Wind
The Visitors

General boating:
Jaws
The African Queen
Twilight Zone: Passage on the Lady Anne

Did I miss any.

Scenes: i like the scenes aboard the Tweedle Dee in Joe vs. the Volcano

[Sailormon6]

You named most of my favorites. You could add the Horatio Hornblower series, because they described some interesting naval battle tactics of the day. I think they were also PBS.

[Kernix]

I remember seeing that - 4 pt series or so - liked it a lot

[Pamlicotraveler]

Shouldn't Titanic be on the list?

[kwaltersmi]

White Squal is a great movie...my favorite on the list above.

[sailingforever]

I didn't think that Captains Courageous was that great. they changed it a lot fro the book

[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by Pamlicotraveler

Shouldn't Titanic be on the list?

Never saw any sails on the Titanic... besides, it is really just a vehicle for a romance...rather than a movie about boats or boating...

[SailinJay]

You mean Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner didn't make the list??!! There was also some sailing in What About Bob, Wedding Crashers, and Failure to Launch.

True trivia--the schooner named the Woodwind that was used in Wedding Crashers was the actual Woodwind of Woodwind Tours, based in Annapolis. They filmed a number of scenes in St. Michaels, MD. There are two boats (the other is Woodwind II) and they're out all the time on the Bay near Annapolis. Great looking boats.

[sailingdog]

Of course, WaterWorld should be on the list... Kevin's trimaran was a very neat beastie... with a ballista and the pop-out wind generator.

[btrayfors]

"The Weight of Water" with Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Penn - great ambiance and, esp., foredeck scene :-)

"Ghost Ship" unfortunately not likely to make the list, despite Julianna Margulies' valiant attempts.