If you haven't seen The Boat by Buster Keaton, it's a treat.
There are many lessons to be learned in this film, from basement construction, to anchor selection, to heavy weather sailing. Also, the film explores possible implications of naming your boat DAMFINO.
Print isn't perfect, and no music, but here's Part I of III:
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Having seen this a few times, there's no question in my mind that Buster Keaton must have been a boater back in the 1920s, or before. Also, wouldn't wrecking one's home be a good opportunity to do some family sailing?
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Freedom comes when you’re ready to sail away. True freedom comes when you don’t have to return
Cut off from the land that bore us, betrayed by the land we find, where the brightest have gone before us and the dullest remain behind, .......but stand to your glasses, steady,.......tis all we have left to prize, raise a cup to the dead already, hurrah for the next that dies
The Damfinos is the name of the International Buster Keaton Society, and there were three boats in Keaton's life named Damfino. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, fishing and boating as a boy:
(Keaton is second from left, holding the fish, in 1910.)
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The Damfinos is the name of the International Buster Keaton Society, and there were three boats in Keaton's life named Damfino. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, fishing and boating as a boy:
(Keaton is second from left, holding the fish, in 1910.)
Sorry Jim, I was still drying my eyes when I posted.
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