Wood Sails Dreams Deluxe Edition
This DELUXE PACKAGE includes EXTRA interviews with boat builders, with the founder of WoodenBoat magazine, and a look at the restoration of the 131-foot schooner Coronet, launched in 1885.
Building boats out of trees, to be powered by the wind, is an act of grace in our digitally enhanced, throwaway culture. Look at the lines of any number of the classic sailboats in Wood Sails Dreams (60 min, 2013) and you will see it is also a moment of art. Meet the people who build or restore boats, who sail them, who wrap their lives around them, and you will find the passion deep in the soul of wooden sailboats.
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Wood Sails Dreams
55m
The act of building boats out of trees, to be powered by the wind, is an ancient craft and a small moment of grace in the face of a digitally enhanced world and a throwaway culture. Wood Sails Dreams explores the resurgence of the wooden boat culture, beginning in the early 1970s.
Narrated by ...
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WSD EXTRA boat builders
11m
Sail into Vineyard Haven, MA, Bristol, RI, and Maine's Penobscot Bay, for an ongoing conversation with five of the best traditional wooden boat builders on the east coast. Boats build or restored in these yards run the gamut from cat boats to sloops designed for blue water sailing. A Woods Sails ...
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WSD EXTRA Jon Wison, founder of WoodenBoat magazine
9m 27s
A Wood Sails Dreams EXTRA
Jon Wilson was there at that moment in the early 1970s, when fiberglass boats threatened to push wooden boats to the edge of extinction. He began WoodenBoat magazine, working out of his van in Maine, the magazine's telephone nailed to a tree. His work has been part of w... -
WSD EXTRA Coronet restoration
6m 17s
Wood Sails Dreams EXTRA
The 131-foot schooner yacht Coronet was launched in 1885, and made famous after beating the yacht Dauntless in a $10,000 transatlantic match race two years later.Since 1995 it was been undergoing restoration at the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS), in New...
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4 videosWood Sails Dreams Deluxe Edition
4 videos
This DELUXE PACKAGE includes EXTRA interviews with boat builders, with the founder of WoodenBoat magazine, and a look at the restoration of the 131-foot schooner Coronet, launched in 1885.
Building boats out of trees, to be powered by the wind, is an act of grace in our digitally enhanced, thr...