Boats in Movies, which ones can you name?

[Don Z.]

My name's Ron Rico... but my friends all call me Captain Ron.



And wasn't there a beautiful boat in the beginning of The Final Countdown? Shot up by a Zero, I think. May have been a Chris Craft.

[Soundbounder]

Overboard (1978) starring Angie Dickinson and Cliff Robertson. Two Sea Witches were used in the film:

Sea Forth was used for filming in Tahiti
http://www.heritech.com/seawitch/seaforth.htm

Southern Cross was used for filming in Newport Beach
http://www.heritech.com/seawitch/southerncross.htm




Have I mentioned that Angie Dickinson is in the movie?

[Lew Barrett]

And wasn't there a beautiful boat in the beginning of The Final Countdown? Shot up by a Zero, I think. May have been a Chris Craft.

Elco Flattop, probably 50 foot. Go to 1:09 or so for the details. Around 2:25 shows a decent glimpse of the actual vessel. I suspect a good amount of the footage is pretty phony! Quite appropriate to use a Flattop given the theme of the movie, eh?

[TerryLL]

The Arthur Foss in Tugboat Annie.

[Soundbounder]

40' BlueWater MY used in Carlito's Way is for sale

http://www.atlanticyachtandship.com/...tor-yacht.html

I'll pass.

[Willin']

Wow, I'd almost forgotten Tugboat Annie. What did she call her rival? Bullstinkle?

That's one I'd like to review to see if it holds up.

The Arthur Foss in Tugboat Annie.

[Bob Adams]

Elco Flattop, probably 50 foot. Go to 1:09 or so for the details. Around 2:25 shows a decent glimpse of the actual vessel. I suspect a good amount of the footage is pretty phony! Quite appropriate to use a Flattop given the theme of the movie, eh?

Ah yes, Gatsby. She was for sale on the Chesapeake recently, a model was blown up for the movie. She was formally owned by a new formite, Steve Smith (Capt. Steve on the Italian powerboat thread). The real damage happened a few years ago when a well meaning owner spent 1/2 million dollars "modernizing" her.

[Soundbounder]

The Hyak was in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, owned by Jack and Ted Herford of Depoe Bay.
I believe she sank off Washington 20 or so years ago.

[Lew Barrett]

The real damage happened a few years ago when a well meaning owner spent 1/2 million dollars "modernizing" her.

Ouch! Elcos are mighty fine vessels, first rate factory built boats.

[timo4352]

Oh Man, unless I missed it mentioned previously - The African Queen - has to be remembered by almost everyone.

[JimConlin]

Of course,

in Buster Keaton's 'The Boat' (1921)

[TerryLL]

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

A fine pair of Caledonia Yawls waiting on the set for their cameo appearance.

[Soundbounder]

Oh Man, unless I missed it mentioned previously - The African Queen - has to be remembered by almost everyone.

Just read this:

KEY LARGO --Take one look at the African Queen, with its rope fender rail and steam boiler, and it’s easy to conjure images of gin-swigging Capt. Charlie Allnut pulling it through the leech-infested waters of the Ulanga River with prim but gutsy missionary Rosie Sayer aboard.

The 30-foot riverboat, which lent her name and presence to the 1951 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is looking mighty good these days. And just in time for her 100th birthday celebration.

Story & Video:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/0...can.html#moreb

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[Concordia 33]

The Concordia yawl that was hauled out in Message in a Bottle was the MARGARET, owned by my buddy Bob, who later had to sue the movie company to get them to bring her back to the shape in which she had arrived...at least that's what he told me. My Swamscot Dory was in a terrible Sandra Bullock flim (I can't recall the name) where she played a detective that lived on a houseboat that was on the dock at the MBYC..it appeared for about a nano-second.

Actually there were two bright finish Concordias and as Margo stated, Arapaho was the second one. They removed her bridge deck for the film and the current owner has the bridge deck but chose to leave her with the full compaionway

Arapaho, was that the one that caught fire a few years back? I seem to remember reading that on the forum somewhere, or was that another boat?

The Concordia that caught fire was Abaco, not Arapaho. There is a thread in the forum on Abaco's restoration.


http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...t=#post3274686 scroll to the bottom to see some photos before and during restoration.

[Michael D. Storey]

Remember Gardiner McKay in Adventures in Paradise?



The boats name was the Tiki III IIRC.



That's a show I wish Hollywood would remake.

It is my understanding that he was related to Donald McKay

[TR]

Next year you can take the kids to see Jeff Bridges row around in a Pogy in Howe Sound.......the secret is he may not actually be rowing........

[Arko]

There was a boat in a movie with Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, 3000 miles to graceland. The name of the boat, in the movie, was GRACELAND. Don't know what it is but it was in there right at the very end of the movie. Anybody?

[umut]

Hello everybody,
can someone tell which brand and model this boat is. The picture is from the movie "the incredible shrinking man"
the picture is photoshoped to remove the subtitles and people on the boat
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9...odelinedir.jpg

Thanks in advance

[pcford]

Hello everybody,
can someone tell which brand and model this boat is. The picture is from the movie "the incredible shrinking man"
the picture is photoshoped to remove the subtitles and people on the boat
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9...odelinedir.jpg

Thanks in advance

Steelcraft?

[Ted Hoppe]

Moonrise kingdom... Quirky movie with interesting boats and canoes.



Look around 1:16 for this cute catboat .

[CrosbyStriper]

Looks like a Beetle Cat to me.

[CrosbyStriper]

The 1986 Movie "One Crazy Summer" starring John Cuasck, Demi Moore, etc. Feature 2 Crosby Stripers in the movie.

The first one (First two pictures) was used for the scenes where a boat washed up on the beach, and the group claims the derelict to rebuild it.

A completely different boat, (last 2 pictures) was sued for the re-conditioned boat scenes.

The washed up boat was broken up by the movie set following production, and the refurbished boat sat around after production for several year
s until it was sold after production, changed hands a few times, and the boat was modified so severely, and was covered in rot, and was destroyed about 1995 at a local Cape boatyard

[jimkeen]

Freedom Schooner Amistad

http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.c...C506D310A9DA0B

[jonboy]

post 29 mentions the runabout in Some like it Hot.. looks like an early chriscraft or hacker, but with three exhausts or maybe inlets poking upwards out of the engine case??... saw the movie the other day on the classics channel on an AC flight to Calgary couldn't concentrate due to MM's erm, ...sheerline...or two outlets poking upwards out of the engine case...

Movie set in '29, made in the late fifties...What was it ???

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Key Largo...

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Hurricane IV, in Magnificent Obsession with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman...

[Dannybb55]

At one time, I was on a few movie-makers' rolodexes and I'd get calls for a particular type of vessel needed for location shots in the SF Bay Area. I once spent a day on a powerboat driving Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot") and some bimbo arm-ornament all over SF Bay doing location scouting for some movie. They wouldn't say what the movie was about and Petersen just kept saying, "No, that's not what I'm looking for... I'll know it when I see it." Went from one funky marina to another all day. The studio lunch and champagne was great, though and I got paid. Petersen didn't know diddly about anything maritime, but it was his dime, so I've got no gripe.

Another time, I connected Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions with the Redwood City Sea Scouts. Eastwood was making "Escape From Alcatraz" on which I was a technical advisor on the prison stuff. One of the set dressers said they were having a hard time finding a boat to use as the "Warden Johnson," the water taxi that used to run from the City to the prison carrying prisoners and staff. I told them I could probably get them the real one to use if they wanted it. They went nuts. It was the Redwood City Sea Scout Base boat. The movie company had it hauled and completely refinished professionally for the Scouts at what must have been huge bucks. As I recall, it was on screen for less than 30 seconds!

Just last year a little Elco-lookiing 1920's derelict hulk showed up in the yard where I hang out. It was totally beyond repair. A crew then started tacking masonite or something all over the stove in bottom and gluing some sort of plastic sheeting on it. Everybody was rolling their eyes. They they did this faux paint job on it topside, even to the point of faux wood grain on the plywood they'd nailed to the deck. I saw it back in the water in a slip with pumps keeping it afloat and she looked pretty good from twenty-five feet. At that point I knew it must be a movie prop. I asked the yard owner what the story was and he told me it was going to be "Pilar," Ernest Hemmingway's boat in a biopic by HBO. Turns out it will be called "Hemmingway and Gellhorn" staring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, produced by James Galdofini ("Tony Soprano") and will air this spring on HBO.

Hemmingway's real "Pilar" remains on display in Cuba, but is reportedly in a sad state (termites). A group in the US wanted to donate money to preserve her, but the State Department said "no go" because of the embargo on all things Cuban. Here's what the original looked like. The movie "stand in" is pretty damn close, although about ten feet shorter than the real McCoy.

Here is our Pilar, Last years project at Moores Marine Yacht Center, Beaufort, NC. She was made from a 34 foot Wheeler.
The problem with creating a good reproduction is finding a 38 foot Wheeler, and deciding on which version/ year to reproduce. There were more yearly changes made to Pilar than Vickers made to the Spitfire.
Danny

[johnw]

Hurricane IV, in Magnificent Obsession with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman...

Kind of hilarious. He's doing 180 mph with no goggles and has not trouble seeing, and "it's kicking up out there" but the shots of the boat going fast are all in smooth water.

[goodbasil]

I recall a nice little steam driven boat in the '94 flick "Maverick."

[coucal]

Australian forumites of a certain age might remember the movie "Blue Fin", based on a Colin Thiele novel.


The tuna boat used for the movie was named "Velebit", one of the Port Lincoln tuna fleet.

[Concordia 33]

Does anyone know what boat was used for "The Wackiest Ship in the Army"? The movie had some historical accuracy as it was based on a real boat used by the Army ...

The USS Echo was based on the real-life USS Echo, a 40 year old schooner or scow that was transferred from the New Zealand government to the US Navy in 1942, and returned to the New Zealand government in 1944.

[richbeck]

Gilligans Island "The Minnow" Oops! Not a movie

[SchoonerRat]

Does anyone know what boat was used for "The Wackiest Ship in the Army"? The movie had some historical accuracy as it was based on a real boat used by the Army ...

My fading memory tells me that the "Wackiest Ship in the Army" was Bob Sloan's Spike Africa.

Somebody correct me.

[Concordia 33]

My fading memory tells me that the "Wackiest Ship in the Army" was Bob Sloan's Spike Africa.

Somebody correct me.

That's a good guess, but I checked, and Spike Africa was built in 1977 and the movie came out in 1960 and the TV series in 1966. Could there have been a Spike Africa before this one? She was definitely in Baywatch and Hotel

[SchoonerRat]

That's a good guess, but I checked, and Spike Africa was built in 1977 and the movie came out in 1960 and the TV series in 1966. Could there have been a Spike Africa before this one? She was definitely in Baywatch and Hotel

You're absolutely right, the timeline just doesn't fit. It wasn't till the mid '70s that my eye started wandering from plastic racing machines to "more traditional" schooners, and only a bit earlier that I started spending a lot of time around Newport Beach. I guess I just kind of figgered that "Spike" had always been around.

She did a lot of Hollywood work when she was down here. Reaching back into my swiss cheese memory of the time (I lived through the '60s) there was somebody who had a side business that procured yachts for Hollywood. I can't remember who it was, but I am trying to associate the business with a schooner owner. Maybe Bob or Monica Sloan? Maybe Byron Chamberlain? Jay's the guy to answer this one.

[keyhavenpotterer]

The boat in Apocalypse Now had a big roll. Guessing it was a US millitary one?

[rbgarr]

From SA:

Ten Worst (or Best, which is it??) Boat Movies. Watch' em anyway, I guess. The link to 'Captain Ron' quotes is worth reading the article for just by itself. And here's a link to 'goof-ups' in 'Captain Ron': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103924/trivia?tab=gf

Movie madness
... the official Sailing Anarchy Top Ten Sailing Movies Of All Time. We tried to restrict these to full-length feature fiction or documentary films, and we left off pretty much everything from the olden days; those swashbuckling films may look good in your memory, but with very few exceptions they didn’t age well at all.

10 – Morning Light

Take a pile of young sailors, give them a **** hot TP-52 and some of the best coaches in the world to train them to race it, and send them on a race to Hawaii. Throw in a custom-modified power trimaran to follow them every step of the way, and you’ve got the recipe for the ultimate sailing movie. Right? Somehow, it didn’t’ work out that way. This could’ve been Roy Disney’s final and most enduring legacy to a sport he adored, but it fell flat in almost every way: The race itself was a dull one, they didn’t even end up being the youngest team in the race, and somehow, the editing team managed to make some damned interesting and opinionated kids look downright dull. They had hours and hours and hours of gates-of-hell style sailing off Hawaii during training, tons of shots of fights and drama and the real stories about a crew having to come together to win, yet somehow, none of that made it to the final cut after an editing process frought with disagreement and delay. Morning Light makes it to the Top Ten solely on the strength of the offshore training footage – it’s by far the best-produced big-water sailing footage of a modern racing boat available. On a big screen, you tend to fast-forward through the rest of it.

9 – 180 South: Conquerors of the Useless

This recent feature doco contains maybe the least amount of sailing of any of these Top Ten pictures, and most of it is over and done with before the first half of the documentary. But that bit includes a very real and quietly beautiful piece of ocean passagemaking from the US to the South Pacific that is an absolute must-see piece for any ocean sailor, combined with more reality with a dramatic dismasting and the month-long jury rigging process on wild Rapa Nui (Easter Island), followed by the eventual landing in Chile. Once in Patagonia, Jeff Johnson meets up with Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins; the conservationist heroes who helped tell the world about this most wild of places nearly 50 years ago.

8 – Dead Calm

A young Nicole Kidman shows off her tits and ass, then later has a wheel in one hand and a spear gun (or was it a flare gun) in the other, kicking ass and taking names. At least that’s how we remember it, so do we really need to go into the plot? There’s plenty of suspense, but the movie loses sailors with some of its seaborne silliness, and loses regular folk with the stupidity of its main characters. Billy Zane plays a pretty good maniac, while Sam Neill is the useless foil to Kidman’s badassery. But Kidman’s flesh and her expressiveness are the real stars, and no matter how dumb the plot, she makes you want to cheer for her as she opens up a can of beatdown up on Zane. Kidman’s “Saracen” was actually the Van De Stadt 73’ plywood ketch “StormVogel”, which won the Sydney Hobart in 1965 and is still racing today. Bonus Rumor: A pair of Kidman’s panties still hangs in the stateroom of StormVogel.

7 – Pirates of the Caribbean

A roller-coaster ride of fun and adventure that brought swashbucklers into the 21st century.

6 – White Squall

One of the true classics for the thousands of kids and adults that have gone through some form of tall ship training, this pic casts a flawless Jeff Bridges as Skipper Chris Sheldon of the Brigantine Albatross in 1962 – a sail training/university ship for well-off kids long before such a thing became accepted. Directed by visionary director Ridley Scott, the script was written using many of the actual documents produced during the maritime hearings from the real-life tragic loss of the brig, which took four students’ lives along with those of the cook and Sheldon’s wife. This one is worth watching for anyone, but the capsize and sinking scene gives sailors a particularly harrowing look at all of our biggest fear: Being trapped in a sinking boat. Bonus Fact: Captain Sheldon went into the Peace Corps after losing the Albatross, and in 1965 he bought another ship – she burned to the waterline off West Africa on only her second voyage, and Sheldon would never return to sea. Tall Ships Down. An excellent read after watching the movie.

5 – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Bringing one of every bored cruiser’s favorite seafaring characters to the big screen, director Peter Weir brought in a great cast and spent some serious money making brutally believable battle and storm scenes from the Age of Sail. It’s a combination of a couple of books from Patrick O’Brians epic series, and the great characters and detailed realism of the chases and skirmishes at sea help the movie appeal.

4 – Masquerade

Rob Lowe is a studly young rockstar skipper running loaded old FBO Brian Davies’ S&S 70’ Mini-Maxi “Obsession” for the summer out of the Hamptons. He’s also running Davies’ trophy wife (a Kim Catrall already the slutty older women back in ’88!) around the bedroom, but he falls in love with a very young and exceptionally cute Meg Tilly instead. To complicate matters, someone is trying to steal Tilly’s massive fortune, Lowe is blowing hundreds of thousands on modifications to the boat, the cops are dirty, and the propane isn’t the only thing that’s explosive. This is a fun thriller with lots of sailing, most of it – including some of the sailor stereotypes - being quite accurate. And don’t even think that you sounded any cooler than the douchebag yachties in this 80’s classic. Viewing Tip: This one will hold the attention of a non-sailing wife. Bonus Fact: The hull of the Hinckley 36 used as “Masquerade” in the production was, according to a Hinckley Company newsletter, in good shape after they blew her up in a ball of fire. She was acquired by an experienced boatbuilder to be subsequently restored. Where Are They Now: At least a couple of years ago, Obsession was still doing head boat daysails out of Seattle’s waterfront.

3 – Deep Water

This one is deep indeed, and painful too, and it asks all the right questions about the first solo offshore racer to truly step into the void. The 93-minute documentary about Donald Crowhurst’s infamous leap into the chaos of the first non-stop, Round-The-World race relies on riveting footage found aboard the ghost ship Teignmouth Electron months after Crowhurst disappeared along with words and video from Moitissier and Sir Robin. The film documents Crowhurst’s descent into madness, and the reasons it was almost a foregone conclusion.

2 – Captain Ron

We’ll always love this one for its unending stream of memorable quotes, combined with just how hilariously true all the delivery skipper stereotypes seem to be when seen through a comic director’s eyes. Kurt Russell fits the bill perfectly, with Martin Short as the clueless owner and a hilarious crew keeps it interesting, and if you haven’t seen it in a while, medicate yourself with your favorite elixir and sit back for an hour and change of laughs.

1 – Wind

Still the gold standard by which all other crappy sailing movies are judged, Wind succeeds for sailors because a) it’s our only real ‘sports/drama’ movie and it loosely follows the reality from 1983 to 1987, and b) because of the utter ridiculousness spewed in nearly every scene. From the sail that goes “Whomp” to the pickup truck/salt flat wind tunnel tests to the stupid Geronimo dance, it keeps you laughing even as you check out Jennifer Grey’s sailor chick credentials. We don’t need no stinkin’ rules for yacht racing, do we? Not when it goes from flat calm to ocean gale in the middle of a single buoy race! For all of its substantial stupidity, Wind was still the first movie to really capture some of the excitement of sailing that Hollywood’s ever seen; the 14-foot skiff (a/k/a I-14) footage is breathtaking, and some of the AC racing scenes in the big stuff will be remembered forever. And as long as we keep it alive for the next generation, there will be Whompers in the sail locker for another 50 years.