"Corrado" - A production blog

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taormina said:
So I shoulda been working on my movie's audio but I'm a slacker and took two days off to rest. Back to work tomorrow, I promise!

In the meantime I was on Cloud Nine, my sailboat. Johnny and James (set photog) came along. Enjoy the pics for lack of anything else interesting to report.:beer:
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Nice. Looks like a very sturdy blue-water cruiser. 45' or so? Who was the builder?

I'm gonna guess it's a Cabo Rico...
 
Ted Spencer said:
Nice. Looks like a very sturdy blue-water cruiser. 45' or so? Who was the builder?

I'm gonna guess it's a Cabo Rico...
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Close but no cigar!

Cloud Nine is a pretty rare Westsail 43 (50' overall), hull #44 of only 65 built, not to be confused with the totally different W42. She is in fact a blue water boat, displacing 17 tons and is currently equipped to go anywhere.

Ah well that was when I wasted my money on boats, now it's just movies.:beer:
 
Nice looking boat! I do miss sailing. My sailing instructor had a custom built 1820s replica 50' schooner. All wood. Gorgeous, gorgeous boat. Loved sailing on her, even though I get seasick every single time I'm out.

Sometimes you have to take a break and reset your brain. Other times you have to install a Protools suite belowdecks. :)
 
taormina said:
CCloud Nine is a pretty rare Westsail 43 (50' overall), hull #44 of only 65 built, not to be confused with the totally different W42. She is in fact a blue water boat, displacing 17 tons and is currently equipped to go anywhere.
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Wow I have an idea for a movie... a couple go sailing with this other couple... oops that's Dead Calm...

Nice boat...
 
taormina said:
Close but no cigar!

Cloud Nine is a pretty rare Westsail 43 (50' overall), hull #44 of only 65 built, not to be confused with the totally different W42. She is in fact a blue water boat, displacing 17 tons and is currently equipped to go anywhere.

Ah well that was when I wasted my money on boats, now it's just movies.:beer:
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Well I was even closer than you think. I had it down to a Cabo or a Westsail, but all the Westsail designs of similar size I googled had pilothouses, so I guessed Cabo. I also thought from the photos that yours might have been a double-ender, which apparently it is.

I'm a lifelong sailior, and it goes way back in my family to the mid-19th century on my mother's side. My folks owned a Pearson Rhodes 41 yawl, and I had a Jeanneau 34 during the 80s and 90s. I race now, on other people's boats, usually an Express 37.
 
Ted Spencer said:
Well I was even closer than you think. I had it down to a Cabo or a Westsail, but all the Westsail designs of similar size I googled had pilothouses, so I guessed Cabo. I also thought from the photos that yours might have been a double-ender, which apparently it is.

I'm a lifelong sailior, and it goes way back in my family to the mid-19th century on my mother's side. My folks owned a Pearson Rhodes 41 yawl, and I had a Jeanneau 34 during the 80s and 90s. I race now, on other people's boats, usually an Express 37.
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A Bounty Yawl!!!!!! I was so madly in love with those boats. Almost bought one. Built like tanks, one of the very first plastic boats, looked like a wood boat it was so pretty.

How cool is it that you sail too!

Anyways, no one knows what my boat is because there are so few of them. The W43 is a Crealock design that is really a forerunner to the Pacific Seacraft 44. It took me four years to refit her!!!!!!!!!!
 
dougspice said:
Nice looking boat! I do miss sailing. My sailing instructor had a custom built 1820s replica 50' schooner. All wood. Gorgeous, gorgeous boat. Loved sailing on her, even though I get seasick every single time I'm out.

Sometimes you have to take a break and reset your brain. Other times you have to install a Protools suite belowdecks. :)
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I had a wood boat before this one. It was a 1946 Fellows & Stewart Island Clipper, 44'. It almost sank 22 miles offshore with my whole family aboard. It burst a seam in a squall and filled with water...we had to mayday and be rescued. The boat was saved, but we got rid of it after that. Different story for a different forum!
 
HueyNRolf said:
Y'know, the more I think about this the more I'm inclined to differ.
What about Kubrik's '2001' and 'A Clockwork Orange' of course, the latter just wouldn't have worked with a bespoke score.

Then there's Scorsese's 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino.'
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ChipG said:
Sorry for being off topic but didn't Kubrik play "Rain drops & roses" when the girl was being raped in Clockwork????

I'll I'm saying is in my opinion it was a total "score" :):)
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Wow, did two actual people consecutively spell Stanley Kubrick's name wrong?

And no, it was Singin' in the Rain, apparently Kubrick asked him if he knew any songs and it was the only one...
 
'And no, it was Singin' in the Rain, apparently Kubrick asked him if he knew any songs and it was the only one...'

wtf?
 
taormina said:
A Bounty Yawl!!!!!! I was so madly in love with those boats. Almost bought one. Built like tanks, one of the very first plastic boats, looked like a wood boat it was so pretty.
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Well, since it's your thread, and no one has complained about us 'sailing' OT yet, here's a few facts about the indeed lovely BountyII/Rhodes 41...

Coleman Boat and Plastics Co. built the original Bounty II, the predecessor of the Rhodes 41, which was made from the same hull molds after Pearson bought Coleman in around 1961. For their R41 version, the large aft portholes were split into pairs, and various other improvements were made, like lead ballast instead of iron, slide-out lower berths in the main compartment and so on. The Rhodes 41 was in production from 1962-68, with almost 50 built.

As you alluded to, at the time (like the Bounty II) it was the largest fiberglass production sailboat ever made, and it was indeed built like a tank: it displaced 12 tons!

My folks' boat was built in '63, and we owned it from '67 to about 2000 - over 30 years! It was originally a sloop, but they had it custom-converted to a yawl sometime in the early 80s.

The current owner still keeps it where my folks did, and spent years restoring it. He was kind enough to allow me and my extended family to ride out on her to scatter my folks ashes just a few weeks ago when we held their memorial service. An unforgettable moment that, and the first time we'd set foot on 'White Wings' in 8 years.

How cool is it that you sail too!
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Ditto!

Here's a photo of her from 1992:
 

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GaryinCalifornia said:
Just for fun... what does one of these babies costs...
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My dad sold it ca. 2000 for about $28K, but she needed a lot of work. Restored as it is now (I'd say about 95%) I'd guess maybe $50-60K. Not a hell of a lot of money as 41 footers go, but even restored, a boat like this will require a lot of upkeep. Adam, as a broker of these things, probably has a more accurate idea of its value that I.

The gold standard of her 60s-era contemporaries, the Hinckley Bermuda 40, in restored condition (and some have been restored to near-new shape) could probably command $150K or more.

My dad came very close to buying a B40 instead of the R41, and much as we loved 'White Wings' over the years, he later realized he probably should have gone for the Hinckley.
 
If we're all gonna post silly posters then...


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kidding, lets get back to CORRADO!
 
Ted Spencer said:
Well, since it's your thread, and no one has complained about us 'sailing' OT yet, here's a few facts about the indeed lovely BountyII/Rhodes 41...

Coleman Boat and Plastics Co. built the original Bounty II, the predecessor of the Rhodes 41, which was made from the same hull molds after Pearson bought Coleman in around 1961. For their R41 version, the large aft portholes were split into pairs, and various other improvements were made, like lead ballast instead of iron, slide-out lower berths in the main compartment and so on. The Rhodes 41 was in production from 1962-68, with almost 50 built.

As you alluded to, at the time (like the Bounty II) it was the largest fiberglass production sailboat ever made, and it was indeed built like a tank: it displaced 12 tons!

My folks' boat was built in '63, and we owned it from '67 to about 2000 - over 30 years! It was originally a sloop, but they had it custom-converted to a yawl sometime in the early 80s.

The current owner still keeps it where my folks did, and spent years restoring it. He was kind enough to allow me and my extended family to ride out on her to scatter my folks ashes just a few weeks ago when we held their memorial service. An unforgettable moment that, and the first time we'd set foot on 'White Wings' in 8 years.



Ditto!

Here's a photo of her from 1992:
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Gorgeous boat, my friend, what else can I say!
 
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