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Destination Documentaries

Destination Documentaries

Sail to exotic locations around the world with both experienced sailors and new voyagers.

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  • Bluewater Destinations - Ep4: Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji

    Movie

    BLUEWATER DESTINATIONS
    EPISODE 4: Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji
    A film by British Sailor, TV director, and circumnavigator, Michael Briant. From his six-part series.

    After visiting the Marquesas and Tuamotus, British sailor and circumnavigator, Michael Briant sails on to Tahiti and the Society Islands...

  • Voyages of Entr'acte: The Partnership

    Movie + 1 extra

    A film by Ed and Ellen Zako.
    The Partnership is a story of love and friendship, discovery and improbability. Ellen and Ed Zacko met while playing in the orchestra of a Broadway musical and hatched a scheme to take a temporary brake from the hectic New York scene and explore the world together. T...

  • Once Upon an Island: New Calendonia

    Movie

    A film by Antoine, French celebrity and world sailor.
    Antoine invites you on board his yellow catamaran Banana Split for an unforgettable cruise around this magnificent South Pacific island located a thousand miles off the east coast of Australia.

    Shot in High Definition, the film is accompan...

  • Wind, Sand, & Sea with Lin & Larry Pardey

    Movie

    "Wind, Sand and Sea," a slide seminar given by Lin & Larry Pardey. Lin tells the story of the four main adventures that shaped their early sailing lives.

    The Pardey's gave the talk during the 2011 U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD in support of CRAB, Chesapeake Bay Accessible Boating. The se...

  • Transatlantic with Street

    Movie

    A film by Gavin Shaw
    One of the first sailing documentaries shot on video.
    Classic Atlantic ocean 5,000 mile tradewind passage shot in 1986 aboard noted sailor/author Don Street's 1905 engineless 44 foot yawl, Iolaire. Documents Iolair's ninth Atlantic crossing from Ireland, with eleven ocean i...

  • Bluewater Destinations

    1 season

    A 6-part video series by Michael Briant.
    Join British Sailor and TV Director, Michael Briant as he voyages in the Caribbean and Pacific during his circumnavigation aboard Bambola, his 1980 Moody 36 center cockpit sloop,

    Begin your journey sailing from Trinidad to Panama, stopping at seldom vi...

  • Once Upon an Island: New Zealand

    Movie

    A film by Antoine, French TV celebrity and world traveler. Sail Around New Zealand on a personal tour with Antoine aboard his catamaran, Banana Split.

    The hardy Maori explorers who discovered this magical island named it, "The land of the Long White Cloud". You'll discover North Island's encha...

  • Sail Vicarious Refit / Cruise

    2 seasons

    A 7 part video series by Spencer and Kathleen Bailey divided into two sections: "Year of the Refit" amd "Cruising". CRUISING coming soon.

    Over eight hours of how-to and cruising information. Join Spencer and Kathleen over a multi-year project as they locate the right cruising sailboat, make he...

  • In the Wake of the Zaca

    Movie + 3 extras

    A film by Luther Greene
    TheSailingChannel.TV is proud to bring you "In the Wake of the Zaca," the remarkable adventures of a California schooner. This award-winning documentary captures a lost age of adventure, romance, and Hollywood glamour told through the history of a 75 year-old, 118 foot ga...

  • RawFaith: A Family Saga

    Movie + 1 extra

    A film by Gregory Roscoe
    RawFaith is a family saga told through the lens of a man, a mission, and a boat. In 1997, the McKay family decided to build a three masted Galleon as a way for the family to voyage and see new places. However, the boat needed to be handicapped accessible for their daught...

  • Once Upon an Island: Atlantic

    Movie + 2 extras

    Hosted by famous French sailor and TV personality, Antoine, this is a highly entertaining destination video that explores the islands of the Atlantic from the cost of South Africa to Bermuda with stops at St. Helena and several islands in the Caribbean.. Available in English, French, and Italian....

  • Playlist: 2016 ORP Greenland Climate Project

    5 items

    Following his record-setting, solo nonstop voyage around the Americas, Matt Rutherford formed Ocean Research Project, a nonprofit dedicated to scientific research about the world's oceans. See https://www.oceanresearchproject.org.

    This series follows Matt's second research voyage in 2015-2016 al...

  • The Mary T: Newfoundland's SW Coast

    Movie

    A film by Amy Flannery (Director of Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matt Rutherford Story).
    Cruise with Amy and Kenny aboard the Mary T, their 1984 Morgan 384 sloop as they explore Newfoundland's southwest coast. Sail past grand vistas of rock bound shores into stunning fjords. Visit remote outports f...

  • The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

    1 season

    The Last Sailors chronicles the working sailing craft still in use in third world countries during the last decades of the twentieth century. Orson Welles' narration gives the script the gravitas this subject deserves, as most of these sailors and their craft have now vanished forever.

    To make...

  • Kon-Tiki
    Movie + 3 extras

    Kon-Tiki

    Movie + 3 extras

    Kon-Tiki - A film by Thor Heyerdahl (B&W)
    1951 Academy-Award for Best Documentary.
    This classic 16mm documentary captures both a sea adventure and a scientific test of ancient sailing techniques. It changed views on where the peoples of polynesia originated.

    Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 adventure v...

  • Bluewater Destinations: Ep3 - Marquesas & Tuamotus

    Movie

    BLUEWATER DESTINATIONS
    EPISODE 3: Marquesas & Tuamotus
    A film by British Sailor, TV director, and circumnavigator, Michael Briant. From the 6-part series.

    After crossing the south Pacific from the Galapagos Islands, join British sailor and circumnavigator, Michael Briant as he visits two exo...

  • Dancing With The Wind
    Movie + 2 extras

    Dancing With The Wind

    Movie + 2 extras

    A film by Ed Verner | Running time: 28 minutes
    A classic sailboat, a fresh breeze, a willing crew and the sun sparkling off the water. Add an original musical score and an inspirational narrative that echoes the spirit and sounds of sailing and you have Dancing With The Wind. This unique 28-minu...

  • Journey Back to Myself

    Movie

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    A film by Margie Woods.
    Margie Woods puts it all out there in Journey Back to Myself. With limited offshore experience, she sets sail solo from San Francisco to Hawaii, the only female entry in the 2016 Transpac race. Using her video camera and journal Margie records each day's ex...

  • Cruising with Bettie: L.A. to the Bahamas

    Movie + 5 extras

    A film by Bob Steadman with Kaye Nottbusch
    Join Bob and Kaye aboard their 36 foot sloop, "Bettie" as they cruise from Los Angeles to the Bahamas via the Panama Canal. This is a fast-paced documentary with gorgeous photography that will give you a first hand look at the cruising lifestyle.

    Vis...

  • Cruising on the Mary T: Nova Scotia to the Bahamas

    Movie + 3 extras

    A film by Amy Flannery.
    From the Director of Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matt Rutherford Story comes a rollicking docu-comedy about a couple's year-long sailing adventure.

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    Follow the Mary T as Amy and Kenny cast off in 2019 follow...

  • Bluewater Destinations: Ep2 - Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands

    Movie

    BLUEWATER DESTINATIONS
    EPISODE 2: Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands
    A film by British Sailor, TV director, and circumnavigator, Michael Briant. From his 6-part series.

    A must for anyone intending to transit the Panama Canal. All three methods of locking are shown – side wall, alongside, ...

  • Channel Islands National Park: Treasure in the Sea

    Movie

    Produced by the U.S. Government National Park Service and narrated by Kevin Costner.

    Channel Islands National Park encompasses five remarkable islands and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Isolation over thousands of years has creat...

  • Don Street Antigua Race Week 1985

    Movie

    A film by Charles Croft with Don Street
    A one hour award-winning documentary which lets you share the intense sailing action aboard Don Street's 80 year old, 44 foot, engineless yawl, "Iolaire" during Antigua Sailing Week 1985, Iolarie's final appearance in one of the world's top sailing events....

  • Sailing Adventures of the Irish Rose: Inside Passage

    Movie

    A film by David Perdew.
    The Inside Passage from Seattle, Washington to Juneau, Alaska is where you will find bears, eagles, whales, seals, salmon, and icebergs in abundance. This is still a place where nature rules. Where glaciers gleam like jewels set into majestic mountains. Where ice-fed wate...