Sailing The World Alone
by Laszlo Pal
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DVD details
Actor: Giovanni Soldini, Hal Holbrook, Harry Mitchell, Isabelle Autissier, Jean Luc Van Den HeedeDirector: Laszlo Pal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1996-02-12
Studio: Pal Productions, Inc.
DVD Reviews of Sailing The World Alone
DVD Review: I'm hard pressed to call this "sailng alone"
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm pretty new to sailing, and I admit that I don't have all of the details of all of the races, etc, memorized. I got this DVD because I'd just watched Deep Water, which is a documentary about the first person that actually "sailed the world alone" back in 1968. This was before satellite phones, email and fax, and even before GPS navigation. I was interested to see what a similar modern attempt would look like. Well, like I said, I didn't know the details of the BOC Challenge (now the VELUX 5 Oceans Race), but calling this race "sailing alone" is quite a stretch in my opinion.
First of all, in the version of the race covered in this documentary, the race is broken up into four legs, so there are three stops, and these stops are quite lengthy - months long - in which the sailors can recover *as well as get their boats repaired.* In fact, even when the boats got into trouble during the sailing portions, a sailor's team could come and assist with boat repairs on the water. These differences are a far cry from the sailors in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe race, which could not dock at any port nor accept any items or help from anyone. One sailor was eliminated because he accepted letters from home!
If I had known the details of the BOC Challenge, which this documentary covers, I'm not sure I would have decided to buy it. But it was interesting for what it was.
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