Sandefjord - Her Voyage Around The World - Full Sailing Movie
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Sandefjord was first launched in 1913, and during her 22 years of service for the Norwegian Lifeboat Society, she saved 117 lives and assisted 258 vessels through fog and storm to safety.
After being sold out of the lifeboat service in 1935, the ketch passed through a succession of owners, the last of whom all but abandoned her as a rotting hulk in Durban.
It was a desperately sad shadow of the once proud and gallant Sandefjord that was found, half sunk at her moorings, by the Durban brothers Barry and Patrick Cullen in 1963. The task of refitting her required almost two years of hard work before she was ready for sea. She was taken from the water, stripped of all doubtful planks and timbers, and slowly restored to a state of complete seaworthiness.
Finally, in February 1965, Sandefjord was ready. She was provisioned for 400 days and with her complement of five young men and a girl, she sailed from Durban on what proved to be her greatest adventure yet.
Through the West Indies, Panama Canal...and on into the mighty Pacific. Sandefjord made her landfalls in the exotic South Seas in much the same way as Cook and other early navigators. Without exception, she was well met at all her ports of call. She made friends easily...for herself and her crew...as loyal and devoted a crew as any ship could ever wish to have.
Sandefjord sailed 30,279 nautical miles in 21 months in this memorable circumnavigation, receiving a thrilling homecoming welcome in Durban, Tuesday, 8th November 1966.
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Some technical notes. The original 16mm colour movie of 1967 was transferred to video in 1990. As in the voyage when storms threatened there were some tense moments during the transfer process in Hollywood, when the only archive print available (after 23 years) passed through the telecine machine. Dedicated perseverance won, culminating in a beautiful high quality video master. However, that archive 16mm print did possess a few scratches! And these unavoidably transfer through the video master to this DVD. The worst section is right at the start in the very first shot of Durban. Within a moment or two these scratches recede and we are confident that you, like us, will feel the intrusion thereafter to be slight - and acceptable in the broader objective of saving this film for the video screen.
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My Dad took me to see this at the Lyric Theater in Durban when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was absolutely enthralled at the time and was lucky enough to purchase it on DVD in Canada many years later. Watched it many times over and now have a 32' sailboat of my own in New Zealand...
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My family crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean in 1969 on a 32’ Colin Archer, a mini Sandefjord. I remember Sandefjord being in Grenada in about 1970/71, I was about 5 and remember playing with the kids aboard her. This must have been a subsequent cruise by Sandefjord. I’m actually on my own 34’ double ender, in the Caribbean, right now. I loved the movie. What a different world it was back then.
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Sandefjord is still sailing today. A testament to sound construction.
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Tried reallyhard not to tear up watching this,I was 6 when we went to see her return to good old durbs.just seeing the old international jetty,pyc and rnyc in the background brought back so many memories of a youth misspent sailing my little dabchick and later mirror dingies around the basin.at the ripe old age of 62 I found myself crying my eyes out at the end of the film.thank you so much for the trip down memory lane.
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Mary Clayton what a brave lady! What courage Mary has to do this voyage!
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I was a young teacher when in the late 1960’s when the two Cullen brothers gave a talk and slide show to the primary school children at Orange Grove Primary and lit many fires for adventure in their minds and my own! Thank you for that inspiration. You have touched the lives of many and been great role models!
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How nice to see the Sandefjord sailing again. A beautiful sailboat from a beautiful place in Norway.
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Thank you, thank you, what a pleasure to travel back to those days of sailing ships crossing oceans. Well before container ships and the multitudes of humanity upon the seas.
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What a gem, I can’t believe I accidentally stumbled into it, as. 68 year old Aussie and still sailing I couldn’t stop smiling all the way and what a great job docking without and engine, these were the days to do almost everything, so many of those places have been decimated by cruise ships, rich tourists and bludging backpackers nowadays.. Cheers. PS I have a photo of the opera house I took in 1963 looking a lot less finished.
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So wonderful to see this finally. What a great crew. Got to know Wally and Tim a little better as I only met them in 2013 in Risor, Norway for Sandefjord’s 100th birthday and the crew’s reunion. Pleasure to meet the other crew, by video obviously, but meaningful none the less! The footage was exceptional with a trip back in time especially how undeveloped the Caribbean and Tahiti were. Hearing Patrick’s voice was extremely moving and I kept it together until the pre arrival toast, hearing Barry toast Sandefjord and was reduced to crying like Peter in the arrival scene. What valuable, heartfelt memories of the sailing sages, Patrick and Barry Cullen. What a loving tribute to a ( still to this day ) living creation of working, lifesaving sailing craft, Sandefjord.
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No safety lines in those days. The currents off SA are treacherous. I was a very small lighty in 1965. Durban was our favourite holiday destination. Lovely to see it as it was. All done then without much tech. A well designed and made yacht from Norway. A long boat building tradition there, of course. Great film. The old music takes you back to the days of much loved cinema or even better drive-in.
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Loved it. As a 10 year old in 1966 in Queensland Australia the most emotional moment for me was listing to the ABC news broadcast being read by Peter Dor-Smith. I spent my childhood listening to that fanfare and Mr Dor-Smith at 7pm when the house was quiet under threat of punishment as my father pulled up his favourite chair to listen to the news on his radiogram. Also as a frustrated sailor and lover of all things sailing boats I enjoyed the.trip. Thanks for the memories and the opportunity to view.
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Thanks a lot for posting the film! Real sailing life back in the days before social media, GPS, GoPro cameras or Patreon. I worked in the restoration project of the Colin Archer pilot boat in the Maritime Museum of Finland and related to that I was invited to sail on board RS1 Colin Archer in Norway. What an unforgettable sailing experience!
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This circumnavigation was the real deal! Fantastic. Thank you so much for posting this. I work aboard a Norwegian Ketch built in 1939 that circumnavigated back in the 70's under the ownership of two Americans plus crew. She takes out school kids to earn her bread now but she could still do a whole lot more, they built these vessels in Norway to unbelievably strong standards. Shes 72 feet but her frame spacing and planking dimensions relative to her size make me think of an 18th century warship rather than a fishing vessel. I have my own 33 foot plastic double ender I plan on heading offshore with, but if I had been born in the 70's it would have been a gaff rigged Norwegian built ketch, no question. Nowadays you have to be an investment banker to own a 40 foot wooden Ketch.
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Beaming with joy ... I am adding my Wonderful to the Log .. floating here a few miles from the Alps in Southern Bavaria . I appreciate the raw beauty and collected kindness being transferred 🌻:)
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Immersed in this era with the film as it was. Now my turn I plan.
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Absolutely fantastic, so proud to be a South African sailor right now, when I saw the boat I just knew it had to be a Colin Archer, such a rich history and such a beautifully filmed and well told story, back in the day before GPS, VHF, AIS, Iridium go etc, this film bought a smile to my face, tears to my eyes and every emotion in between, as someone who is planning and preparing for long term single handed cruising a hugely inspirational watch, huge thumbs up from me❤
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"Sandefjord is one of the original rescue vessels, designed by Colin Archer for The Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue. She was launched in 1913 as RS 28 and served as a rescue vessel until 1934."
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Wonderful movie, wonderful people, wonderful era, wonderful voyage! Thank you for posting this epic adventure film.
