The most phenomenal bit of cinamatography (black and white) of the age of sail

[Owly055]

Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0

This film took my breath away......... A truly stunning video narrative of a real 4 masted barque sailing from Hamburg around Cape Horn for a load of fertilizer.   There is NOTHING to equal it that I've seen ever anywhere.   Hollywood may simulate such things but THIS IS REAL LIFE.    How this man (a real seaman) managed to get aboard and film this, I have no idea, but it is beyond priceless!!!   Do NOT miss this one!!!    Utube has lots of absolute garbage, but this qualifies as a pearl among swine.    It made it to utube where we can all enjoy it at no cost!     
    Who among us has not read nautical books from the age of sail by authors like Jack London, Herman Melville, Rafael Sabatini, Edward Ludwig, Richard Henry Dana jr. , Jules Verne, and countless others.............   This is REAL LIFE, not a novel.  Real live footage of a voyage, and some of the most violent storm conditions imaginable.  Lines of men furling sails hundreds of feet above the deck on the foot ropes, waves totally sweeping the deck of a huge ship.  Two men who were shown here were lost overboard.  The captain an incredible larger than life man who is reputed to have leaped overboard into the boiling cauldron at the stern holding a line and dragged a man who had fallen overboard out by the hair....  himself being pulled from the sea while clinging to the rescued seaman by the hair........... twice!!   An unimaginable feat.    When you watch a hollywood production, the characters are actors, and the scenes contrived.   This is REAL live footage.
      I remember asking a man who performed an incredibly dangerous job on a tower in front of me, nearly losing his life in the process if they had "weighed your balls" when applying for the job.    These men performed feats far in excess of that on a regular basis, sometimes multiple times a day.

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