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May 03, 2006
Image of the Week: The Godspeed Sails
On April 27, The Godspeed went out for it's first sail with the crew from the Jamestown-Yorktown foundation that will take it up the East Coast this summer on a port tour. We have, of course, been following the construction of this replica 1607 ship for more than a year for the documentary Godspeed to Jamestown that Plate of Peas is producing for The History Channel, and we weren't about to miss this.
We shot on board, from a chase boat, from a nearbye mountainop, and from a helicopter. (The only thing we didn't do, in all honesty, is shoot it from a submarine!) When we got over water, the helicopter pilot announced that there weren’t any floats on the helicopter because he hadn’t expected to be going over water (where did he think the ship would be, I wonder) and that if we went down we would all die of hypothermia very quickly. With this encouraging news ringing in our ears, we commenced shooting. Luckily we stayed in the air, thus missing out on the joys of death by drowning or impact or whatever.
It was cold, but incredibly gorgeous, and the footage that Dillard Morrison shot was equally beautiful.
The ship left Rockport this morning (they had to wait out the storm) to sail to Jamestown. It will be in both New York and Boston this summer--check the Port Tour Calendar and pay a visit!
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Posted by rickbeyer at May 3, 2006 08:23 PM
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