Grace Harwar 1929 - AJ Villiers Movie

If you're interested in life at sea on old wooden merchant sailing ships, please also check out the autobiography Forty Years Master by Captain Daniel Killman. There's a FB page of the same name - Forty Years Master - with some other interesting videos and informational posts.

[@millbaymoll2420]

Thanks for posting this - a rare insight into a long passage on a square-rigged sailing ship. Hard exhausting work and significant danger, experienced by young men and boys.

[@laserbeam002]

Amongst all the crap on RUclips you will ocasionally run across a gem like this. Thank you for posting.

[@dominictarrsailing]

I just read the book of this, so thanks for uploading the video! The thing that this really confirms for me is that text is actually a much better medium for capturing sailing than film. Watching this video it seems like a pretty nice trip! but that's not how it is in the book! with text, it's possible to describe in detail what was happening when things were really going bad! at those times, all hands were working the ship, so they couldn't do filming! and also probably the conditions were too bad for filming. but they can describe what happened from memory. Villiers writes early in the book that a summer trip would be better, because that will mean long daylight hours that far south, which is essential to filming (with the technology of the time!), but they signed on to a winter trip because basically they decided "now or never" and had only 4 hours of daylight in the most interesting part of the journey!

[@noeldrayton4493]

My Dad was on this voyage. A horrendous trip.

[@gentlegiants1974]

Incredible footage. I was born 45 years after this voyage but this makes me feel as if I were there.

[@peterabild1123]

Excellent video

[@howtosailoceans1423]

Thanks for posting this!

[@shoebill181]

Struggled to hear this fine video, with the background music. So glad it didn't last, excellent video.

[@evolveausevolveaus]

thank you so much for sharing such a classic Drew

[@scomo532]

The Flying P line, Gustavo Ericsson’s last reprieve for the square rigged cargo ship. What a time!

[@frankcunliffe8509]

Many thanks for sharing this. I read the Alan Villiers book of this voyage , By Way of Cape Horn earlier this year, It amazing to see the people he wrote about come to life, thank you for sharing

[@bobeden5027]

I remember my crossing the line ceremony, with fondness, now, but then it was a different feeling! hahaha

[@Electriceye1984bySam]

Awesome👏🏻👍🏻

[@carlgomm9699]

Such a nice show, one doesn't see things like this very often, please keep up the good work !!

[@michaelbailey1578]

Alan Villers was the technical consultant for the film Moby Dick. Thanks for sharing this.

[@jcmackenzie6387]

thanks for the great video

[@kenkrausse3624]

Many thanks

[@johnbecay6887]

great documentary could have used less of the music

[@garymalm]

Thank you. Gary in Japan.

[@drewellison]

For those of you interested in the bygone years of merchant sailing, look up the autobiography Forty Years Master by Captain Daniel Killman. There's a FB page of the same name - Forty Years Master - and it's got some videos as well as interesting informational posts.