| Title: | SAILING |
| Notice: | Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference |
| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
| Total number of notes: | 20724 |
Has anyone been following the soap "Captain Cook" on TNT this week.
As soaps go it's been pretty interesting - lots of camera time spent
at sea aboard Discovery and Adventure, and also on shore at Tahiti with
some excellent scenery to watch. I guess Cook was lucky right up until
some Hawaiian Polynesians stabbed him after he came back to effect
repairs, when they had already told him to leave. He ran aground on
the Great Barrier reef and dragged the ship off from the stern with
windlass and ship's boats. If a piece of coral hadn't lodged in the
3-4 feet diameter hole in the hull, they'd have sunk.
Chris
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| 1359.1 | DNEAST::BELTON_TRAVI | Travis Belton | Thu Oct 05 1989 08:45 | 17 | |
It WAS a little soap-operish, wasn't it. Also, it was so disjointed to
me, that I had to go to the library after the first night to get a book
on Cook to fill in the missing pieces. The book's endpaper chart
showing the track of Cook's three voyages helped considerably in tieing
the TV series together.
While it wasn't the finest 6hrs of television ever, it did spart in me
a re-newed interest in the great sailing voyages of that time.
Coincidently, I had just last week gotten a listing from an antiquarian
book seller that included a first edition of the account of Cook's
third voyage, including notes from his log, drawings and charts done by
Cook, published shortly after the trip in 1780 or 1790-something. I
believe it was $900.
Travis
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