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A Movie Review: A must see!!!!
If you get the chance watch the film " Around the Horn" shot by Irving
Johnson in 1929 aboard the Peking, one of the flying P's you too will be amazed. The Peking was a 8000 ton, 4 masted Barque, with over 5 acres of sail, thats 44,132 sq. ft. 100+ MPH winds decks completly under water sailing the wrong way around. See Johnson slide down the edge of the sails, a 13 ft jelly fish, and a Capt. with the biggest hands ever. Once 2 crew members were washed over and Capt, Junter ran to the stern, grabbed a reefing line, dove over and caught the man by the hair of the head and both were pulled aboard with the capt just holding on with one hand on the line and one on the crew member, and he did it twice. In 80 MPH winds one sailor aloft clearing a blown sail held on and was flapping in the wind like the sail. The ship screams along at 16+ knots. Over 380 sail control lines. In his youth Johnson looked like one tough sailor. The film is only available thru the Mystic Seaport Museam. The footage filmed on board during a passage around Cape Horn in 1929 shocked experienced Cape Horn veterans and landsmen alike at the extreme conditions Peking experienced. A must see! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_(ship) Joe |
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