This is a movie I'll invite the Sea Scouts group, with which I volunteer, to watch. True, I have an interest in sailing, but I understood the main thrust of this movie is to talk about why serious sailing appeals to so many people, including the movie-makers. I can imagine young people really connecting with it. At least, I hope they would. Sailing is complicated and potentially expensive (mooring fees, anyone?). But...there are a LOT of ways to participate, like joining a Sea Scouts Ship ("Ship" is the term for Sea Scouts, vs. regular Scouting's "troop"), which can be low-cost or free, volunteering to crew on sailboats belonging to friends or friends of friends, or - something I'm enjoying very much these days - using VR technology to sail from home via MarineVerse Sailing Club on Meta or Steam. The bottom line is that sailing is one of the most easily accessible routes to real, primal adventure these days. It can be solitary or companionable. In a small boat, the technology is simple; in a larger boat, the technology and parts are numerous and the specialized lingo humbling. But, and this is an important but, sources of pride are often wrought through challenge and apprenticeship. I wish more people had a front row seat - like this movie offers - to the empowering wildness of harnessing wind and sea.

A sports documentary about a group of college aged students who compete in the sailing competition known as the TRANSPAC. This film was produced by Roy E. Disney, who is a sailing enthusiast and felt heavily scripted, somewhat like a reality show with less drama. As someone who knows very little about the sport of sailing, I would have appreciated more explanations of the roles each person plays on the boat. There were also a few too many people to truly get to know during the run time of the film, so the connection with the audience isn’t strong. There are a few great character moments with raw emotion and it is interesting to see what it takes to sail from California to Hawaii. If you are into sports documentaries or this subject matter interests you, then this movie is worth checking out.

A sports documentary about a group of college aged students who compete in the sailing competition known as the TRANSPAC. This film was produced by Roy E. Disney, who is a sailing enthusiast and felt heavily scripted, somewhat like a reality show with less drama. As someone who knows very little about the sport of sailing, I would have appreciated more explanations of the roles each person plays on the boat. There were also a few too many people to truly get to know during the run time of the film, so the connection with the audience isn't strong. There are a few great character moments with raw emotion and it is interesting to see what it takes to sail from California to Hawaii. If you are into sports documentaries or this subject matter interests you, then this movie is worth checking out.

Interesting movie about an interesting topic

Disney needs to stop producing these terrible documentaries. Entirely too long for a movie this boring. Completely unwatchable. (First and only viewing - 2/3/2011)

A well done documentary regarding a very talented group of young people, sailing as a team in the TransPac race from SoCal to Hawaii. Very well told story - concisely done, yet adequate time is given to selection of crew, training and the actual race.

a bit too disneyfied for my taste (especially the terribly awkward final credit sequence featuring members of the crew in a recording studio a la "saved by the bell"), but the story is a good one anyway.

If you've never sailed, you shouldn't watch this movie. If you think this was intended to be a blockbuster... to be judged on sales figures, pretty faces, star names... please stay away; you'd have no reference point nor would you, understandably, have the slightest reason to be interested in its content. If you have sailed, on the other hand, you know exactly what it's about. It's not about editing or a story line. Even if it was just a story told around the dinner table or at a bar near some seaside, to a sailor it would be moving and engaging. Beautiful views, settings, situations - the thrills, the frustrations - that can only be experienced from the vantage point of a boat being thrashed about on the vast, open sea. For what it was intended to be, this documentary hits the target.

It's a fine little documentary but it comes off more like a commercial for the race more than anything else. It tells us about the people chosen for the TransPac sailing race and their six month training. But it all goes really fast and then we are in the race and then it's over. There are eleven people on the team but we really don't take time to get to know them. Plus there are voice overs read by the kids on the boat that don't have any emotion to them. That got old real fast.

Since my father has raced over 15 Transpac's over the years, I found this movie extremely special and very true to the feeling of the race.

if you're into sailing, the footage is amazing. a bit Disney but a great movie.

great filming and really cool story. exciting race too.

Not really my cup of tea. If you're into sailing you might enjoy this a lot, but most people will find it dull and bland.

Mostly a movie for people who love sailing for people that dont will still enjoy the story of the people and why there there.

People seem to dislike the documentary because they feel sailing is a rich man's hobby and somehow bring up the whole class-discussion into play. That's just weird and wrong. When it comes to this documentary, I had my fears since it was from Disney who aren't exactly the hottest company in the world to make compelling documentaries. I've sailed a few years, nothing professional, just a hobby and could understand what the documentary was about, but what I found really weird was that for a person who is not aquainted with sailing, there was 0 exposition into the sport. Nothing about how the ship functions, why the sailors are trimming sails at any given time etc. It was like a camera was set to go alongside Morning Glory and everything left for the viewer to digest. The only tangible point for the viewer then is to concentrate on the characters. Here too, Disney falters as the 15 junior sailors (of which 11 take part in the competition) seem to be all happy happy joy joy throughout the documentary. You never get to know nothing about what makes them tic and when we get to the fabled Transpac race, it seems like 99,5% of the ships participating are captained by losers and Morning Light is competing against Samba Pa Ti only. Documentaries don't need Reality 온라인카지노추천 factors to it, but they just need to be good documentaries that have an arc into them. This one didn't, but it's still worth a watch.

Good. I wanna part of sailing team too. But i know i am not worthy to be in a team, lack of endurance.

It was a very well made and interesting documeantary about sailing and a bunch of teenager's dreams i enjoyed it very much im saying see this film.

I really enjoyed it.

Feel like the idea was good but the narration by the various members were just horrible and I wasn't interested after about ten minutes.

this movie is so good! even though i'm on the sailing team, i'm still learning tactics and termonology so it was really helpful that they explained certain aspects of what they were doing. this movie makes me wanna get out on the water now and sail! plus, meeting Roy Disney was AMAZING as well :)