Sandefjord - Her Voyage Around The World - Full Sailing Movie
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The true story of five young men and a girl that set out to circumnavigate the Earth with Sandefjord, a fifty-year-old lifeboat. 1965 - 1966
Sandefjord was first launched in 1913, and during her 22 years of service for the Norwegian Lifeboat Society, she saved 117 lives and assisted 258 vessels through fog and storm to safety.
After being sold out of the lifeboat service in 1935, the ketch passed through a succession of owners, the last of whom all but abandoned her as a rotting hulk in Durban.
It was a desperately sad shadow of the once proud and gallant Sandefjord that was found, half sunk at her moorings, by the Durban brothers Barry and Patrick Cullen in 1963. The task of refitting her required almost two years of hard work before she was ready for sea. She was taken from the water, stripped of all doubtful planks and timbers, and slowly restored to a state of complete seaworthiness.
Finally, in February 1965, Sandefjord was ready. She was provisioned for 400 days and with her complement of five young men and a girl, she sailed from Durban on what proved to be her greatest adventure yet.
Through the West Indies, Panama Canal...and on into the mighty Pacific. Sandefjord made her landfalls in the exotic South Seas in much the same way as Cook and other early navigators. Without exception, she was well met at all her ports of call. She made friends easily...for herself and her crew...as loyal and devoted a crew as any ship could ever wish to have.
Sandefjord sailed 30,279 nautical miles in 21 months in this memorable circumnavigation, receiving a thrilling homecoming welcome in Durban, Tuesday, 8th November 1966.
Some technical notes.
The original 16mm colour movie of 1967 was transferred to video in 1990. As in the voyage when storms threatened there were some tense moments during the transfer process in Hollywood, when the only archive print available (after 23 years) passed through the telecine machine.
Dedicated perseverance won, culminating in a beautiful high quality video master. However, that archive 16mm print did possess a few scratches! And these unavoidably transfer through the video master to this DVD. The worst section is right at the start in the very first shot of Durban. Within a moment or two these scratches recede and we are confident that you, like us, will feel the intrusion thereafter to be slight - and acceptable in the broader objective of saving this film for the video screen.
Glad to see this
Your passion and perseverance are greatly appreciated! These Colin Archer RS* boats are my favorite.
My Dad took me to see this at the Lyric Theater in Durban when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was absolutely enthralled at the time and was lucky enough to purchase it on DVD in Canada many years later. Watched it many times over and now have a 32' sailboat of my own in New Zealand...
you are a Kiwi
My family crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean in 1969 on a 32’ Colin Archer, a mini Sandefjord. I remember Sandefjord being in Grenada in about 1970/71, I was about 5 and remember playing with the kids aboard her. This must have been a subsequent cruise by Sandefjord. I’m actually on my own 34’ double ender, in the Caribbean, right now.
I loved the movie. What a different world it was back then.
What a gem, I can’t believe I accidentally stumbled into it, as. 68 year old Aussie and still sailing I couldn’t stop smiling all the way and what a great job docking without and engine, these were the days to do almost everything, so many of those places have been decimated by cruise ships, rich tourists and bludging backpackers nowadays.. Cheers. PS I have a photo of the opera house I took in 1963 looking a lot less finished.
Hey you, I'm a bludger and resent being called a backpacker.
So wonderful to see this finally. What a great crew. Got to know Wally and Tim a little better as I only met them in 2013 in Risor, Norway for Sandefjord’s 100th birthday and the crew’s reunion. Pleasure to meet the other crew, by video obviously, but meaningful none the less! The footage was exceptional with a trip back in time especially how undeveloped the Caribbean and Tahiti were. Hearing Patrick’s voice was extremely moving and I kept it together until the pre arrival toast, hearing Barry toast Sandefjord and was reduced to crying like Peter in the arrival scene. What valuable, heartfelt memories of the sailing sages, Patrick and Barry Cullen. What a loving tribute to a ( still to this day ) living creation of working, lifesaving sailing craft, Sandefjord.
2023 Waiheke island NZ
How nice to see the Sandefjord sailing again. A beautiful sailboat from a beautiful place in Norway.
Thanks a lot for posting the film! Real sailing life back in the days before social media, GPS, GoPro cameras or Patreon. I worked in the restoration project of the Colin Archer pilot boat in the Maritime Museum of Finland and related to that I was invited to sail on board RS1 Colin Archer in Norway. What an unforgettable sailing experience!
No safety lines in those days. The currents off SA are treacherous.
I was a very small lighty in 1965. Durban was our favourite holiday destination. Lovely to see it as it was. All done then without much tech. A well designed and made yacht from Norway. A long boat building tradition there, of course.
Great film. The old music takes you back to the days of much loved cinema or even better drive-in.
Absolutely fantastic, so proud to be a South African sailor right now, when I saw the boat I just knew it had to be a Colin Archer, such a rich history and such a beautifully filmed and well told story, back in the day before GPS, VHF, AIS, Iridium go etc, this film bought a smile to my face, tears to my eyes and every emotion in between, as someone who is planning and preparing for long term single handed cruising a hugely inspirational watch, huge thumbs up from me❤
"Sandefjord is one of the original rescue vessels, designed by Colin Archer for The Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue. She was launched in 1913 as RS 28 and served as a rescue vessel until 1934."
Great film. Such great times. I´ve always dreamed about sailing such a yacht around the world. I was born the same year this was being filmed. A much better time. It seems my generation, we who are born in the middle of the 60s , are born too late for the great adventures...
Beaming with joy ... I am adding my Wonderful to the Log .. floating here a few miles from the Alps in Southern Bavaria . I appreciate the raw beauty and collected kindness being transferred 🌻:)
Wonderful movie, wonderful people, wonderful era, wonderful voyage! Thank you for posting this epic adventure film.
What a beautiful well done documentary especially from that era . With no real technology it was masterfully done . Thankyou for such joy especially in these times .
These types of men and women are not around much . Just shows you that mod cons are not required to achieve
Yeah... who leaves work and two toddlers back at home and goes sailing around the world in 40 year old boat?
@@cetterus A true adventurer and a wife that gives full support of it . Today most men aren’t allowed to do a thing without permission
Those were the glory days of sailing, what a wonderful movie !
It reminds me a bit of my first atlantic crossing in 1976, 10 jears after Sandefjord. We sailed into the bay of Mayero and anchored there together with another boat. Nowadays, you cannot even get a place there, its so full of boats. Boating has become mass tourism and everything has changed a lot. That's the progress, man !
Mayero is part of the Tobago Cays, in the beautiful Grenadines.
Sail to the higher latitudes for solitude...
Wonderful to see this here - I was fortunate enough to be given the DVD as I missed the film originally screened at the Labia in Cape Town. As a Sea Scout crewed on her for a short while after this trip. Was probably in the late 60's. Based at the RCYC she was being looked after for a while by someone by the name of Nelson (surname) as I recall. Mostly day sails in Table Bay `but we did do a trip to Knysna but only made it to Struis Bay due to the weather. Fond memories.
Fantastic voyage, sail , film and story... Fair winds all.
Sandefjord looks great. Tall mainmast. Super film which must have taken a lot of effort to make considering the date - 1966. Not even a VHF on board.
this film shows all the love and support from all the people on shore....at all ports....really cool...proud to see all of this...thanks
My father took us as kids to see this at the Labia and it had a profound effect on us all. Have often dreamt of a lifestyle such as this ever since.
Us too…
Thank You,Tusen Tak👍👍👍👍👍
thank thank you ,
Prachtige ietwat aubollige, typisch 60 er jaren productie met verschrikkelijke muziek er onder gezet, maar blijft de moeite waard om af te kijken
Nice Old Movie, thanks for Sharing
So enjoyed watching this Video. Thank you for uploading this, it brought back so many memories.
Beautiful film so enjoyed The whole voyage in a wonderful Time era The production ship and Crew we're magical to watch Thank you
Great documentary! Inspiring!
Fantastic video better than a lot of the crap we get nowadays
absolutely wonderful .
Thank you❤
Thank you, ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
AT about 1.28.30 sighting the coast of Australia with Mt Warning in the background.
I wondered how the filmed voyage was funded. Excellent documentary!
SV Free Spirit
Tarpon Springs Florida
Thank you and well done
Fantastic. What an adventure.
Brilliant
Tried reallyhard not to tear up watching this,I was 6 when we went to see her return to good old durbs.just seeing the old international jetty,pyc and rnyc in the background brought back so many memories of a youth misspent sailing my little dabchick and later mirror dingies around the basin.at the ripe old age of 62 I found myself crying my eyes out at the end of the film.thank you so much for the trip down memory lane.
120223 Wonderful movie Thank you so much .
FANTASTIC!!
Found the link to this on a blog. Never knew it existed. It's a great story on a great piece of maritime history.
Good job guys,cheers!
wow thank you for sharing this video. I guess that burning question? ,where is she now?
Sandefjord has been restored to her original glory as a life-saving boat by her current owners, a Norwegian family that has a passion for her history and what she meant to many others.
I love it
Wow what an adventure. beautiful boat too. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. how the world has changed in such a short time.
When Soth African was civilized.
Now it was nt that civilised was it
1966...one year before I ran away from home in Adelaide to sea on a Norwegian Oil tanker at 16.
Beautiful the old south African flag flying
I am the same age as the crew members we see in this movie, so we are all old timers now.. I noticed the beehive hairdo on one young woman and the Jackie Kennedy style clothes and hair on another. My wife had a beehive for our wedding in 1964, I am surprised that Sandjeford did not have a depth sounder. A sounder with a rotating neon light was available at reasonable price at the time.
At the end it appeared that Sandjeford ws under power in Durban harbor. Was the engine replaced when the old one was removed?
INCREIBLE !!!!que veamos en esta pelicula ,asi como azar, a La Esmeralda. El bello buque escuela de la armada chilena. Gracias
Nice remember from many sailing 😀 👍👍👍 🌈🎼🎇🌴💞☕☕☕
Great video, a bit melodramatic. I wonder if life was really like that back then. Everything sounding like a horn section :)
Melodramatic ?
You my friend have never been to sea in a small ship.
:), sorry,meant the music, the sea is anything but melodramatic, this i know@@thosoz3431
Does anyone know if they replaced the engine or did they sail the rest of the way without one? They never said in the film…
They sailed the rest of the way without an engine.
they sold the engine with a damaged gearbox for $400/Aus to raise funds and sailed the rest of the way home
What a bunch of amateurs! They were lucky to get through. I guess that is a credit to the ship and its builder and designer.
Do you REALLY think that? a foundering comment.
amazing time capsule ... and of course splendid sailing and "savoire vivre" ;-)
i wish everybody on our planet would have the financial resources to do things like that ...
Excellent video 👍 I subscrib
1:40 "With a heart of the finest blue Baltic oak."
Norway is not in the Baltics. I can't tell where they got their oak, but it doesn't sound right to me that they imported timber from the Baltics when there was good oak to be found in Norway. I tried to look it up, but could only find that the pitch pine was from Norway. (Just a little nitpick.)
Ah the good old days no use of safety harness or life preservers when on deck in storm conditions
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What was the story behind selling the diesel engine on Thursday island? I feel like something was missing here.
I asked my dad, Fanie Louw, and he says the engine was seldomly used (no generator) and they received a good offer, and needed the money.
@@sailingsandefjord4658 lol! That's exactly what I was guessing here!
@@sailingsandefjord4658 Just rewatched this great movie. What great adventures we all had. Not many of us left unfortunately. I’m starting to creak a bit myself but haven’t quite finished yet. Fond memories of your dad. 🐬🐬🐬🤺🤺❤️
@jackhargraves4919 Hi Jack, Fanie, and Jenny (my parents) send their regards. I live in Auckland also
Imagine they're all old people now
I would like to do something like that, maybe not with a ship but with an old plane or a car but some kind of adventure (I have to make up for the lack of excitement I had while beehing locked up for three years).
Broken mast and not being forced to give up, works with a certain financial background. Enjoy! (One could do silier things than travelling)
I like to sea and hear a version with other music. Amazing documantery
Where is Sande fjord now
Back when men were men and didn't regard any pfds or lifelines or foul weather gear.
I am sure that many with our "modern" sensibilities are horrified by them pitching the tin cans labels and all, overboard. Personally, I consider them as a short-term temporary home for some fish or scrimp. Temporary because they will rust away to nothing in less than a year.
Anyone else who took part in the restoration of ejdern watching this drama?
****THE YOUNG LADY ON BOARD , WON'T BE SINGLE LONG AS SHE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL INDEED.. LET'S WAIT AND FIND OUT..14 MINUTES INTO VIDEO..!
Sandefjord is a boat ore coast city in Norway
In 1964 on the Galapagos Island at 54:00 there are already 3 boats and crew, maybe more. No suprise that a few years later the Islands would be fully protected.
In less thant 29 years the sea would be crowded with cruising boats making life at sea an entire different experience as technology helped sailors with poor skills try their luck across the oceans… A sad fact.
Why it's sad ???
Where is she now?
Sandefjord has been restored to her original glory as a life-saving boat by her current owners, a Norwegian family that has a passion for her history and what she meant to many others.
I thought I saw the sandefjord sloop rigged and gaff rigged. Correct?
What a beautiful movie of one of the last true sea adventure . No GPS , no EPIRB , no depth sounder, liferaft, inflatables or harnesses.You had your sextant, your clock, you charts and a built in back breaking hand water pump, Hitech was a vague inaudible short wave radio general area forecast for the next three to seven days or so, You where on your own with the sea the wind and the clouds, and it sure kept the amateurs, the tourists, and the UA-camrs of the day away.
PS Please please somebody re-edit the score and lower this horrible screaming music or get rid of it . Please
14:02 pewdiepie?
Cans thrown in the sea. Terrible
What's so terrible about it?
@@secretsquirrel6308
Do you not see that turning our planet in to a garbage dump is a bad thing???
This goes also for the see floor.
If the dumpinmg of empty cans is tolerated surely other garbage will also follow.
It is actually shocking that you do not see this as a problem.
Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably the Varnished labels were more hazardous than the lightly Tinned Mild Steel Tins! 😂🤣😂🤣
Very low impact environmentally, not a Marpol violation. Still now any discharge is avoided by most. Cruise lines are still illegally dumping trash plastic and all to frequently.
There was a lot more thrown in the seas 60 years ago as a 91 year old Seafarer
Lovely film spoiled by awful music, which adds nothing at all.
Agreed. The "documentary" music of the time was very annoying with its attempts to suggest moods. The arrival in the WI was particularly bad.
What did you expect pop music it's the fxcking 60s
****AT 23 MINS IT'S NICE TO HERE **THE WORKS OF. THE. LORD* " MENTIONED...HARDLY HEAR THe LORD, mentioned NOWADAYS...!!!
“Coincidentally” i literally read your comment at the 23 min mark. 👍🏼
@@DerfyPoo ****WATCH 23 MINUTES IN HELL BY BILL WIESS SUPERNATURAL NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH WATCH THIS THOUGHT. PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT******
genuinely curious how did the buildge pumps run? did they run only when the engine ran was it a manual pump or were the batteries sufficient then to run the pump
Sandefjord is still sailing today. A testament to sound construction.
Thanks mate , that’s what I was wondering
Over 100 years old! Incredible
And a testament to good maintenance. It was built to last, but it takes a good deal of maintenance to ensure that it does.
@@ximono I agree completely.
Thank you, thank you, what a pleasure to travel back to those days of sailing ships crossing oceans. Well before container ships and the multitudes of humanity upon the seas.
All the people complaining about the music need to give it a break - the music, the style of narration and the way it is filmed & edited is typical of the era. This movie is a time capsule and a piece of history in its entirety, music and all and absolutely should not be changed one bit. That would ruin the emotion, the wonder and the ethos of the film!
Exactly.
I thought the music was great!
i have 60, and be exactamente así
Mary Clayton what a brave lady! What courage Mary has to do this voyage!
This circumnavigation was the real deal! Fantastic. Thank you so much for posting this. I work aboard a Norwegian Ketch built in 1939 that circumnavigated back in the 70's under the ownership of two Americans plus crew. She takes out school kids to earn her bread now but she could still do a whole lot more, they built these vessels in Norway to unbelievably strong standards. Shes 72 feet but her frame spacing and planking dimensions relative to her size make me think of an 18th century warship rather than a fishing vessel.
I have my own 33 foot plastic double ender I plan on heading offshore with, but if I had been born in the 70's it would have been a gaff rigged Norwegian built ketch, no question. Nowadays you have to be an investment banker to own a 40 foot wooden Ketch.
I was a young teacher when in the late 1960’s when the two Cullen brothers gave a talk and slide show to the primary school children at Orange Grove Primary and lit many fires for adventure in their minds and my own! Thank you for that inspiration. You have touched the lives of many and been great role models!
Passing French Atomic Testing grounds. Nice. Lets do some fishing!
Get out to the end of the bow sprit and get that sail down. What? Where’ my harness, tether, Jack line? Jack line, tether? Just get out there. Hang on with your legs
Immersed in this era with the film as it was. Now my turn I plan.
How the world has changed from those innocent days... particularly South Africa.
Does anyone knows about her crew ?
Loved it. As a 10 year old in 1966 in Queensland Australia the most emotional moment for me was listing to the ABC news broadcast being read by Peter Dor-Smith. I spent my childhood listening to that fanfare and Mr Dor-Smith at 7pm when the house was quiet under threat of punishment as my father pulled up his favourite chair to listen to the news on his radiogram. Also as a frustrated sailor and lover of all things sailing boats I enjoyed the.trip. Thanks for the memories and the opportunity to view.
What Great Times for navigation...really enjoyed thanks for this!
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Thank you to bring history back. Did enjoy.
120223 Congrats on a tremendous achievement. A visual pleasure to be part of.
This fine vessel a typical COLIN ARCHER design from Larvik Norway really great to see these classic ships at sea again just like the Southern Actor in Sandefjord Norway
The environment was no big concern in those days with rubbish and cans thrown overboard! Today we are paying dearly for this behaviour.
EPIC journey and beautiful sign of time!
Awesome movie. What happened with these people latet ? Where is Mary ????
Is this where they found the laugh for Quagmire? @21:50
4:23 🫡
Glad to see they remembered the "other essentials" 😂😂
Beautiful times when the world was normal