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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822983" data-attributes="member: 53455">Oh, I totally agree with you! Today’s America’s Cup is a big circus, it’s got very little to do with actual sailing. It’s got more to do with the Wright brothers’ attempts at getting and remaining airborne! I still get my kicks watching and re-watching feature films like Wind and Masquerade —I recommend them both to you if you haven’t seen them already, the opening sequence in Masquerade is the most gripping and realistic bluewater racing footage I have ever seen in a thriller movie: expert actual sailing filmed by a master director and skilled camera operators, and great editing and sound effects to follow! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":love:" />In fact, I agree with you so much that I have decided to feature today two of those traditional twelves of yesteryear that we loved and still love: first below, Ikra, the 1964-built, former UK’s K-3 Kurrewa V, racing in the bay in front of Marseilles (the big black and yellow tower behind the boat is a so-called “cardinal” navigation beacon signalling an underwater danger, and in this case it was also used as a racecourse mark), and then the older US-9 Seven Seas, built in 1935, sailing off Cannes during the “Régates royales”.Sorry for the stripped EXIFs on those as well, but you know the drill: Nikon D3 or D3S, and the lens would be either the 70-200 ƒ/2.8 or the 200-400 ƒ/4 Nikkor.[ATTACH=full]409021[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]409022[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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