Quote Originally Posted by Andy Blozinski View Post
If you're running a production that's on a tight schedule and doesn't have an open budget and you schedule the cast, crew and ship to film a scene on Wednesday and the wind does not comply to make your sails fill and look 100% correct....you fire up the Evinrude concealed at the back of the boat and roll the cameras anyways.
You have to give them credit for caring to make the whole ship prop and encourage such behavior for future projects. I think Saving Private Ryan helped shift a lot of attitudes in Hollywood.
True, that's what I found sailing on a tall ship. Schedules must be kept and often that means firing up the "iron sail"