{"id":21456,"date":"2014-10-22T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=21456"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:32:29","slug":"the-film-with-jean-du-sud-around-the-world-re-mastered-in-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/10\/the-film-with-jean-du-sud-around-the-world-re-mastered-in-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Film With Jean-du-Sud Around the World Re-Mastered in HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What many consider the greatest sailing film ever made has been re-mastered in High Definition thanks to the generosity of Don Peebles, a New York sailing enthusiast. The 93 minute film was shot in 16 mm color with sound by Yves G\u00e9linas some 30 years ago during his solo 28,000 miles circumnavigation aboard his Alberg 30 sloop, Jean-du-Sud<\/em>, from Saint-Malo, France to Gasp\u00e9, Qu\u00e9bec — the other way around the world — by way of the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn.<\/p>\n

Intending to go sailing full-time, Don Peebles read many books about cruising under sail. In John Vigor’s Twenty Sailboats to Take You Anywhere<\/em>, he learned: “Several Alberg 30\u2019s have circumnavigated the world. (…) One of the best known circumnavigators is Jean-du-Sud, sailed by Yves G\u00e9linas who made an award-winning film of the trip<\/em>“.<\/em> Via Google, Peebles located the film and the CapeHorn Self-Steering System that Yves designed for his circumnavigation. After watching Jean-du-Sud<\/em>, Peebles recognized the poetry and great artistic quality of the film. Having worked in film himself, he felt Jean-du-Sud<\/em> deserved to be brought up to HD standards. So he contacted Yves and offered to have a 16 mm print re-mastered and color graded to High Definition in a New York facility at his own expense. In January 2014, G\u00e9linas travelled to New York City for the restoration and was thrilled with the result: “It is a whole new film, the picture is sharp and crisp again, colors are vibrant, true to life, a new life is given to my film<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

G\u00e9linas was an actor and filmmaker before he went sailing. His goal was to create a work of art that would paint a moving picture of his voyage and become his “masterpiece”.\u00a0 Jean-du-Sud was twice awarded the Palme D’Or at the prestigious La Rochelle International Sailing Film Festival: in 1983 for Part One \u2013 the story of the first leg, ending with the capsize and dismasting of Jean-du-Sud<\/em> in the Pacific; then in 1985, for Part Two \u2013 the story of the voyage\u2019s successful completion. Entered in seven international film festivals, Jean-du-Sud won a total of nine awards: five Gold, two with a unanimous jury, and one Silver. The film has been broadcast on television in eleven countries and has sold thousands of copies on VHS, DVD and as a standard definition download. Now it will be available in its full beauty through High Definition.<\/p>\n

As he did with his film, G\u00e9linas created a work of art when he designed the self-steering gear that guided Jean-du-Sud<\/em> around the world. The unit combines form with function complementing the beautiful lines of the Alberg 30 sloop drawn by Carl Alberg. But most importantly, the system steers impeccably on all points of sail: as soon as sail can be set and as long as it can be carried, and under all conditions of wind or sea. G\u00e9linas tested the prototype while making the film and never had to hold the tiller. The last scenes show the gear steering Jean-du-Sud<\/em> into Gasp\u00e9 — downwind under main and reacher, wing on wing, without a pole to keep the large head sail from collapsing. G\u00e9linas had achieved his goal and went on to proudly offer his self-steering gear to fellow sailors — with a guarantee valid for one circumnavigation or 28,000 miles. He named the gear simply, CapeHorn, evoking the ultimate sailor\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n

The restored High Definition version of With Jean-du-Sud Around the <\/em>World<\/em> is available as an HD Download at www.thesailingchannel.tv\/jean-du-sud\/<\/a>. Information about the CapeHorn Self-Steering system at www.capehorn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What many consider the greatest sailing film ever made has been re-mastered in High Definition thanks to the generosity of Don Peebles, a New York sailing enthusiast. The 93 minute film was shot in 16 mm color with sound by Yves G\u00e9linas some 30 years ago during his solo 28,000 miles circumnavigation aboard his Alberg 30 sloop, Jean-du-Sud, from Saint-Malo, France to Gasp\u00e9, Qu\u00e9bec — the other way around the world — by way of the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn. Intending to go sailing full-time, Don Peebles read many books about cruising under sail. In John Vigor’s Twenty Sailboats to Take You Anywhere, he learned: “Several Alberg 30\u2019s have circumnavigated the world. (…) One of the best known circumnavigators is Jean-du-Sud, sailed by Yves G\u00e9linas who made an award-winning film of the trip“. Via Google, Peebles located the film and the CapeHorn Self-Steering System that Yves designed for his circumnavigation. After watching Jean-du-Sud, Peebles recognized the poetry and great artistic quality of the film. Having worked in film himself, he felt Jean-du-Sud deserved to be brought up to HD standards. So he contacted Yves and offered to have a 16 mm print re-mastered and color graded to High Definition …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[200,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21461,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions\/21461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}