This link leads to the Amazon listing for this movie (flagged with my handy OYB-donation tag).
The real website for this movie is here: www.cackletv.com/this-is-the-sea.html.
This is a wonderful movie series filmed by Justine Curgenven. (Is she Welsh? It’s pronounced “cur-GEN-ven” with a hard G.)
Her new Volume 4 in the series is a two-DVD set for $30 mailed.
There are 2.5 hours of ten feature films in this set!
Sea kayaking is sweet, as I’ve said before, because it’s accessible. That’s fancy talk for “affordable.” Also, it’s never broke down and busted. And you can almost always git up and get to someplace good. With bigger boats there’s exponentially more wasted time even on the water…and more money, maintenance and risk. Sure, there are skills and knacks to learn but they’re scaled right: you can do it. And, they’re tasty skills with abundant payback. When you catch on, you’ll smile big. An afternoon and a well-made boat will get you 10+ miles down the coast, no problem. Yeah, there are risks and sometimes fairly complex scenarios requiring well-trained solutions…but we can usually avoid those.
These are friendly movies that put you fully in touch with the sea, the weather, mellow folks, and good skills—that are always in the Masters age-group! –Nobody goes 20 feet in the air no-handed in sea-kayaking. And the activities aren’t done for the sake of the camera. Fact is, thanks to compact, affordable, waterproof cams, we can finally just go along for the ride on the nifty outings that these folks are going on anyway, coz who could resist?
There’s also always neat indy music in a variety of genres.
In this Volume 4 we meet Dubside, a black-clad rasta paddler who takes a bus to get to the water (with boat in duffle). He’s into Greenland gymnastics, which are done on 2 slack ropes strung side by side. You can practice kayak rolling on dry-land this way—like the Greenlanders have done for hundreds of years. Dubside shows us how.
Dubside goes with the music just fine.
Sea kayaking is a big scene. Justine is gradually showing us all its sides. (Personally, I love freaky boats—more freaky boats! Also, surfskis would be neat to see blazing along. Maybe some coverage of a huge S. African kayak race… or some wildwasser (wildwater/downriver) race action. Don’t get me goin’! Coz I’ll bust out into small boat sailing in 2 more seconds… Of course, you can sail a kayak…and you can add akas to one in a jiffy…oh, the rigs!)
There are quite a few video clips on Justine’s website. I also have a write-up and a clip from her Volume 3 here at OYB. –That DVD had a sweet feature on 2 amazing champion women rollers…with a great soundtrack, too. I just love watching people do their thing in water and wave. …But without too much “big air.”
Thanks again, Justine!
https://www.amazon.com/This-Sea-4-Justine-Curgenven/dp/B001DTTMWO/jeffpottersoutyoA
