Eye of the Wind
Let your spirit set sails...
Classic 132' Brigantine - Completely renovated in 1976 and 2002
Movie Roles
| Since completion of the original renovation in 1975 "Eye of
The Wind" has appeared in many feature films and TV documentaries.
The list includes:
"Savage Islands", with Tommy Lee Jones as a
swash-buckling brigand on the South Seas was filmed in Fiji and New
Zealand. The film became locally notorious for setting fire to one
of the islands in the Bay of Islands, after a particularly
spectacular climax to the movie! A brief appearance alongside the Bounty replica in Moorea (the nearest island to Tahiti) during the filming of the remake of "Bounty" with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins as the notorious Captain Bligh.
More recently, she has appeared in the Australian
film "Desperate Fortune", telling the story of the great British
navigator, Matthew Flinders and in Ridley-Scott’s "White Squall"
where she starred as the ill fated "Albatross". Most recently Eye of The Wind provided the fine sailing footage seen in the BBC Horizon documentary "The Search for Longitude" telling the story of John Harrison’s development of the first practical ship’s chronometer. With the list of film credits outdoing many of the film actors
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