A 1978 documentary that follows the attempt by three young people to be the first windsurfers to cross Cook Strait. Directed and narrated by Sam Neill (soon to be famous as an actor) for the National Film Unit. The skeptical Cook Strait pilot John Cataldo asks them: "do you wanna have a crack?" "Yeah, bloody oath" one of the surfers replies. They face the Strait's infamous winds, tides, swells, sharks and exhaustion. Some stunning helicopter shots include a windsurfer clipping through whitecaps with a pod of dolphins in its wake.
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Short Film, 1974 (Full Length)
An NFU doco on capturing a dolphin in the Marlborough Sounds for Marineland
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Bruce Spedding | website
Posted at 02.26AM - 12.05.2009
Fantastic to discover this - I read about it in Barbara Kendall's biography 'Wind Driven' - recommended. I'm now curious to see if there is any more windsurfing footage. Search not helped by classification as 'wind surf' rather than 'windsurf'