Surf Sail

This 17 minute documentary follows an attempt by Chris Wylie, Grant Beck and Susie Gibb to be the first windsurfers to cross Cook Strait. It is directed and narrated by Sam Neill, who had recently starred in breakthrough movie Sleeping Dogs. Skeptical Cook Strait pilot John (Giovanni) Cataldo asks them "do you wanna have a crack?" "Yeah, bloody oath" replies one of the trio. The surfers 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.