Favorite Nautical Movies

[bill@ariel231]

what? nobody here has given credit to what may be the genesis of both small boat cruising and spy novels?

"The Riddle of the Sands" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079808/

it's based on the 1903 book "The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service " by Erskine Childers. The book is even better (and free on-line):

http://books.google.com/books?id=p441AAAAMAAJ&dq=Erskine+Childers&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=erskine+childers&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=author-navigational

it's now required reading for my crew


p.s. Childers' Bio is as facinating as any of his books:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_Childers