SAVAGE WATERS
Regular readers may have noticed that here at SWS our interest in Wharram Catamarans has morphed into a minor obsession over the last year or so.
https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/eight-bells-james-wharram
https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/people-of-the-seajames-wharrams-autobiography
https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-lapita-voyage
Well how could we not sit up and notice this adventure film released TODAY in the UK.
While it seems to ostensibly be about an adventure surfing family, we all know that really the star of the story is Wharram Pahi 52!
Many surfing movies suffer from a deficit of substance over style… but according to this review by Cath Clarke in today’s Guardian Newspaper that might not be the case with “Savage Waters”
Savage Waters review – surfing family goes in search of Victorian adventurer’s big waves
Ordinarily you don’t expect emotional depths from a surfing documentary. But I suspect that Savage Waters is not the surfing doc that director Mikey Corker set out to make. The story begins when Matt Knight, a sailor and surfer in his 50s, reads a book written by Victorian adventurer EF Knight (no relation) an account of an 1890s voyage to find Spanish gold rumoured to buried in the rocks of the Savage Islands, a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic. What catches Knight’s attention is his namesake’s two-page description of the epic waves off the islands – narrated beautifully here by Charles Dance in a voice so deep and rich it could lure you on to the rocks.
