Name: Bermuda Cockleshells
Genre: Short, Sport
Duration: 8 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Peter Roberts

Peter Roberts narrates this brief glimpse of Bermuda sailing craft, courtesy of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club where men and children practice their skill in handling sailboat dinghies in the Bermuda waters.

The odd looking rigs make for picturesque viewing, but the film cries out for color. Sailing into the wind toward a finish line is the whole point of these races and sometimes the participants get more than they bargained for when the dinghies are upset by either a too crowded crew or lines that get snagged. Nevertheless, despite getting dumped into water occasionally, these crews of four to nine men seem to be having a good time.

It's a cooling off kind of thing to watch on a hot summer day.

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This "Sportscope" series entry chronicles a race for a special class of sailboat known as Bermuda Fitted Dinghy.

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