
Bermuda Cockleshells
This "Sportscope" series entry chronicles a race for a special class of sailboat known as Bermuda Fitted Dinghy.
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"THis late RKO Sportscope short -- which seems to have been released by Universal for some reason -- concerns itself with the small sailboat racing of Bermuda. Although the narrator refers to them as 'fireflies', when I was learning to pilot one a decade and a half after this was made, they weren't called that; sometimes I heard them called 'sailfishes', but perhaps that was the local name for them. There are few sights more beautiful that a boat zipping along, the white sails bellied full of wind against the blue sky. While this is a black & white film, it's ..."
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The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is still in operation today. It was founded in 1844 and is advertised as the third oldest Royal club outside of Great Britain.
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This "Sportscope" series entry chronicles a race for a special class of sailboat known as Bermuda Fitted Dinghy.





