![]() ![]() He also proves more popular with Martin's family than Martin himself. ![]() Though plagued by a sense of indirection that causes him to navigate past island stops on the trip, Ron otherwise proves an expert seaman. Rather than leaving the sailing to Ron, Martin hauls his family south to soak up some adventure that, of course, gets out of hand. Though not shipwrecked, The Wanderer, docked in the Caribbean, does turn out to be more of a wreck than a ship, a point injudiciously relayed to boatīroker Donaldson (Paul Anka), who plans to junk it as soon as it hits port in Miami. His wife Katherine (Mary Kay Place), their budding teenage daughter Caroline (Meadow Sisto) and pre-adolescent son Benjamin (Benjamin Salisbury). The boat has been inherited from a long-forgotten uncle by a yuppie family consisting of Martin Harvey (Martin Short), Russell plays the title character, a dreadlocked, drydocked bum hired to pilot a boat, The Wanderer, which was once supposed to have belonged to Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. We flew with whatever part it was that the engine needed to get him back stateside.Former Disney juvenile star Kurt Russell looks right at home in CAPTAIN RON, a bland, seagoing, feature-length sitcom which recycles the displaced-dad theme from the studio's recent hit WHAT ABOUT BOB? to little effect. Then the living area, then the galley, and capt’s quarters in the rear with a King equivalent and 1/2 bath.įor reasons still unknown to me, dad took the Wanderer down to Roatan during Y2K and got stranded down there. ![]() 3 staterooms: forward had a 2-bunk bed and a hidden toilet, mid was a 1-bunk on top of storage (full shower bathroom directly across). The inside is (or, was) all hand carved teak. It looks like the teak hasn’t been refinished since we did it. I can’t stand that movie anymore, or the Macarena (my mom thought it would be cute for all crew to stop what they were doing and do the gotdamn Macarena 30 miles off the coast for every charter.)Īt some point she lost her main mast (teak, cracked down the center), my dad was the one that went with the green aluminum main and mizzen. I spent a lot of time as crew on charters in the gulf. So, my family is the one that bought and chartered it in Kemah in the 90s. These weren’t all Roman innovations, but the nature of such a highly interconnected world spurred such developments on Carthage (or Qart Hadasht) is the best known such colony, as it’s almost directly west of Tyre.almost as if they followed the progress of the wandering star (today Venus, to them identified with Astarte) from east to west across the sea.ġ sailing and method changed a lot over the course of the thousands of years called the ancient world as the Roman Empire brought everything closer together and improved navigation, routes, etc. This established their trade empire and colonies at vast distances from their ‘mother cities’ of Tyre and Sidon. If I recall from some research I did, coming out of the Bronze Age, the Phoenicians were the only people in the Mediterranean who sailed at night and out of sight of land because of their skill with navigation. 1 As /u/Nolubrication mentions, celestial navigation was demanding, even in the relatively more modern era of sailing. Many sailors in the ancient Mediterranean kept the coast in sight for their entire journey.
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