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Thanks! That is the Cruz Del Sur, she was Chilean Navy cadet training ship. she was full of termites, scuttled after the filming. The schooner was the Caribe, belonged to Mike Burke of Windjammer Cruises. He had a schooner called the Mandalay too. A guy I knew only as Capt Angel ran Mandalay up on a reef, tore up the bottom. I heard that Burke was leasing out Caribe to pay for the repairs.

The Cruz had all steel standing rigging, we had to cover it all for the movie. They had 4 strand coca fiber rope from the movie Cleopatra. We would start at the top in a bosuns chair, unlay the 4 strand a bit at a time, and cover the steel cable.

We worked at the Merril Stevens Yard in Miami. The girls would cross the bridge at 12th Ave. and honk, if you couldn't get a date almost every day something was bad wrong, LOL.

They made some fake yards out of plywood, just a skin over ribs and struts. Those were the ones to be dropped on deck.

I didn't really know what I was doing, spent a long weekend in the Coconut Grove library and got up to speed. Most of the riggers ended up there with me, we all had sail experience but not what we really needed. We got it done!