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‘The Weekend Sailor’ Returns

If you missed the award-winning film The Weekend Sailor when it debuted in San Francisco in March, you’ll get a second chance to watch in a theater next month.

The 107-year-old Roxie Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District will host an encore on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. A Q&A via Skype with Mexican filmmaker Bernardo Arsuaga will follow the screening. The film is in English and Spanish with English subtitles. Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, an actual rock star, not to mention a Whitbread vet (Drum, 1985-86), narrates.

The crew of Ramón Carlín’s S&S-designed Swan 65 Sayula II.

Roxie Theater
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In case you’re not familiar with the film, here’s the backstory: In 1973, a most unlikely competitor from an unlikely country entered the first-ever Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race (now called the Volvo Ocean Race). Ramón Carlín Lima, a successful Mexican businessman in his fifties, had only been sailing casually for a couple of years and had no boat and barely a crew. Among the 17 competitors, the British Royal Navy purchased six yachts to train 800 men and chose the best four 10-man crews for each of the four legs of the race. Who would win?

Bernardo Arsuaga won the 2016 San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival Director’s Award. See www.theweekendsailor.com for more about the movie.

Ramón Carlín at the helm during the Whitbread Race. Thanks to Sayula II crew Keith Lorance for calling us to let us know of the encore screening.

© 2016 Keith Lorance

Carlín passed away on May 5 of this year, at the age of 92.

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