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Originally Posted by mphatc
I've heard the story about the crash on to the rocks in the Varney's as well, many many years ago.
there's also a story that that scene was done with an old sister ship to the Thayer and it needed to be rigged to destruct as the boat was to solid and bounced of the rocks. As I heard it, an I beam with a hydraulic ram was installed and planks were half cut to fracture . ..
Mario L.
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Yes...on our tour, we were told things went exactly as you have described here.
In fact, the first time the scene was shot, the boat bounced off the rocks, sending the two stunt men into the water. It came away with nothing more than a few scatches.
They had no idea how solid the construction was, and how much the hull could take.