INTRODUCTION

The screenplay SOAKED for brevity… THREE STORIES: ... The FIRST to please children, sailors and landlubbers alike with dramatic sailing action coupled with CLEAN, realistic descriptive dialog to intensify the sailing action. Rich scenic beauty throughout the production… At times childlike comedy. Written for broad audience appeal… Even to please the most hard nosed competitive sailor… it’s tactically spot on for the racing fraternity. The story line, in part, takes you through the scenic beauty of the PANAMA CANAL...artfully  presented by KATALINA, REGGIE'S girlfriend in character with her TV program in Panama aided by LAUREN... " I've been through the Canal many times"

The SECOND… Pure Entertainment. The Crew & Supporting Characters are highly likeable, to make you laugh, cry put you on the edge of your seat and cheer… All crew and supporting characters are gracefully resolved in the finale... Then EXPLOSIVE conclusion... Entertainment...There WILL be dancing in the Aisles... I guarantee it.... “After sailing 5000 miles”?... LINCOLN DOUGLAS & THE DEBATE…” Thanks to enterprising and talented VICTOR… LINCOLN and supporting character KATE…”The Harvard performing Arts Genius...” adopted niece of BODIE,. Supporting Character... Americas Cup sailor ’74… KATE’s been performing with LINCOLN since her high school days. We meet them in ACT One.... Clean Dialogue and no explicit Sex...in order to engage Children who will love it...

THE CREW:

REGGIE...The Captain… World class Sailor, Seaman, Ships Officer, Naval Architect but a drunk. now EX drunk…thanks of course in part for the storm and his “RUDE awakening”.

HARRY...REGGIE’s Merchant Marine shipmate, & old AA buddy... Graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy… Ret. Navy Seal, now sailing as Chief Engineer. HARRY met REGGIE aboard ship during Persian Gulf War. HARRY’s got 4 months vacation…expected a leisurely sail across the Pacific with REGGIE looking for Bali Hai.

LAUREN... Currently Deepwater Magazine’s ( A failing publication) Chief Photographer. A young widow, who was formally with CNN. A very accomplished sailor... A Wellesley girl from the MA. North shore. Strong girl but emotionally vulnerable.

VICTOR... World’s foremost fashion designer, strung out, a good guy, life in a gilded cage. Magazine acquaintance of Lauren... We find out, through VICTOR’s mother MARIA his older brother” N.Y. F. D. died 9/11 … His father Ernesto died on the N.Y. subway, Heart attack, looking for John. Ernesto sailed with HARRY’s father US Lines… MARIA knew HARRY’s father... MARIA “You are your father’s son, and brother of JOHN, N.Y. F. D., never forget that VICTOR… VICTOR looking down…”Mother you are embarrassing them” During an emotionally tense moment of the scene... REGGIE... "Any son of a U.S. Lines sailor is sure welcome on my boat. “We find out later in the story… VICTOR plays drums”… Story time frame around 2002.

ROXANNE.... Almost Dr. of Psychology, Fl. State. She’s being held back emotionally. GEORGE STILLWELL’s niece. GEORGE a great guy supporting character, a WW2 hero in the Pacific… Family owned boat yard in Fl. Perhaps the result of the loss of her father at a young age (4)... who we find was washed overboard during a yacht race in Florida SORC circuit... Roxanne a sweet fine person, warm, sociable, good sailor but still the loaner… Is she still waiting for her father to return? GEORGE and younger 2nd. brother JOHN STILLWELL Psychiatrist thinks so.

LINCOLN DOUGLAS... Like REGGIE a world class sailor on the North Shore... LINCOLN is also a great guitar player... LINCOLN DOUGLAS & THE DEBATE. As JIMMY FAYE, supporting character, a respected World Class Sailor, an Iron Worker out of Boston said...”THEY could have went far… MAYBE…Both LINC and REGGIE were thrown off East Wind during the Americas Cup Trials years before... (JIMMY having ran the foredeck in those days)... LINCOLN drugs... REGGIE drinking... For LINCOLN Sailing IS Rock N Roll. Clean now 10 years, his group all O’d around him. Pepper Davis is still with him. We find out, LINCOLN sober and clean thanks to his AA sponsor, the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV had four years sobriety before plane crash the only one who was able to reach out to him. LINCOLN's sister Joan, we find out, went to Wellesley with LAUREN.

The Boat... is OLD… wood 12 meter... Said to be at one time, though… the most beautiful sloop ever built... now, REGGIE’s boat, called Worldwind... The New York Yacht Club needs REGGIE’s help because of his experience, in his yacht design efforts in Panama... and his experience in Polynesian waters… For his help they will provide all new Racing Sails... Does he have a shot at it?... not much… but with LINCOLN coming aboard in Panama, running the foredeck, with Reggie Captain, and the other fine crew members... and the right conditions… Who knows?... in the 4000 mile race for the Paul Gaughan Cup to Tahiti… The key for Worldwind an improbable west wind… REGGIE knows… James Michener’s description in his book HAWAII “Waiting for the West Wind”… in the final leg … 500 miles from Tahiti due west … a long shot at best, a weather tack... at the wrong time of year... the gales the ancient Polynesians waited for were from the West…”This isn’t the first time racing REGGIE might get lucky. As JIMMY FAYE told REGGIE in Panama... REGGIE they can’t touch you up wind in heavy weather… You got a shot at it... take LINCOLN… Who knows.

I might add the story engages other wonderful characters and boats...The Competitors in the 2 races..terminating in Tahiti...Everything is highly realistic. "You might expect an education in long distance sailing"...What I intended for the world wide audience...without the benefit/liability of getting SOAKED. "I've been there" my intention, sharing the experience. For the race hardened sailor an exciting, realistic and spectacular tactical maneuver to win the race

The THIRD

… The Spiritual story… realistically conveys what can happen to a person, alone at sea coming out of an experience of a bad storm; main character spending 18 days at sea on the vessel during Act ONE... The experience, the terrible storm is intertwined with… Mythology... Brendan the Navigator…”Greatest single handed Sailor who ever lived”… Patron Saint of Sailors. The spiritual transformation is very believable. The story lightly autobiographical…The characters inspired in part by my own reality… many years sailing.... Myself having spent 33 days alone at sea on my challenged vessel mid Pacific before thankfully making port. I might add my own experience sailing from the Galapagos to NUKU HIVU took me 54 days at sea before seeing land "Steering Gear Broke"...(More on that last link")

REGGIE in the end, figuring out, through his experience what's important; winning back his girlfriend KATALINA... The man she once knew before he went back drinking.
 

The script is available on the next link to those with password, generally connected within the industry. If you have a particular interest, you can send an E-mail. My address on my Home Page near the bottom... The music download version U-Tube. Thank you again for visiting my site...Tomas





 

WithTrevor coming aboard known as the Doc. an experienced rhythm guitar player...coupled with Pepper's great talent on Keyboard...ITS WACKY WEDNESDAY AT THE BALBOA YACHT CLUB...Lincoln lets loose for the MAN...his AA sponsor,  who saved his life, who got him off drugs... the Late Great Stevie Ray Vaughan....they back that up with the Fabulous Thunderbirds MY BABE to showcase their talent..at this last Wackey Wednesday at the Yacht Club just before the Races.