Boat from Jaws to return
t’s not quite “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”… more a case of “we’re gonna need the same boat” for the team building a replica of from the 1975 movie . Who can forget the wooden sport fisher with the distinctive wheelhouse that featured in one of the most famous films ever made? Or her rough, priapic skipper Quint, modelled after Ahab from ? In reality, there were two boats used during filming: a glassfibre model for the final scene, with the killing of the shark and the sinking of the boat, and the other, a real boat, used for all other scenes. Neither of these exists today, so the new is going to be a close reinterpretation of the original. Helping realise this project are production designer Joe Alves and Martha’s Vineyard local Chris Crawford, who refitted the boat in just six weeks in 1974 to create the original . This time, the new Orca will be a refit from a Nova Scotia lobster boat, . Crawford will lead a team of boatbuilders on site while Alves, at home in LA for the pandemic, will provide plans and art direction to ensure the boat resembles the original as far as possible.
