Film about engineless sailing

project to shoot a 12mm movie about engineless sailing will go ahead after it won will premiere in 2024 on the in Greenwich. The launch will be followed by “a 10-week, sail-powered, screening voyage” onboard the Thames sailing barge (pictured below), which is operated by the Sea-Change Sailing Trust. Around 120 young people and adult trainees will join as crew to deliver the barge to English ports, where the public will be invited onboard for screenings. As well as , the film will feature the ketch Looe lugger gaff-rigged Leigh bawley and Essex smack . Director Huw Wahl, who is making the film with sailor Rose Ravetz, describes the project as “an artists’ documentary film that will explore the absorbed attention and artistry of engineless sailing”.