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From hours of audio tapes recorded by Captain Jim Sharp, the voice of Captain Jack Crowell, master of the famed schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud will resonate richly from your speakers while the video images of a magnificent schooner in big trouble, hard aground in a remote and barren wilderness of Frobisher Bay, holds you spellbound. Captain Jack narrates this very personal and agonizing experience in his own voice, in his own words, in his own emotion while the camera pans ice cakes, polar bears and the jagged rocks of the Canadian Arctic .
Introduced by Captain Jim
Sharp
How ever did the famous schooner Gertrude L.Thebaud--- The Great White-Winged Flyer, as she was called---escape from the disaster that fate handed her on the saw-tooth rocks of Frobisher Bay? Captain Jack Crowell is your narrator. He explains in his own words from the tapes of his memoirs, the details of this incredible life-threatening disaster of the MacMillan expedition to the white north in 1937. How, after having been stranded, her planking crushed and distorted, the sharp and unforgiving rocks causing her hull to leak profusely, she made an amazing and fortuitous escape from this cruel land, saving thirty-five souls from an almost certain Arctic death. In this spectacular footage, the Gertrude L. Thebaud, although still soggy from being inundated with a deluge of Arctic water filling her to her decks---strained, twisted and stove---hull, machinery, accommodation and valuable scientific material near ruin---miraculously came from the danger and sailed home. Captain Jack nursed her from the rocky ledge, bailed dry that enormous vessel, fled that inhospitable land and, sailing her hard, returned triumphantly into Gloucester Harbor to the awaiting crowds.
Gertrude L Thebaud -Frobisher Bay disaster, 1937 Contact Sharpadventures.com for your copy, $25.00 DVD only+$4.handling *****************************************************
This near tragedy was only one spectacular, hair-raising event in the exciting life of Captain Jack Crowell�The DVD is fascinating but doesn�t tell nearly enough about this man. Explorer and master mariner, Captain Jack's fifty years at sea included training in square-rigged ships, commanding the little Arctic schooner Bowdoin, and schooners Radio and Sachem, as well as the Thebaud on Arctic exploration and scientific work, and effecting years of research on both polar regions in the harshest weather known to man. Truly a man of note in the annals of the sea...is Captain John T. Crowell.
Captain John T.
Crowell are now published. The book is available. Don�t miss this grand drama of a life in the far
north. �I Loved This Work� Edited and coordinated by Spencer Apollonio Ordering: Captain Jim Sharp
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