Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World

Incredible journey with an awesome crew and ship! I cant wait for more movies and episodes of this crew's adventures! I highly recommend this movie!!

A group of rather irresponsible people, some with small children, band together to take a rather random trip to Antarctica and then to Chile. Using an adventure boat its original builder never completed, they build it up and scrape up money to make the trip. But the crew cannot be too irresponsible-the journey requires great know-how and very hard work and will go into very dangerous waters indeed, where all sorts of possible dangers can await.

The movie concentrates mostly on the crew itself and how they have to work and know exactly what to do and when to do it. Those who are expecting a lot of nature photography are going to be disappointed. But the movie succeeds in making the point that being a gypsy is definitely not a life of ease.

Absolutely brilliant. Very rarely levee reviews but I don't understand why this has soo few?! It's fantastic. Easy to watch. Really worth your time. Soo much better than the recent rock climbing documentaries etc... I get bored on those and think, hmmm maybe I should commit to a real film instead. I guarantee with this documentary type film, you will feel sucked in from 5 minutes until the very end.

Absolutely amazing, how this isn't trending I seriously don't know....

Please watch and thank me later.

Loved this documentary. Look forward to feeling like a part of their crew. I've watched literally every sailing documentary available, and this one is by far my favorite. Just true sailors doing an incredible thing.

And it was fantastic!

What an adventure! Which is what we are all doing anyways. It's just some of us choose to make the adventure a little more safe/boring.

The greatest parts of this wonderful documentary include the wisdom of the crew and captain, shared nakedly to camera/audience once in awhile throughout. Little gifts of wisdom that the filmmaker was wise enough to know were meant for our (the audience's) ears.

The other wise move on the filmmaker's part was to give us tastes of the environmental and ethical catastrophes humans create, by showing us interactions in the whaling trade, as well as focus on the plastic pollution of the ocean and the decrease in life abundance in the fish population. It wasn't a "hit you over the head" endeavor, like most environmentalist films. It was simply just a bite of the whole pizza of the adventure they were on. Therefore, the adventure took precedence, which made it a story, and not a lecture.

I've learned so much from this film, and I'm so grateful.

Be ye on yer way, matee! Go onward cross the windward skies forever safe and warm.