Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World

I found this movie by accident and I'm so happy I watched it. Between what they are able to accomplish with ingenuity and sheer will amazed me. It makes one realize how much can be achieved by working together.

Between the lack of money, the polar bears, the equipment, and the announcement that they will be eating vegan made me laugh and cry, and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

Captain Clemens is multi talented leader and reminds us the only reason they can even attempt this dangerous journey is because of global warming.

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.

Simply incredible. If you have an unquenchable thirst for adventure Sea Gypsies is your prefect film. This documentary completely changed my life. Watched it once, six months later I was living on SV Infinity.

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.

I usually love sea travel stories, but this film's constant terrible narration ruins its potential. Every narration is an overused catch phrase or cliche spoken in a sing-songy tone that doesn't fit the mood of the action on screen. Actual narrator quote "we live in the moment and sail on a whim on a shoestring budget". Ugh. And every piece of narration is nearly this awful. (By the way, documenting a well-planned expedition with predetermined stops/destination is NOT sailing on a whim). It's a shame cause the rest of the crew seemed interesting but they were made quite secondary to the narrator's super pretentious babbling: "what are seen in abundance are fishing fleets that use the island nations as a staging ground for their thankless task of rapidly depleting the Pacific of anything semi-edible". Talk like human, you tool.