i remember there to be on the net at around time movie was release some where pictures of the all the models and ships use for movie potc. i can not find now? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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hms Dauntless was hms Victory in every way but scale down. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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here is story from issue of Sailing magazine that tell much information of all the ships in the Potc movie.
about hms Dauntless is almost at bottom all rest is imteresting as well? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" />
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: The Movie
By Joe Ditler
HOLLYWOOD -- Walt Disney Films, which brought us such seagoing adventure epics as "Treasure Island," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," and "Swiss Family Robinson," is preparing to launch their latest attempt in the maritime film genre, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl." The film releases in July across the country, and will cross the start line ahead of 20th Century Fox's much-anticipated "Master and Commander" in an effort to fire a first broadside upon an unsuspecting moviegoing audience.
Disney's film rests somewhere in the clear and shallow waters between "Captain Blood" and "Jason and the Argonauts," but provides a most colorful vehicle for stars Johnny Depp ("Chocolat"), Orlando Bloom ("Lord of the Rings"), and Geoffrey Rush ("Tailor of Panama").
The special effects alone are worth the ride, but ships such as the bluff-bowed brig Lady Washington give viewers a special bonus as she charges across the Caribbean in search of Aztec gold.
The movie was filmed in St. Vincent and throughout the extremely photogenic Windward Islands of the Grenadines.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" is a humorous and brilliantly costumed ghost story that has nothing to do with the Disneyland ride of the same name. But for sailors, the thrills and on-the water scenes provided in this film are non-stop.
Lady Washington, which portrays the ship Interceptor, is in reality the official tall ship of the state of Washington. To get to the filming she had to make a harrowing passage south along the west coast and through the Panama Canal where ship and crew were pushed to their limits by storms.
Once in the Caribbean, production crews went to work carving cannon ports along her sides which gave the Lady's owners quite a fright. The hull was restored upon completion of the film, however, and the ship has returned to the West Coast and resumed her regular high-profile mission as a floating classroom.
The two other ships in the film, Dauntless and the Black Pearl, appear to be frighteningly realistic ships on screen, but in reality were built up from steel barges. In the end, they were dismantled and trucked away by the garbage collector -- short life span for any ship.
To accomplish such cinematic creativity the barges were affixed with bent steel frames, then concrete was laid up vertically and stained to look like aged and weathered wood. From the outside the ships appear complete at the bow and stern, and forward along both port and starboard.
The barge/ships were moved around by tugboats hidden from the camera's view. Where the re-created ships were not whole, computer imaging filled in.
Rigging and sails were added, as well as railings, helms, stairs, cannon carriages, and deck furniture, which were all fabricated on site.
More than 1,200 wooden blocks were built. And nearly 100 cannons were poured of fiberglass from silicon molds before being fitted with metal inserts which allowed them to fire explosive cartridges that spewed flames and smoke into the air on command.
Much of the realism in these fabricated ships came from Courtney Andersen, a 34-year-old ship rigger with experience on the replicas Half Moon (seven years) and HMS Bounty.
"The Black Pearl was portrayed in the screenplay as a ghostly-looking ship, more like a galleon from the late 1600s," said Andersen. "She was a sort of Flying Dutchman, destined to sail under a curse, just as was the Dutchman of legend."
Dauntless was built as a three-quarter-scale replica of HMS Victory. Both ships were about 120 feet in length. Andersen's work was so believable he has relocated to Los Angeles from New York where he hopes to serve in future ships of the Hollywood fleet. To round out the sailing scenes, small ship models were created by the special effects team of George Lucas and filmed in a water tank in the San Francisco area.
The special effects are grand, and "Pirates of the Caribbean" should be on everyone's list of movies to see this summer.
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