"FITZCARRALDO" is a movie by the amazing German director Werner Herzog.
some info on it can be found here:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0083946/
Basically, its a move about a madman named Brian Fitzgerald ("Fitzcarraldo" to the Peruvian Indians who couldn't pronounce his name correctly) whose greatest dream was to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle. His means to accomplish this is by taking a giant steamship upriver and then moving it over a mountain to get to the next river, upon the shores of which he will build his fantastic opera house.
Fitzcarraldo is played by actor and real life madman Klaus Kinski.
Herzog, while making the movie, was just as much of a madman as Mr. Fitzcarraldo was portrayed to be. He actually moved the steamship over the mountain without special effects by using the hired help of the Peruvian Indians. Crazy.... but anyhow, thats where the name comes from.
In the meantime, the boat is called "breaking news". We aren't going to pull it out of the water to repaint it until the end of summer, so in the meantime we need a way to have the name on the back changed. We decided to buy a board and have me carve "The Fitzcarraldo" into it. Mind you, my woodworking skills are infantile at best. It has, however come out pretty decent in the meantime.
This was me working on it in the very beginning:
I know it sure doesn't look like much there, but its come a long ways since then.
Anyhow, we can hang that off the back of the boat for now and it will cover the old name for the summer. It is just a cheap pine board (so that its easy for me to carve) so it'll pry rot to pieces by the end of summer anyhow. But thats fine. We'll paint it on then anyhow.
btw, Jenny promises to post something soon too...
3 comments:
Found your blog, and I am hoping to go the same route as you - did a little sailing as a kid but now that I am a "professional" I want to try it again. But my biggest problem seems to be getting a slip with as a liveaboard. I live and work in DC - and I don't want to commute a long distance. How did you come upon your slip?
When we started calling around to marinas, they all had assumed that we already had a boat. Since the dockage fee is based on the length of the boat, they don't want to have too much to do with you until you've got a boat lined up.
To me, it all felt like we had to do everything all at once, but everything worked out. The people who owned our boat had it docked in a really nice marina in Boston. We weren't planning on keeping it there, but they talked to the owner of the marina who said they had a slip for us if we wanted it.
We've been told that marinas really like hearing that you'll be living aboard full time, because that means they'll be getting money from you in the winters...so I'm sure that helped us too.
Really, it didn't seem that hard for us. We've heard horror stories about being on a waiting list for years before being able to get a slip, but they all seem like "friend of a friend of a friend" stories, and when it comes down to it, people we have talked to haven't had any problems getting into a marina.
-Jenny
Came from the livingaboard forum to tell you I like the boat name. I'm a big fan of Herzog, not since Grizzlyman, but since Fitzcarraldo, one of my favorite movies for a long time. If you take the boat to Lake Tahoe some day, don't drag it over the mountain, use a trailer. Enjoy it!
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