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- [Sailor] Hey, said you got all that back on the one side there. Well, put a man on there.
- If it's a good breeze or wind, it'll be three times around. But this will be decided at the starting line. If it will be three times around, there will be no flag at the masthead of the committee boat. If an American flag is displayed from the masthead of the committee boat, the course will be twice around. If it's more than once around, you do not have to pass through the starting line when you come the second time around.
- [Speaker] You got to come around this buoy, though, everytime.
- [Official] Oh, yeah, under all conditions.
- Okay, so where we're started at, is it going to be the same place?
- [Official] It's gonna be a little bit more deeper water.
- I hope so.
- [Sailor] Hold it. Hold it! Flag it down two inches.
- [Sailor] Round about.
- [Crewmember] You'll be okay.
- About 30 seconds, Cap.
- Go for it. You're perfect. Just sail right for the mark.
- Beautiful start. Beautiful. Okay, yeah. Now keep off with this-
- [Crewmember] We ain't catchin' no reefs! We ain't catchin' no reefs. What are you scared of? It ain't blowin' nothin' yet.
- [Crewmember] You're right there.
- [Speaker] Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
- It's great out here! Gun. There ya are. Go for it, Captain.
- [Sailor] Well, we're walkin' away from 'em, Captain.
- [Captain] Yeah, there comes one of 'em walkin' here with us, damn. Son, is anybody up on this water?
- [Sailor] We go around that marker up close, we'll have 'em.
- [Captain] Now look, all hands go forward and set up on the hatch, except the two men back here with me.
- [Sailor] This thing comes alive with these tails. It's not like a motor.
- To leave.
- Just like somethin' alive. I guess that's the reason you get attached to the thing. When you get a boat, you find out its habits. See, this little, this boat, I know just about what she'll do and every breeze I know just what's the tack say. And then you get to love it.
- Pull the rope around! Clear your jib out! Yeah, hurry up now before we lose the race. Come on!
- All right, come back here, Jay. Pull that ass off.
- [Film Crew Member] Boy, she was really hoppin' there for a second, wasn't she?
- Yeah, all week I-
- So, I like it.
- Okay, back to the lighthouse now.
- I think you're right, yeah. I think the sail's okay. Hey, man, I believe it's all right, Bob. Hold it, Bob!
- I'mma get in it!
- [Captain] How is it? Over there?
- It's fine!
- We've done it now.
- There it is. Congratulations, Captain.
- Our race.
- Nice race.
- You're welcome.
- [Crewmember] Nice race!
- Raise the jib.
- [Sailor] We need to raise it now.
- Get a victory smile now. All right. Well.
- [Sailor] More water now, watch it. Pull.
- Somebody had to win, someone had to lose. It's not bad, winnin', now, is it?
- [Observer] No!
- That's it.
- [Observer] Very good job, Captain! Beautiful.
- [Captain] We leave home on a Sunday night. We have a service to us, to we all. Most of these people here are religious people. They'll go to church. Of course not these youngsters. You'll find that it's a little different, but the older older folk, and we'll leave after the church service and come on up. We'll start out Monday mornin', 'bout four o'clock, and we'll quit before Friday evenin'.
- That gets us home about-
- Eight o'clock. So we just have the weekend, home all the winter. That's 1st of November-
- What rig's supposed to-
- To the last of March. I guess a little older, you get a little older, you won't... You don't wanna leave home. That's the bad part. You like to be home every night, you know. But it's like anything else.
- [Captain] We're born and raised on water and it just gets in your blood, you know?
- And we're forever trying, you know, we'll make ours outdo the other. One day one would beat you going, and then you you'd start workin', then, and find something to make your boat do better, and then doing that. I guess that's why I have a lotta luck in these races. I- I always love to sail a boat. Hey, Elmer! Help him over there.
- He picked those up, didn't he?
- Gotta slip it. ♪ If I work ♪ ♪ Til the close ♪ ♪ Of the day ♪ ♪ I shall see ♪
- Come on now.
- Don't start it. ♪ The great King in His beauty ♪
- [Sailor] You can't beat Henry. The guy is tough.
- ] Don't you get it? ♪ When I've gone ♪ ♪ The last mile ♪ ♪ Of the way ♪ ♪ When I've gone ♪ ♪ The last mile on the way ♪ ♪ I shall rest ♪ ♪ At the close of the day ♪ ♪ I shall see ♪ ♪ The great King ♪ ♪ In His beauty ♪ ♪ When I've gone ♪ ♪ The last mile of the way ♪
- [Group] Amen.
- [Sailor] That's about it.
- I don't want to get you in trouble.
- [Captain] Boy right here has been with me for 18 years. When I started with the boat, he started with me. And the fella that's cookin', he's been with me ever, well, since I hired him about 10, 12 years ago, and the other boy is my son. He's got a lot of foolishness with him, yeah. I guess we were all like that when we're young. What do I call young, huh? ♪ Some glad mornin' ♪ ♪ When this life is over ♪ ♪ I will fly away ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ And it's to my Father's ♪ ♪ House along the shore ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ Oh, I'll fly away ♪ ♪ Oh, I ♪ ♪ Will fly away, oh, glory ♪ ♪ I will fly away ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ Who'll fly away? ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ Well, yes, when I die ♪ ♪ Hallelujah by and by ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪ ♪ I'll fly away ♪
- Okay, boys.
- All right, boys, I'll fly away.
- Oh?
- Yum. Yep, yep, yep.
- Well, our luck, it's your day. It's got a good sound.
- That sounds all right.
- [Sailor] And do y'all want some ?
- [Crew Member] Today, they're wantin' a picture taken.
- Go you in there! It's a big responsibility, one of these boats. Keepin' it... The maintenance, and keeping the men workin'. You see that puts all these men under me now. I've gotta try to not only livin' for myself, but I've got to try to provide for them, too. It's always an adventure, yes. And we'll go to here looking for oysters with every haul if we're lucky. We can't see down on that bottom. We're always looking for the gold mine, I guess you call it. Just like a kid looking for a buried treasure all the time.
- Yeah, my wife's father, so he started about 14 because he was captain then. But the reason that happened be that... Back in them days, there wasn't too much schooling, you know; they, they quit and went to work instead of going to school. I've been oystering 54 years. That's a long time. 'Cause when you start as a young man, say I started when I was 16, and you work up to be 70 and that's just about sure, you lose your nerve on the water and you get old, and you can't get nobody wants to go with you. Think you're too old, you know, for the oysters, and that's the story of it. But I always did love to follow the water because it's practically been my life, you know. My father, my grandfather, and great-grandfather all was handed right down from one generation to the other. Yeah. ♪ Je ♪ ♪ Sus ♪ ♪ Keep me ♪ ♪ Near ♪ ♪ The cross ♪ ♪ There ♪ ♪ A precious ♪ ♪ Fountain ♪ ♪ Free ♪ ♪ To all ♪ ♪ The ♪ ♪ Healing ♪ ♪ Spring ♪ ♪ Flows ♪ ♪ From Calv'ry's ♪ ♪ Mountain ♪
- Oh, wow. Bad luck.
- [Crewmember] Right, pull!
- [Crewmember 2] Oh, watch your hand! What's wrong? What's wrong?
- Here you go, mate.
- There you go.
- [Sailor] Get that!
- Well, that's a long way, it ain't that light. One sheet down... Hoo!
- All right.
- [Sailor] Ahhh. Aha.
- Uh.
- [Crewmember] Boy.
- That's number four. Hey!
- Yeah, it's all right. Well, I'll take it.
- [Sailor] I'll take care of that. While I'm gone, get your lines on straight.
- [Speaker] I don't see why, because-
- Man, she had my boots before I could get in the car.
- If I give you my testimony of how good the Lord has been to me and what he's done for me, it's gonna help you along and help you to realize that the Lord has done the very same thing for you.
- Amen.
- So let's be willing, you know, to be reliably- We're lucky we're reliable, but we've gotta be willing to rely and express ourself before the world that they might say "Jesus Christ," and that's the hope of God. So you pray for us. We've been asked to sing a song we've sang many times: "'Til The Storm Passes By." And you know, this song gets just right down to where I live at. I live and work right on the water. And I have to contend with storms of life, you know. And a lot of times I have to pray these very same words. "Lord, keep me safe 'til the tempest has passed, and the storm is over, that I might make safe the harbor." And you're gonna have the same thing in this life of yours. Or you're gonna have time to have to pray, "Lord, keep me safe 'til the storm passes by." You pray for us. ♪ In the dark ♪ ♪ Of the midnight ♪ ♪ Have I oft ♪ ♪ Hid my face ♪ ♪ While the storm ♪ ♪ Howls above me ♪ ♪ And there's no hiding place ♪ ♪ 'Mid the crash ♪ ♪ Of the thunder ♪ ♪ Precious Lord ♪ ♪ Hear my cry ♪ ♪ "Keep me safe ♪ ♪ 'Til the storm ♪ ♪ Passes by." ♪ ♪ 'Til the storm ♪ ♪ Passes over ♪ ♪ 'Til the thunder ♪ ♪ Sounds no more ♪ ♪ 'Til the clouds ♪ ♪ Roll forever ♪ ♪ From the sky ♪ ♪ Hold me fast ♪ ♪ Let me stand ♪ ♪ In the hollow ♪ ♪ Of Thy hand ♪ ♪ Keep me safe ♪ ♪ 'Til the storm ♪ ♪ Passes by ♪ The reason we're all religious, I'll put it that way, because we can see God in nature by working on the water and things like that, we can... You know, actually, you'll get... You'll say, "How you prove that there's a God?" But it's proved to us by the elements and the things that we... The signs that we get to know what is gonna happen. And we know that it has to be a supreme One with laws that, that governs all that. But city folk grow up with independence and more on their self than they do on the other folk and nature itself.
- On a boat, you can run into more trouble than anything in the world. Little things. It looks so easy. And just as soon as you start doing...
- Yeah.
- Your whole day is gonna be gone. Yes sir.
- Ah. Of course.
- Yeah, you see that.
- I think maybe that's copper. It's yours.
- What day you going over there?
- What day?
- Yeah.
- [Speaker] I wanna... I'll let you know.
- Why don't you go on down south and look for some oysters?
- Yeah, well I would, Walter, but I can, uh.
- Yeah. Well, I already hate that.
- No, when I aim to catch-
- If I do that, uh-
- See, I caught, I caught a hundred bushel on Herschel's job Monday. And the thing about... The market is bad.
- [Speaker] What you going to do with these oysters, Stan?
- [Stan] Give 'em to you, if you want 'em.
- Oh, thank you.
- [Stan] You can have 'em. Herschel's shucked half of 'em.
- Cut that out, or find yourself out of here-
- Well, then you have 'em. All we .
- That... This ain't none of your boat all around here.
- We had it in turn.
- All right, buddy. Get another bucket out of there.
- Oh, I gotta get a bucket for you now, huh? Oh, I'm gonna bring the old bucket back.
- Next thing you'll be asking me to eat 'em.
- There you are.
- Where's that bucket at? Here!
- That's a boy. I don't need your old bucket.
- He's on the ball.
- Bad, hard pass.
- Wish he'd buy a fork.
- Us?
- [Sailor] What's wrong with that one?
- [Speaker] Huh?
- See, nothing wrong with that.
- Oh, you just throwin' it away. Oh.
- Mm-hmm. Oh wow.
- Yeah. ♪ Of Christ ♪ ♪ Him who died for me ♪ ♪ She said, child ♪ ♪ Trust in Jesus ♪ ♪ His grace ♪ ♪ Will set you free ♪ ♪ Seek the old ♪ ♪ Time religion ♪ ♪ For 'tis good ♪ ♪ Enough ♪ You weren't playing. Get me, daddy.
- We're not gonna do catching. Catching what matters, daddy.
- Yeah, but somebody's life's at stake. You never do catch, you never do it right. It's-
- Look, when nobody's life's at stake, we'll sail this sucker. ♪ I have tasted this ♪ ♪ Pure fountain ♪ ♪ Am saved ♪ ♪ Forevermore ♪ ♪ And whene'er I think ♪ ♪ Of Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, His love ♪ ♪ Will set me free ♪ ♪ Time religion ♪
- Oh, yeah.
- Come on, now, man. You're dropping. Please, lemme get over there with you? ♪ Together ♪ ♪ Again ♪ ♪ My tears have stopped falling ♪ ♪ The long, lonely nights ♪ ♪ Are now at an end ♪ ♪ The key to my heart ♪ ♪ You hold in your hand ♪ ♪ And nothing else matters ♪ ♪ We're together again ♪ ♪ How many times, boy ♪ ♪ Have I ever heard someone say ♪ ♪ If I had his money ♪ ♪ I would do things ♪ ♪ His way ♪ ♪ My way ♪ ♪ But suddenly, it happened ♪ ♪ I lost every dime ♪ ♪ Now that I'm richer ♪ ♪ By far ♪ ♪ With a satisfied mind ♪
- [Person In Car] Now, tell them goodbye.
- When I grew up, all this land here, and all down here, we've, we used to tend it. Uh, dropped a many grain of corn, you know. And, now they have corn planters, actually, that... But I'd go along with some colored fellows and hit hard here. Dropping corn all day long, planting sweet potato plants, digging them in the fall, all that kind of stuff. And no, not no machinery much. Horse and plow. Oh yeah, yeah. We had a good time. Never had much money. If I wanted a nickel or a dime I just went and sawed a little wood for the neighbors to get that. But we loved to do it. You know, wasn't nothing else to do. Wasn't no automobiles to get off the island. You went, you had to go on a boat or horse and buggy. We'd take... Oh, well, we had to get a full day with the horse and buggy. The roads were nothing but marsh roads up here and sometime impassable. Everybody had their family plot then. You know. Nowadays, people don't believe much anymore. But Most of us people, down this end especially, we do. I say most of them. I believe they believe, uh, not most of 'em go to church, but most of 'em believe that there is a, a life after death. Everybody wants to get to the moon now. Okay, Stan, strike him out.
- [Crowd Member] Hey! Way to go!
- [Crowd Member] Come on, Stan.
- [Crowd Member] The other two going on?
- [Umpire] Two at base.
- [Crowd Member] Come on, boy! Get him outta there!
- [Crowd Member] Let's go, Jack.
- All right.
- [Crowd Member] What're you doing, begging for hits?
- She's here-
- Start something off.
- Here.
- Yes!
- Go, go, go-
- Get it!
- Go, go, go-
- Get it, get it!
- Oh, you're there!
- There you go!
- [Crowd Member] Thatta way to go!
- [Person In Crowd] That was a really good play, there.
- [Player] All right, take a minute, then. Two out. Hurrah!
- [Crowd Member] Way to go, boy!
- Peter! Peter.
- Michael!
- They're counting on you, boy!
- [Crowd Member] Michael.
- [Player] Don't know nothing about-
- [Crowd Member] All right, you boys, turn it outta there-
- Get us out of-
- But I believe you will.
- Hey, they're playing.
- [Official] Play ball!
- Take two, Greg, get in there.
- Good eye, Mike.
- Nice one, baby.
- You got the-
- Yeah! Go on!
- Run, run, run!
- One on!
- Come on, Tommy.
- [Crowd Member] Okay, Tommy, score this run.
- Hurry and get on that base!
- Come on-
- [Crowd Member] Come on and get it! That's-
- Hey, man.
- Come on, son.
- [Crowd Member] Yeah, you've got it!
- Come on-
- [Crowd Member] Oh my God!
- [Crowd Member] No, sir! No!
- He's home now. But usually it's just on Friday. Friday night 'til Sunday night. He calls every night. I dunno when you get used to it. I dunno, I don't particularly like it, but there's not much I can do about it. I worry a lot.
- I always fear he's gonna fall overboard or get lost or something like that. But I guess you just get used to that, too. Here. Look at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't think they get married too young. Well, I guess they do. But I don't know everybody. I always, always did. I was always around, got married young. Just didn't seem strange-
- Hello.
- To me.
- Feel like an old maid if you get about 20 and you're not married.
- 'Cause most folk around here are married but I- The children, usually. It's true. I guess maybe they grow up faster. They have, I guess, a harder life.
- And they learn quicker. Ten.
- Benny, don't come in here. Turn the lights off.
- [Customer] No matter what.
- I'll take the crackers-
- You scared me, but-
- Coke. Take down mine.
- Very important.
- [Crowd Member] Oh. Oh. Again, Sam?
- Yeah.
- Bag of burning-
- I've got to all them old- Now you take what you got, and that'll make him do it.
- Make money.
- 'Cause that, Ada's husband, who works for John. And he can't quit him if he spends enough money.
- He's one of them old, old timers, apparently.
- I'm looking for a nice woman.
- Roland.
- What was that?
- I need a wife now. I lost my wife and I need a wife. In back of-
- [Crowd Member] I got one, and we'll get it.
- [Crowd Member] Isn't that cold?
- I just lost my wife about a week ago. Two weeks ago, last Sunday. It was a week last Sunday. Been with her 52 years.
- Hey, son. Hey, where you going today? What're you doing?
- Got your gasoline can?
- Better get it.
- I don't know where to go.
- Going out this morning.
- My father took me out of fourth grade and put me out there and learned me how to do it. As far in school as I went, fourth grade. And I've been out there ever since. He had to do it; he had a big family of his own and I had to help. Help feed the whole gang, you know. But it's a life after you get into it. You, I don't care what you do. You can go away in the cities. I've been to cities and had all kinds of jobs, and factories, and shipyards, and tugboating. I've done all that in my life. But didn't stay there long. About 10 days, two weeks. That was my limit. Couldn't stand it. Didn't want to be in the city. Wanna come right back here again. It's something that you get into that you learn to love, and you, you're your own boss and your freedom. It's, that's what it is. Nobody to holler at you and tell you when you gotta go, when you gotta come home and all that. You know, no certain hour. And that's why a waterman loves the water. Wants to be his own boss. And that's where this had to have been.
- Down there.
- Are you going to work?
- Hey, if I was-
- Gonna head that way. I don't know how far we're gonna get. Come on.
- [Crowd Member] All right.
- Well, we go, we got a big day at the office. We better get going.
- [Captain] Well, we have two days that'll be... That's on a Monday and on a Tuesday, of each week we're allowed to use this power, and they have a limit. We're only allowed 125 bushels those two days, each day. By having the power to push you, you're sure of a day's work. Without the power, we get sometime a half a day and sometimes no day, sometimes part of a day. But with this power we can concentrate on every day we're going to have. We're going to make some kind of a catch.
- If we didn't have these two days a week, we would have to tie our boats up. That's positively. Couldn't make it to save our life. Last week we caught 29 bushels, oysters out from Monday, Tuesday. That's all we caught. And Monday, Tuesday we averaged a hundred a day. So you can see the difference. You know what it would mean. No, we just can't make it off a sail to save your life. Of course, I got two boys aboard here. My brother-in-law and a nephew. But, if you know what I mean, if you don't make a hundred dollars a week, now, with that expense, you can't live. It's all destroyed. Because everybody is... The saying is, "he's got automobiles." And, of course, it takes a lot to keep a car a-going. And, uh... That's the story of it. Radio station ad in background Yes, increase your vaporizer's relief. In a hospital test, VapoSteam medication was shown- Right. Radio ads - Hurry, get it on. Sweet young lady-
- It's for a skipjack. Mainsail for a skipjack. It's for the "Howard". Captain Stan Daniels. The business has been here since before the Civil War. My grandfather worked with Captain Stubbs. Then he bought him out. He come over here during the Civil War 'cause things were too quiet in England. He come over to get in the war.
- [Sailmaker] After the war, he stayed here. Well, I started with my father when I was about 12 years old, I guess. When I wasn't in school. I've been here ever since. I got two sons, but they're not interested in sail making. I guess I'm the last.
- Who brought you your big tractor? Tell 'em. Son, tell them-
- Santy Claus.
- Aww, is that who brought it to you? They leave on Sunday nights and come back Friday night. But it's hard. Some weeks, they don't make any money, and some they do. Whatever the weather's doing. How do I feel? Lonely, most of the time. Well, I clean and do my washing and ironing. Picking up after Eddie the rest of the day. Most of the time he keeps me busy. I like to watch television a lot.
- Church, down there with it. Again, but no try.
- I'm having trouble. Last winter I got so bored I had to have something to do. So I decided to have a baby. You want it, don't you? You're asking me what happens on Thursday? Mm, little bit of everything. Go uptown. And well, we get our groceries last. Mm. And, well, we eat. Just shop around. Waste the day. Here you are. Come over here and walk to it. Go ahead. There was only four girls in our class that graduated. Two of 'em went to school, the other two got married. And I wanted to go to beauty school. Talked me out of it. No, not really. I wanted to get married and I couldn't do both. So I had to make a choice. It's lonely with him gone, but she'll keep you busy. Get over here. Here. Hold this. We're back. We're back again.
- [Townsperson] Well, we have more. I mean we're, we have more of them modern conveniences. 'Cause when I was growing up, my chores of, even when it come to school, we'd fill the wood box up, feed the chickens. Then we'd have a pig in the pen. We'd have to, tend to get straw for him. And, uh, the pig... Or milk the cow in the mornings, and them kind of things, but all that's gone. No more chickens in the poultry yard. No more wood in the box. You've got modern heat and no more cow to milk. The milk man comes around, and it's like you said, that's all. The big city's come into the country, as far as the modern convenience is concerned. I think the women are always the benefactor, don't you, then? They do the marketing now. After shopping there and everything, they'll go to town once a week. Sometime twice. But, I guess I was gonna say, our work is still the same aboard an oyster boat. Still the same job. We've never found anything to take that yet.
- The tong and the dredge operation, such as it is today, is most inefficient and will probably, uh, won't improve because it's more difficult every year to get people to work with their hands and their strong backs and this is what they're doing. And after a while, you just run out of people that will do this. The young people are not going in the oyster business. The older people are still in it. But the young people, they're looking for an easier way to do the job. But in due time I think that we will talk. We will try to get the most out of a given area of bottom on the optimum use, and therefore, they will have to resort to a lease bottom operation, whereby the fellow has ownership in the land he works. Leasing is the great scare in the area, because most of them feel as if big money interest would control most of the bottoms. And perhaps they're right, however, the gross product would increase many, many times. But they're still in the hunting stage here. They're the last of the hunters in America. The buffalo hunters. They quit that long ago.
- That's one thing the waterman, they're dead set against. It's private planning. When we get private planners, say, then we get big business and that cuts out our free enterprise. You see him doing? See, if I would, if I was to, say, take up whatever acreage they would allow me for a part of... Grow oysters on my own, then I would have to. I would have to have a watchman, and I would have to have labor for the... And then, on top of all that, when it comes to harvestin' the oysters and sell 'em, I'd still have to depend on demand. Well, they run the market. But the big packer, I'd had to depend on him for selling so he could give me what he wanted. And I, first thing, you know, my land would be gone. He'd take it over, which is eventually what's gonna happen. That's a bleak picture I'm giving, but that's actually what's gonna happen to the water, betcha.
- Long as we can keep this in the public's high ends, that's seafood enterprises, then we will do well. But when...
- There's nobody taking-
- Just a few people, Cap will getcha to open-
- Up the outside.
- Every time. We're gonna be out of business.
- The oystermen are not kicking on what they're doing. They're very, very well satisfied what they're doing. And they, if they would leave us alone, we would be all right. We're not kicking on anything that we're doing. We're doing all right crabing and doing all right oystering and doing all right anything we do in the water business. But them people come in here and try to tell us what to do. What they want, a piece of our money that we're making. They want to monopolize these oyster bars and, and so they can lease 'em out, and get us on a deck with this guy working for $2 a day for them. That's, that's what they'd like to have. Put us down like the poor old coal miners who were once living on the side of a mountain on three or four poles and an old shack stuck on it. That's the way they want to get us. They act to me like that. I don't know. But if they leave us alone, we're doing all right. Doing very well. We're all very well satisfied. Ain't nobody growling around here about what we're doing. We go out when we want to and come in, like I told you a while ago. Go out and come in when we want to, and run our own business. But they won't leave us alone. And some guy, some crackpot, will come in and want a piece of it and try to take it away from us. Monopolize the whole work.
- We used to have hundreds and hundreds of boats out there that we used to be working, when I was a boy around 15. But now the, the owners is dead. Captains is dead, the boat fellers is dead, and everything else. And only, uh a few years that... I really don't believe it'll... There'll be over 15 or 20 boats are working. 'Cause the old people dying out, you know. And like I said, the young people don't want to do it.
- Weigh.
- Well I guess you, you could work down there if you weren't froze in.
- [Sailor] Yeah, I say down there, it-
- I imagine it's all up in there, it's froze hard enough to walk across there too.
- Two weeks. This is two weeks we laid out. This is going on third week. The week we wasn't laid out, we never made nothing. We only got two days that week. Monday and Tuesday.
- Well, you know, he's way nice.
- I believe Gary used- right on across there. That's a big beach now.
- Nobody really thought that that day that I was pushing across there, that Tuesday, that it was going to do this. I wouldn't believe nobody in the world, it was going to do it. Only the Lord, if He said we were going to have a freeze up. I'd believe Him, but I just think a man didn't know enough, you know, about what was going to happen to it. So it freezed up.
- [Sailor] I don't care, move over.
- I don't think it's-
- Whoo!
- Gonna be much. I think it's slowly going down. ...Do all the kids feel similar?
- I feel similar.
- Yeah?
- [Film Crewmember] You don't like it at all,
- I just don't like it.
- I don't like it.
- Wanna leave, Tillman?
- I don't know. I'll be retired for a part-time job. But outside that I don't do this.
- Well, if you went out here every day, you'd break your back. If you got an education, you can get a good job. Don't have to work at it.
- No, no. I'll say... A lot of 'em that are not gonna fool with the water business, They're young They just don't like it. You know what I mean? In other words, they got a chance for advancement at a different job. More than I had when I was a young boy. I had to do it.
- You going to spend your life here?
- Probably.
- [Speaker] You wanna marry a waterman?
- No, I'm not. I don't know if I love him. Probably will.
- [Film Crew Member] Do you feel the same way? You gonna stay here?
- No, I'm not gonna; I don't think I'm gonna stay here. I'm gonna go to school and, you know, move away.
- What'd you say?
- [Film Crew Member] Why you gonna leave?
- I don't know. Because, I don't know. I don't want, I just don't wanna stay here.
- I'd like to go to school too, but when I came back, I'd still like to live here. 'Cause, you know, I'm used to it.
- [Person Leaving] There's one right here.
- [High School Students Chattering]
- There's three things I would like to speak to you now upon in regards to Jesus. You're living in a very dynamic age. Men are going to the moon, at least heading that way. And if God tarries, I believe they'll get there. You're living in an age of revolution, when the old ideologies are falling apart and new are rising. It's a dynamic age. But I point to one who is even more dynamic than all the scientists, all the learned men, all the world. And this one is Jesus Christ. Because when Jesus Christ came into the life of Peter, he changed him from a rough, crude, rude fisherman that it was uneducated, unlearned, into a man that was filled with the Holy Spirit. And his life was completely taken over. A dynamic change.
- [Crowd Member] I feel pretty good.
- [Crowd Member] If I saw, you know? He won first place.
- We thank all of our dedicated teachers who have given us careful training that has made us an asset in today's world. An education is a vital ingredient needed for the eventual success of any individual. Few, indeed, are the members of this graduating class who have taken the time to make a careful appraisal of the real and lasting values of life.
- We sought after the wrong things. All the cries has been is education and the world is full of education, but they've never come to the knowledge of the truth. That's why we're in such a turmoil machine age. See, education bought everything we, all the knowledge has bought all the modern machine age and everything. That's what brought it on. But what good has it really done us? I mean, when we look back at the morals of people, and the whole civilization in general. And what we don't realize is this: we as individuals get caught up in that thing. We don't, we don't like to acknowledge it, but we do. We get caught right up in the, in the rush of the times and we, we find ourselves without consideration for one another, and just going buy the suit and satisfy our own ends. And we have suffered for it.
- Now zoom in on Sylvia. (TV show preparing for segment on Skip Jack race Good. Hold it, Mike. What the hell is that? Okay, that's good enough. And soon as you break from that-
- Yeah.
- You get the prizes. We sell the, we sell the, we have the giveaway-
- Hold on a minute, now. We might change-
- And then we, uh. Do the interview. Okay?
- Yeah, I'm Sylvia Scott. And this is-
- Sylvia Scott, Captain Art Daniels, Sr.
- You have to, you have to-
- This is him.
- Hello.
- Mr. Daniels, you have to forgive me. I, I did a stupid thing. I was steaming lobsters and-
- Oh.
- And I got a terrible steam burn and I never knew it could be so bad.
- Art Junior.
- Hi, how are you?
- This is, this is Junior here.
- Good.
- This is-
- This is?
- That's his son.
- Oh, this is the third. Oh and this is, this is the gentleman that won last year.
- Yes, that's right.
- Yes.
- Very good.
- And there's...
- This is my wife.
- How do you do? So good of you to come too. Please sit down, can you all?
- I thought if you need it for a background with, uh...
- [Sylvia] Well, I'll tell you Mr. Evans, we don't usually use that when we have the people live, because they keep talking about the dates and the times and the events and so forth. How's your arthritis gonna be for the race?
- Well, I don't think you need, might be cold weather.
- Ahh. I thought maybe you were like a golfer. You know, it never rains on the golf course. Your arthritis doesn't bother you out on the water. No?
- [Announcer] New Diet Imperial.
- Well, oh.
- Diet Imperial things never go to your waist.
- [Announcer] Welcome to "The Woman's Day", with Sylvia Scott.
- What a delightful pleasure for us today, because our guests all come from Winona, Maryland. And I'll start immediately to my left to introduce you. For those of you that went to the Skipjack races last year, you'll know the winner in one Captain Art Daniels, Jr., and Art, it's so good to have you here.
- Thank you. Sitting beside Mr. Daniels, we have another Mr. Daniels. He's Captain Stanley Daniels, and Stanley, it's wonderful to have you.
- Thank you.
- And there is another Daniels in the Daniel family that's with us today. This is Captain Art Daniels, Senior. And Captain, it's good to have you.
- Thank you.
- And I don't know whether you realized it or not, but I didn't until I had read up on it, that the skipjacks in this particular area are the only sail commercial fleet in North America. Let's go back to Art if we can for just a moment. Art Junior, that is. And find out about these races. About how many boats are gonna be in this year's race?
- Well, we have 35 that're supposed to be, but we figured on at least 20.
- Now when we talk about the skipjacks, we're actually talking about commercial boats that work pretty much all season round.
- That's right.
- Stanley, what about the boat that you work with?
- Well, my boat's name's the "Howard"-
- Uh-huh.
- And she's a little smaller'n his boat.
- [Sylvia] Uh-huh, are they gonna divide them into more than one class?
- [Art] Yes ma'am, it'll be... The larger boats will be in the first class, and then there'll be the smaller boats in second class.
- We want to move over and talk to Captain Daniels, Sr., and also have a closer look at the skap, skipjack and hear more of the details. And we'll do all of that in just one minute.
- [TV Announcer] Why are these new Vienna sausages so hard to get out of their can?
- Let's go back in history just a little bit. How old are the skipjacks, Mr. Daniels? How long have they been in this region and where did they come from?
- Well, I, I expect back... The first skipjacks, I expect, would be 75 or 80 year ago.
- In other words, then they'd be pretty-
- I just, the last one I was captain of would've been around, let's see, it would've been around '65 now.
- Now we're looking at a skipjack here. How about some of the important parts? What about the two sails on the skipjack?
- Well... This is a jib.
- Mm-hmm.
- We call this the head.
- All right.
- And this winder, this is what we call the gasoline winder. This is the motor.
- Uh-huh.
- Yes.
- You, sir, I understand, are gonna probably be on one or the other of the boys' boat?
- [Art] Well, I don't know. Maybe I'll be up able to be up to it; I don't know.
- Of course he will. And as a matter of fact, from Winona, they brought a long range weather forecast. Don't hold me to it, but it's supposed to be a beautiful weekend with those 15 mile an hour winds. And, of course, all of this is for the beautiful trophies, and we'll show you that in just a moment. Before we show you the trophies, and apart from our skipjack conversation and things to do over the weekend, I'd like to take a minute and talk about something that has to be done every day. And I'd like to have you do it with my favorite product, because you'll find the job is much easier. The job I'm talking about that has to be done every day is washing up the dishes. My favorite product that I'd like to talk about is Thrill, from Proctor and Gamble. You know, the interesting thing about Thrill is, when it was developed a number of years ago, homemakers like you and I participated in tests, washing dishes with unlabeled dishwashing detergents. And then, periodically, professional dermatologists checked the conditions of their hands and it was found that, those that were using Thrill, their hands were softer and the detergent was milder. And it's probably because, you'll notice on the label of Thrill, it contains glycerol, which does make it milder. So the next time that you go shopping, look for the bottle of detergent that looks like a lotion. And it's mildness keeps your hands looking lovelier. And, of course, we can't escape doing the dishes, but you can use Thrill. And thank you all for coming up from Winona to give us just a small insight. And, of course, if you join us again tomorrow, we're having visitors from the Moscow service that I think you'll enjoy very much. Take care of yourselves, whatever you do. See you again tomorrow morning. Bye.
- Very nice, gentlemen. I know that you're all crying if you're as warm as I am. Captain Daniels, that was wonderful.
- Yeah.
- That was a very good pointing. May you each come home with a trophy.
- Tie her down, now.
- Yeah, it's going. Nine minutes to the start.
- Nine minutes.
- 10 minutes to the start.
- 10 minutes.
- 10 minutes to the start.
- See, it took me all morning to pick up my family. Hey.
- I can't go unless she's flying.
- Yeah.
- Are you really enjoying yourself? Enjoyin' yourself?
- They're fine.
- Lee?
- lee, I might be lawyered up.
- When?
- We'll you yet.
- Who?
- You!
- No, I didn't; I got mine done for nothing.
- [Passenger] Yeah, uh-huh.
- [Official] One minute to start. One minute.
- Hold a minute!
- No, uh-
- Push the roll around, Paul. 45 seconds. 45 seconds.
- What's back, boy-
- Ahoy.
- Back at your boat, Clyde.
- Push her around.
- Push her 'round, Clyde.
- [Crewmember] All right, all right, all right.
- Put a jib to wind.
- Let's listen-
- Go with the winder.
- I'm all right.
- Hold her fine.
- Pull it out, boy. Quarter out, that's all right, Clyde. Put away. She's all right. Just hold it up there, Clyde. Hold it up there, Clyde. Just push me right around.
- My land.
- [Crewmember] Hey, Sylvia, that you on there? Looks like a good start. Well, then give up your flag!
- Hey, get in there, you can't- Yeah, I'm going around.
- [Crewmember] Ah, that all she'll do? Let her go right to win there. Left, I won't let her left now.
- Come here, .
- Say you pull your jib in just a little bit.
- All right. ♪ I once was lost in sin ♪ ♪ Then Jesus took me in ♪ ♪ And then a light from heaven ♪ ♪ Filled my soul ♪ ♪ I go to Him in prayer ♪ ♪ He is my every thing ♪ ♪ And just a li'l talk with Jesus makes it right ♪ ♪ All right ♪ ♪ Oh, let us ♪ ♪ Have a little talk with Jesus. ♪ ♪ Let us tell Him all about our troubles ♪ ♪ He will hear our faintest cry ♪ ♪ And we will ♪ ♪ Answer by and by ♪ ♪ Oh, when you feel that ♪ ♪ Prayer wheel turning ♪ ♪ And you know a little fire is burning ♪ ♪ Are you? ♪ ♪ Have a little talk with Jesus makes it right ♪ ♪ All right ♪
