Alizé Jireh
The film Women & the Wind traces the voyage of three women across the Atlantic in a James Wharram–designed catamaran.
Women & the Wind, directed by Alizé Jireh.
www.womenandthewind.com. 1:38 running time.
Rent for $6.99; buy for $14.99.
Take three women. One has recently taught herself to sail. The second sailed with her parents as a child. The third has only ever been on a boat once in her life. Put them on a 50-year-old home-built Wharram catamaran and ask them to sail across the North Atlantic. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, doesn’t it?
In many ways, the voyage described in the film Women & the Wind feels like an accident waiting to happen. The crew is inexperienced, there is no safety equipment to speak of, the boat is in questionable condition, and the rig…well…let us just say that the boom is made from a long, spindly tree trunk, bark and all.