The trailer is launched!

Posted on Monday, October 10th, 2011 by admin

We've launched the trailer for Charlotte! Please send the link charlottethefilm.com/trailer to anybody and everyone you feel might be interested in the film.If you have any comments on the trailer, send me an email - I always appreciate your feedback.

You can view the entire film here, courtesy of SnagFilms. Though I am very happy that we are able to stream it for free, this version is low resolution and has commercials. The DVD will be out around December 1st, and will offer a superior viewing experience and come packed with Extras.

Enjoy!

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Craft is the act of attention with which the craftsman brings his body rhythm to the manipulable materials of his choice. The object of craft sustains the reality of human rhythms and being. This is the essential nature of the pure object, its function and art, in its true and---in a world accelerated past the body-beat---most contemporary sense.

- Rose Slivka in "The Persistent Object"

CHARLOTTE is a film about the extraordinary boatyard, the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin established the boatyard in 1980 with the purpose of designing, building, and maintaining traditionally built wooden boats, and in the process they transformed Vineyard Haven harbor into a mecca for wooden boat owners and enthusiasts. After a long career of designing and constructing boats for others, Nat embarks on building a 50 foot gaff rigged schooner for use by his family and friends — her name is Charlotte. Through close observation of the everyday activities of the boatyard, the film emerges as a meditation on tradition, craftsmanship, family, community, our relationship to nature, and the love of the sea..

Charlotte: A Wooden Boat Story