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Our first time on the ships! We used the old Black Sails ships, sets and many of their awesome crew in Cape Town. We had heard of stories of other productions where the cast/crew would get seasick while shooting on the ships as they were rocked back and forth, but fortunately, our cast/crew seemed to survive just fine (maybe Willoughby performed acupuncture on them?)! Huge thanks to Luke Schelhaas who was the on-set writer/producer and David Moore, our director.

One of the biggest production challenges of this (very long) scene was matching the wind. In Scotland, they say if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes. In Cape Town, the sun was almost always shining, but the wind would come up and die down multiple times a shot. So, some parts of the scene may look like they’re in a gale, and others look like the doldrums (which we’ll get to later!). Any shot with a flag (on a vessel, an ensign) was especially tricky