Morning Light

Morning Light is a 2008 film directed by Mark Monroe and executive produced by Roy E. Disney. The film was released on October 17, 2008 by Walt Disney Pictures. The film chronicles a real-life crew training and competing in the 44th Transpacific Yacht Race aboard a TP52 class sailing yacht, Morning Light.

Plot

Morning Light is a documentary that follows the youngest crew (by average age) to compete in the Transpac. All crew members were between 18 and 23 at the time. The film follows the formation of the Morning Light sailing team, their six months of training in advance of the yacht race, and finally the weeklong Los Angeles to Honolulu race itself.

The crew numbered 15 young sailors of varied experience: Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark, Charlie Enright, Jesse Fielding, Robbie Kane, Steve Manson, Chris Schubert, Kate Theisen, Mark Towill (at 18, the youngest crew member), Genny Tulloch, navigator Piet van Os, Chris Welch, Kit Will and the 21-year-old skipper, Jeremy Wilmot.

Morning Light (Sparkadia song)

"Morning Light" is the fourth single released from Sparkadia's debut album Postcards. It was on high rotation on Australian radio program 'Triple J' in 2007, but was scrapped from being released as the debut single. Three versions of the single exist, they are the 'Album Version', 'Radio Version' and 'Video Version'. The single was never released physically, but because of the recent release in Australia it is yet to be confirmed if any further promotion will proceed with the release.

Tracklist

Promo CD

Music video

The video was shot by Sam Bryant, who previously shot the video for "Jealousy". In the video features a man lying down with the camera taking the images that flow with the video i.e The video is a collage of images made into a video. In the video features the band members playing around, a stuffed dog playing around and plenty of cows too.

References

Morning Light (ship)

Morning Light was a wooden sailing ship. Her size was 265.3’ by 44.1’ by 21.1’. Launched in 1856, she weighed 2377 tons. She was registered at Saint John, New Brunswick until 1867. She was made of tamarack, oak, birch and pitch pine. Her last voyage was in 1889. She was wrecked and abandoned. Her last known cargo was iron and oil.

History

The brothers William and Richard Wright built Morning Light of tamarack, oak, birch and pitch pine. They were a team of shipbuilders and businessmen who built an average of almost two vessels per year over the course of 16 years.Morning Light was the last one they constructed. Slightly larger than their penultimate ship White Star, Morning Light was the largest vessel in British North America when she was built in 1855. The ship was launched from Wilmot, Nova Scotia in 1856. Morning Light was mostly used by merchants transporting goods between St. John, New Brunswick and Liverpool, England. As with many ships, she had many different owners such as Jacob Valentine Troop and William Thomson and Jacob Fritz. Jacob V. Troop was one of the most important men in the shipbuilding industry in the 1800s and he owned many vessels, which he used to run his business. The builder of Morning Light was unknown in Canada because from July 1855, registers did not mention the name of the builders of the vessels in New Brunswick. However, Lloyd's of London had appointed inspectors to survey vessels being built in New Brunswick in 1851.Morning Light remained on the Saint John register until 1867, when her registration was transferred to Liverpool, England. From there she was sold to a German company in 1881 and her name changed to J.W. Wendt. On February 21, 1889, she left Bremen, Germany for New York City carrying iron and oil. A month later she was found ashore three miles north of Barnegat, New Jersey. She had been stranded and wrecked in a gale.