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Building a boat and sailing the world’s
oceans was a dream Paul and I shared since high school. We’d always
loved the water and boats and, during our years at school, graduated
from outback canoe tripping, to dinghy sailing, to keel boats,
chartering in the Caribbean and North Channel, and club racing. Every
time we were aboard a boat we were thinking, “Is this a boat we could
cruise on, live aboard, cross an ocean with ?”
Just before my 27th birthday in 1986, we took delivery of the bare hull and deck of our Classic 37 sloop, Two-Step. When the truck brought her into the yard at Port Credit Yacht Club and we saw that big empty hull, we thought, “What have we got ourselves into?!!!” But the commitment had been made and with
a page of plans and a lot of determination, we set to work smelting lead
for the keel, laying the cabin sole, constructing the interior,
installing the wiring, plumbing and engine system, adding the rigging -
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For the next two years, we spent every night and every weekend, summer and winter, working on our beautiful boat, dreaming about the adventures we would have together. We launched on August 16, 1988 (she floated beautifully thank goodness!) and we sailed her for two summers on Lake Ontario preparing for a one-year sabbatical to the Bahamas.
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September 21, 1989, my 30th birthday, (and the day Hurricane Hugo hit
Charleston, SC), we headed south via the Erie Canal and Intracoastal
Waterway. Our one year sabbatical to the Bahamas stretched into a 3-year
Atlantic Circle and we returned to Canada in August 1992, where we sold
our first documentary, Call of the Ocean, to the Discovery Channel. That
got the ball rolling and our next production was a 13-part series called
Exploring Under Sail, which we co-produced with Peter Rowe Productions.
We received a Gold Award for Best Sailing/Watersport Documentary at the
Charleston Film Festival and a Silver Award at Worldfest Flagstaff for
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| Now Shard Multimedia is producing another travel adventure sailing series for television called Distant Shores, as well as a continuing series of cruising videos for sailors (Cruising the Bahamas, Transatlantic Crossing). Our studio has recently branched out into online video and interactive media production. | ||
Because of our reputation for marine and nature
photography, we are often hired by other producers and cinematographers
to shoot, write, edit and or do water effects and stunt work. |
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Stunt performer, Sheryl Shard, on the set of "Saltwater Moose" with actor Timothy Dalton |
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Now Shard Multimedia is producing another travel adventure sailing series
for television called Distant Shores (link to Distant Shores page) which
is also available on DVD. Click here for info and to
order. Since the completion of our first Atlantic Circle in 1992, we’ve been cruising for several months each year - a few winters in the Bahamas, summers in the Chesapeake Bay, back across the Atlantic Ocean to the Azores in 1997, mainland Portugal in 1998; Gibraltar, North Africa and South Spain in 1999; and since then we've been sailing to countries bordering the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean Seas. Subscribe to our email list and we’ll send you updates from our voyage and tell you when there’s new stuff posted on our website. We’re usually back in Canada during the winter months (I know. This seems like the wrong time of year.) to do the boat show circuit, spend important time with our families and friends, tour North America conducting seminars and workshops, complete tv and writing projects, - and plan the next cruise! See you “out there.”
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For
the last decade, Paul and I have been cruising internationally aboard
our self-built Classic 37 sloop, Two-Step, documenting our adventures
through television documentaries, videos, books, magazine articles and
the internet. We now have 45,000 miles under our keel and have visited
over countries 