HMS Bounty II

On Thursday, the HMS Bounty II sailed up the Kennebec River and will be docked at the Maine Maritime Museum here in Bath through Sunday. According to our newspaper, this ship was built for the 1962 version of "Mutiny on the Bounty," with Marlon Brando. It was built to be sailed to Tahiti for the movie, and then burned in the end, like the real one. Apparently, Brando said that if they burned the ship, he wouldn't be in the movie, so it still exists. It was also the most expensive movie prop ever- built for $750,000.
The ship's helm was taken from the ship used in the 1930's version of the movie starring Clark Gable, and the ship was also in Treasure Island, the Spongebob Squarepants movie (?) and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. In fact, one of the crew members of the ship said that they were all extras in Pirates of the Caribbean- dressed as pirates- because they needed somebody to sail the boat. Though he did add that Johnny Depp wasn't too bad at steering the ship. :)

Inside tours of the ship are going on today and tomorrow, but we decided to check it out from the river, so we put the boat in and cruised past for some pictures. If you notice in the picture below, there's a guy hanging off the front mast (which I'm sure has a more official name than "front mast").

What a look! I think she's saying, "Can you slow down a little bit, Daddy? My Cheerios keep blowing away." :)