Movie part 2

      Mar 27 ‘13 0730hrs

Greetings,

Well, we didn’t end up being a filming platform this weekend. The movie people are very disorganized and, after we told them we couldn’t prep Second Star for the trip until we had a commitment in writing, and we needed at least two day to prep, they finally emailed us an agreement on Wednesday. We read it over, made a few small changes, and sent it back. A few hours later they called to say they had to cancel for Saturday. (We heard later that the guy they had called in to be the surf double for the scene couldn’t surf). 
The next day we got a call asking if we would do a trip on Sunday for a few of the top people to have a fun day off. We told them we could but again we said we’d need an agreement in writing by the next day to be ready for Sunday. By Friday afternoon they said that they wanted to do it and so we reworded the original agreement and sent it over. It was 8:00 in the evening before we got the call that they wanted us to come to the office to sign the agreement. By 9:30 Friday night we were done with the preliminary stuff and we were ready to start prepping the boat for up to 14 people to be aboard on Sunday. 
We had asked our friends, Shay and Jessie, who are professional yacht crew people, to come help crew for the trip. They came Saturday morning and cleaned the boat while Capt Johne and I went into town to get provisions (what a shopping trip). We spent Saturday evening prepping food for up-to-14. 
They had said they would call with a final head count and time of arrival (they had left it vague somewhere between 1000 and noon). Late Saturday evening the call came, 7-10 people arriving at 12:00. Good for us. Over prepped is better than under prepped.
Sunday morning Shay and Jessie got here early to help finish getting everything ready for the guests. At noon we all in uniform waiting to greet our guests. We got a call a few minutes later to say they were on their way. 4 guests would be arriving in about 10 minutes. (ONLY 4. WOW! This should be easy.)
It was easy. The people who came were the producer, his wife and two of the actors (the younger of the two male stars and a young French woman).  They were all very down-to-earth, polite and friendly. We took them on a beautiful cruise through the archipelago, fed them lots, anchored so they could enjoy a snorkel and showed them a very good time finishing with a lovely sunset. It was a gorgeous day and I think they had a wonderful time. (Yea! Success!) 

It was a long couple of days but it turned out very well and I’m glad we got this opportunity and experience…