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I have been trying to get my hands on these photos for over a year
now.
I work in the Vancouver film and television industry as a graphic
designer and I had heard chatter a while back about two Catalina
30's that were built for a locally shot movie, and today during a
conversation I found out that a friend of mine had these pics on his
laptop.

The movie, if you can call it that, was
Freddy Got Fingered, one
of the most pathetic pieces of crap to ever be filmed here.
The show starred Tom Green and co-starred Rip Torn.
Why Torn agreed to work with Green is beyond me.
Anyways, in the movie, the C30 belongs to Rip Torn's character, at
some point in the ah...
story, his boat gets picked up off the water
by a helicopter and dropped into a huge wood chipper at a sawmill,
...whatever.
In the end this entire sequence was edited out of the film.
Too bad
the rest of the film wasn't edited out of the film.

If you ever have the misfortune to view this epic, watch the
background.
The show was filmed mostly around my little town of Squamish, and
the sailing scenes were staged out of the Squamish Yacht Club,
where I'll be mooring Tomorrow's Girl when she goes back in the
water.
Two boats for two takes.
The boats were built over a period of three weeks by a group
of six highly skilled scenic carpenters from IATSE Local 891.
Although the boats
might not stand up
to close scrutiny,
from 200 feet up,
dangling by a
helicopter lift cable
they could probably
even have fooled
Frank Butler!
Setting up the wood-chipper scene.
Carting the pieces of after the wood-chipper scene.
I'm still on the hunt for the elusive aerial shots of the
helicopter flying the Catalina over the marina.
It may take a while to hunt them down but some day I
will post the other shots here!
Building Fake C30's