Square Sail has established itself at the forefront of marine related film work. Since providing ships for the classic TV series ‘The Onedin Line’, the Company has gone from strength to strength. Square Sail has, as a result, created a working environment where vessels are designed and built to suit any period in history, along with the remodelling and dressing of existing ships

A famous example of Square Sail’s skills was the conversion of the Brigantine ‘Phoenix’ and the schooner ‘Carrie’ to replicate ‘Santa Maria’ and ‘Pinta’ for Ridley Scott’s epic film “1492 : Conquest of Paradise”

Kaskelot underwent a major conversion when she starred as Capt. Scott’s ‘Terra Nova’ for the film “The Last Place on Earth”. In the same film she was converted to replicate Roald Amundsen’s ‘Fram’ before being taken back 200 years in rig and hull shape to become ‘Saracen’ in “Return to Treasure Island”. She has subsequently been converted for ‘Cutthroat Island’; ‘Longitude’ and most recently Channel 4’s production ‘Shackleton’ when she replicated the ‘Endurance’

This unique ability to convert existing hulls can save film makers millions of dollars in construction costs and provide safe and seaworthy vessels

Specialist design and build projects represent no problem to Square Sail as represented by the construction of two full scale Viking Long ships, built for ‘Erik the Viking’ and two 60ft long ships for the movies ‘Odyssey' and ‘Jason & the Argonauts’