Pierce Bronson actually sails cats in some way. I was flipping channels late one night and saw a clip on some celeb sighting show of him sailing a NACRA 5.8 in real getup not a movie stunt.
50 First Dates had a scene on the beach where in background you could see some H16s.
Also, is it not one in the background?
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I am distressed (to a very minor, itsty bitsy, small, littel degree) that we are depicted at person strikers. ("being" strikers ;be it sponges or whatever)
The youngerlings in my family have told me that SpongeBob SquarePants, the movie, is terrible. In their words:
awful. Do not waste your time.
However, it would have been very cool if Gary was the Cat Sailor! 
These are fans who bought premier tickets, a week in advance to see this cartoon.
On a related note; the 3D-IMAX version of "The Polar Express" is truly worthy of my mention. I just got a call from my 61 year old catsailor buddy who saw it today, after my advice. He was very thrilled to have seen it. No age restrictions here, even though it is rated X, er um I mean G.
GARY
yea, I saw that here in oz! it was some papparazzi action show and they were pestering him on the beach with some female friend. then they show you him on the nacra, he is sitting down skippering and his mate is out on trap.. didnt see a harness on him though. unrelated but in a clip ive got of an old australian band called sherbet they are on top of some sand dunes sitting on top of a old (well new when the clip was shot) scow moth.
The only info I can find for Australian cats in the 50's were 20 foot Yvonnes (which from day one flew spinnakers), designed in 1951 by lindsay cunningham of little americas cup fame they were sailing in good numbers by 56, go here for their history. http:/
by the early 60's there were numerous very fast cats like the Arrow and arafura cadet sailed at clubs everywhere.
I remember the film being done because my father worked at the shell refinery at geelong in Victoria where the sub was filmed docked at the pier. He was told if employees were filmed as they worked, to stand still as they would be deleted from the film stock by hand. My dad also built a 14 foot ply cat with a solid deck at this time and the first time he took it out couldn't turn it around as the rudders smashed, typical of cats at that time. He had an oar onboard, dropped the sail, sculled the cat around, rehoisted the sail, got to shore, and left it there never to sail it again. A big storm came through later and washed it away which he was rather grateful for as he said the cat scared the hell out of him.
Anyone catch the Hobies (Hobie 15s) on TV last night?
Richard Branson's Rebel Billionaire finale on Necker Island.
http://www.fox.com/rebelbillionaire