Awhile back I had dinner with Art Stevens, who gave me some inside to this movie. Art owned one of the 40's at the time, that was chartered to the movie. Art's son towed the boat to Ct from California and assisted with the sailing crews. According to Art, Pierce went out to the boats on the water took one look, and said back to the beach. All of his scenes were blue screened. "Not going to mess up the face". Randy could confirm, but I was told he was not within 100 miles of the boats. No way he was on the rack.