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Improvised Sail
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You build a sailboat or raft and want to sail it on a pond, stream, or lake or ocean. But uh oh! Your boat doesn't have a sail, what do you do? The simplest thing you can do is use something as a makeshift sail, whether it be a your dress, pants or shirt. Sometimes everyone's clothes are sewn together to make a sail. Sometimes may even be made of improbable materials. But that doesn't matter in most cases. Either way, now that your boat has a sail, on with ye journey! Essentially, this is a trope where a boat or raft of any kind is devoid of a regular sail before being given an unorthodox sail. Can be a part of MacGyvering. May overlap with Deserted Island. Similar to this is: Improvised Parachute. |
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The Viz character Felix and His Amazing Underpants often does this with... well, guess. | |
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The Tom and Jerry short "Salt Water Tabby" ends with Jerry sailing away on Tom's picnic basket and using Tom's bathing suit as the sail. | |
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A plot device in the John Candy movie Summer Rental, where a pair of his character's under shorts are used in lieu of a sail, while entering a sailing contest against another vacationing family. | |
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In Littlest Pet Shop (2012) "Littlest Pet Street," Blythe and her dad are stranded on a desert island because the Pet Jet has crashed and isn't airworthy. Blythe asks if it's seaworthy, and they wind up sailing it home, with a sail made of her dad's Bermuda shorts. Doubles as an odd Chekhov's Gag, as he'd bought the shorts to wear on his staycation. | |
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In Lupin III: Part 1, after stealing a dozen classic paintings, Lupin and his gang sail away on a boat whose sail is made out of the sewn-up paintings themselves. | |
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In Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character escapes the island after making a raft, the sail of which is the corner section of a port-a-john that washed up on shore. He had tried sailing out before, but the improvised sail gives him the extra power needed to make it past the waves breaking over the surrounding reef. | |
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In the Gilligan's Island film, Rescue From Gilligan's Island, the Howells donate many of their spare clothes to be used for sails. The sets of clothing that only comprised part of the luggage they had taken with them on the ill-fated three-hour cruise. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "An American Tragedy", Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin are stranded on a rowboat in the middle of Crystal Lake. Mr. Conklin suggests using Mr. Boynton's shirt as a sail. Miss Brooks ups the ante: | |
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In Cat City, Sgt. Lazy Dick makes one out of a leaf. | |
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One episode of Mr. Bogus showed Bogus and Brattus sailing down the river in a raft, using Bogus's pants as a sail, with Bogus just standing in his Goofy Print Underwear. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: When a group of Toads needs to use a raft to sail back to the mainland, Paper Mario uses himself as the sail. | |
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Horatio Hornblower and his crew must improvise sails and masts several times throughout the Hornblower Saga. Notable examples: Beat to Quarters: During the first fight between Hornblower's frigate Lydia and the enemy Natividad, both ships lose a mast and the associated sails to enemy fire. When darkness and bad weather force them to break off the battle, both crews must jury-rig their ships with replacement masts and sails before re-engaging the next day. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies: The packet ship carrying Hornblower and his wife back to England gets caught in a hurricane and is nearly sunk. With all the masts gone and the ship kept afloat only by her buoyant cargo, Hornblower and the remaining crew must improvise a mast and sails in order to reach land before they die of hunger and thirst. |
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In Napoléon (1927), the title character uses the Tricolore as a makeshift sail when fleeing his native Corsica. | |
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One Adventure Time comic had Marceline the Vampire Queen serve as a sail on Princess Bubblegum's raft by assuming the form of a giant bat and clinging to the mast. | |
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One episode of Hey Arnold! had Arnold and Gerald going out fishing. They took off their shirts to make the sail on their boat. Arnold provided both his blue overshirt and his red flannel undershirt. | |
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In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh breaks the mechanism that powers the ferryman Urshanabi's boat, and is forced to gather sticks to make into an absurdly long pole to push against the bottom of the river of death. It turns out he miscalculated and they're one stick-length short, so they have to use the mast to make up the difference (since touching the water directly is fatal). Gilgamesh himself serves as the mast, standing with his arms extended, "wearing" the sail. | |
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