Lethbridge College instructor and filmmaker George Gallant recently went on a trip to Quebec where he met up with a crew of young sailors.

He went on behalf of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, sailing for six days and shooting a five-minute segment –TV pilot-for a series called From the Water, basically about people who live on the water.

He travelled on the H.M.S. Bounty originally built for the movie the Mutiny on the Bounty and would also be familiar from the flick Pirates of the Caribbean as well as on SpongeBob SquarePants the movie.

They started in Erie, Penn. and sailed across Lake Erie through a canal, spent a day going through the locks and continued sailing through Lake Ontario and into the St. Lawrence.

All the while filming.

“It wasn’t luxury, the cabins were small and the boat creaked in the night,” Gallant said.

“It took me a couple nights to be able to sleep.”

The group of young shipmates, most in their early 20s, travel around to various tall ship festivals. They are a full working crew, they have night watches and they eat in shifts.

There are about 35 people on the boat, which is 110 feet long.

The Bounty will pick up guests who pay for their stay on the ship. That is how the boat and crew keep going financially.

The Bounty is a larger ship; people are more interested in going on a larger ship and it equals better pay for the crew having more guests.

George Gallant and Yves Jean who he worked with traveled as guests.

The show From the Water will be aired in English and French.