Pretty funny

Ah, youth at play...

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The SS Minnow was a 1964 Wheeler M/Y with a LOA of 38.6ft and powered by a single 230hp Detroit Diesel with a dry weight of 20,600 lbs. With a displacement style hull she had a cruising speed of 9 knots, which means they only could have traveled 27 nautical miles outbound from Honolulu during the duration of their 3 hour tour (excluding return trip and no wake zone). Figuring in a 3 knot storm drift USCG search grids would only have been about 150 square miles and fairly easy to rescue. :unsure:



Now I’m starting to doubt if this whole documentary was even real.
 
iblive said:
The SS Minnow was a 1964 Wheeler M/Y with a LOA of 38.6ft and powered by a single 230hp Detroit Diesel with a dry weight of 20,600 lbs. With a displacement style hull she had a cruising speed of 9 knots, which means they only could have traveled 27 nautical miles outbound from Honolulu during the duration of their 3 hour tour (excluding return trip and no wake zone). Figuring in a 3 knot storm drift USCG search grids would only have been about 150 square miles and fairly easy to rescue. :unsure:



Now I’m starting to doubt if this whole documentary was even real.
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Gilligans Island trivia. The Pilot episode was filmed in Nov 1963. In the opening scene where the Minnow is leaving the harbor there is a flag on a tall flag pole in the background on the harbor grounds. It was flying at half mast. They filmed that shot a few days after the JFK assassination.
 
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