A three hour tour
 

You could buy the S.S. Minnow. Scroll down to description.

I would, but I've spent my pocket money for this week.

Hell Yeah!
 

Why is it that almost eveything I see from the 1950s or 1960s just looks so cool? Gilligan's Island pretty much raised me when I came home to an empty house after school. These days I just ponder it's cultural significance and write postmodern analyses of the series in my head. I would buy it if I could.

The other day I watched the Kon Tiki documentary (1947-51) that was made to compliment Thor Heyerdahl book of the same name. I truly believe the whole idea for GI came from that book and movie. Balsa-log rafts have so many advantages over boats, not capable of sinking being the most important. :neutral:

Balso logs, huh? I seemed to remember it was mad of reeds. So I Googled it, and of course you are right. Obviously, since you just watched the thing. It was his next boat, the Ra, that was made of reeds.

Reeds
 

Did he ever go out on that one? He liked to use indigenous technology to prove that so-called "primitives" (he even used the word himself) were not so stupid. The reed raft must have been for reedy peoples of...where? SE Asia?:neutral:

Egypt, I think. Actually not reed but papyrus.

Who can forget these seven stranded castaways on Gilligans isle?

Ya'll remember the theme song?

Chime in if you dare. ;)
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... ;)

Theme Song
 

Many folks can sing that verbatim, myself included. One thing I remember, however, is that somewhere into the 4th or 5th season, or maybe it was the first season, they changed "The Professor and Mary Ann" to "and the rest" Like this:

There was Gilligan
The Skipper Too
The Millionaire, and His Wife
A Movie Star
And The Rest
Here on Giligan's Isle.

When it was and/or should have been:

There was Gilligan
The Skipper Too
The Millionaire, and His Wife
A Movie Star
The Professor and Mary Ann
Here on Giligan's Isle.:neutral:

The Mosquitos Played on Gilligan's Isle. Bob Denver had two roles in that episode.

Reeds, papyrus is the paper they made from those same reeds. ;)

Has anyone heard... Stairway to Gilligan?

Try it sometime. Find the MP3... or just sing the theme along with Stairway to Heaven...

I remember hearing that years ago on Doctor Demento, before Led Zepplin's publisher exerted it's copyright on the music, which dropped it out of the Top 100 Demented songs of the year, although it still got honorable mention, but could no longer be played on the radio.

Overall, we owe a lot to Gilligan's Island, including helping us memorize certain bits of Shakespeare ...
"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be ..."

Actually we're both confused. Papyrus is the name of the plant/reed that papyrus the paper and Ra were made of.

My band does a traditional tune entitled "Bonnie Ship the Diamond". The arrangement we set for it lent itself to us tacking the GI theme onto the end of it. Gets a pretty good laugh.

We are also doing the song which many people think inspired the Stairway hook, a traditional song called "Brigid Flynn". In keeping with our hybridization theme, we tack the instrumental break of "Stairway" onto the end of that.

What can I say? We're musical whores.

Ive actually been to the real Gilligans Isle. Its a little island down in the Bahamas that one of the cruise lines(Carnival I believe) owns or did own mm 15 years ago. They would shuttle people over there for the day and have food and drinks snorkeling ect... the lagoon looks just like it did in the opening credits of the show was kinda strange but enjoyable,though the reef had been totally ravaged by novice snorkelers.

Damn, I didn't know that. Thanks.:thumb2:

Cool ship. I once had a '76 Chris Craft 31 ft. 2 Mercuries each 350HP. Gas prices forced me to sell it for a Formula 29. I have something with US heavy iron, such as ships and 60's cars.