Boaterdude wrote:
Chuck,

You've got a better eye than I do. In the pic from the original
post, the portholes are round. At the Gilligan's island website, I only
see boats with rectangular portholes (or none). Would someone 'restore'
a boat and make such a change?

-Jim


It goes well beyond that.

Look at Boat #1 at the website:

Looks like two portlights in the trunk cabin, large hardtop overhang
above the cockpit,
stubby little flybridge cowling that resembles the gawd-awfuls people
used to scab onto
sedans when having a flybridge became *the* thing in the 1960's. The
sheer line looks like a ski jump and the bow is a mile high as if the
boat were designed to punch through surf or something.


Boat #2 has a larger cabin (see the difference in the size and shape of
the cabin windows just forwward of the aft bulkhead?) and therefore,
not surprisingly, a smaller cockpit. Still has a lot of sheer, but
nothing like we see in the last and smaller photo of
boat #1.


Boat #3 (The Canadian Minnow) has an extended flybridge cowling,
cockpit coaming, a signal mast not seen on the other two boats and
different portlights. Substantially less overhang above the cockpit.
The hull appears to have a less pronounced elevation in the bow, but
that could just be the photos.

And "Boat" #4 is of course not a boat at all, but rather a studio prop
built to look like a shipwreck.

The first three boats are just remotely similar, and the 4th isn't a
boat at all.