Gilligan's Island only ran for 3 years???? Wow...i loved that show when i was a kid.
On 8/29/06, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.antiwrap.com/?1058 > > ON Vancouver Island of all places. Anyone want the semi-famous tour boat? > > Gilligan's Minnow no longer lost > Last Updated Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:23:13 EDT > CBC Arts > > SS Minnow, the ill-fated vessel from the 1960s TV series Gilligan's > Island, is no longer shipwrecked on "an uncharted desert isle" " but on > Vancouver Island, where it's for sale. > > Unlike the classic program about the luckless passengers of a stranded > tour boat, you might not want to take the Minnow on a three-hour tour. > > But you might be interested to know the 12-metre vessel will sleep five. > > The vessel has gone on sale in Parksville, B.C., for $99,000. A website > selling the boat lists the Minnow as a twin-diesel, mahogany Wheeler Express > Cruiser. > > It's actually one of four ships that were used during the shooting of > Gilligan's Island, which aired from 1964 to 1967. > > Like its fictional prototype, this Minnow also ran aground " on a reef > in the Hecate Strait, which separates the Queen Charlotte Islands from the > northern coast of B.C.'s mainland. > > The previous owner was on his way south from Alaska. > > Scotty Taylor of Parksville bought it for salvage and restored it. > > But Taylor, 70, is tired of working on the boat and wants to sell it, > according to a boat broker in Parksville. > > The Minnow Taylor is selling was used in the opening credits of the second > season. > > Of the others, one boat was towed to Kauai in Hawaii for beach scenes, one > was rented in Honolulu Harbour for the opening credits and one was built at > CBS Studios in the second season. > > Copyright Â(c)2006 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214360 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
