Whatever he studied, I had *such* a crush on him :). And I thought Ginger the most beautiful person I had ever seen. I was too young to pick up on anything beyond surface. Oh..I just loved that show.
“Oh, hell...Ginger all the way. I’m just that shallow. 😂. Although Mary Ann could be hot wife material”.
One summer late-twilight Saturday evening I remembered Gilligan’s Island was on and ran like lightning to the house from the field where I was playing, to not miss it. I remember the Jackie Gleason lead in music which followed, which had an exotic tropical Miami theme. My younger sister and I loved it, play acted it. We had river shore next to our house, and with friends we’d play act it, and locked my poor sister in a huge fish cage as Gilligan.
More trivia: the footage of the Minnow leaving the harbors was filmed immediately after JFK’s assassination, so flags at half-mast are seen in the marina.
Finally: I once read a few dozen maritime stories in a $1 Kindle collection. Apparently islands have almost impenetrable or dangerous surf zones, going in or out. Timing, viewing passages through breaks in the atoll, and sail assist are needed to fight the surf. Tom Hanks musta known this.