I'm new to this board, so could you let me know if this is fairly accurate?

storms in the northern Pacific run clockwise; so if they were blown off course, it would have been to the south or west of their intended location, not to the east.

Wow. thanks

storms in the northern Pacific run clockwise; so if they were blown off course, it would have been to the south or west of their intended location, not to the east.

Then again, what was their location when the storm hit?

Do we assume that the tour just started or that the tour was around Hawaii???

Then again, what was their location when the storm hit?

Do we assume that the tour just started or that the tour was around Hawaii???
that's the problem - we don't really know where they were going

my guess is that if they started in Hawaii, and were planning to just go out for about three hours, that it would have just have been some inter-island hopping about and not really intending to go away from the Hawaiian chain at all.

I seem to remember the Island being described in an episode as being southwest of Hawaii.

that's the problem - we don't really know where they were going

my guess is that if they started in Hawaii, and were planning to just go out for about three hours, that it would have just have been some inter-island hopping about and not really intending to go away from the Hawaiian chain at all.

A three hour tour, on a little boat like that - probably couldn't go more than 15 miles an hour at most, in order to return to the same place in 3 hours, they would not have gone more than 20 or so miles from Honolulu -- they probably would not have even left sight of Oahu. In fact, what the heck would you "tour" if you are out of sight of land??

Just another of those "suspend disbelief" elements, like the Howells bringing along all those clothes for a 3 hour boat ride. (Besides, since Mr Howell owned his own yacht, why would he charter a little boat like the Minnow and ride along 3 other passengers who were complete strangers?) Fun to speculate once in a while, but don't let it ruin the show for you

Just another of those "suspend disbelief" elements, like the Howells bringing along all those clothes for a 3 hour boat ride. (Besides, since Mr Howell owned his own yacht, why would he charter a little boat like the Minnow and ride along 3 other passengers who were complete strangers?) Fun to speculate once in a while, but don't let it ruin the show for you


Like that episode when Gilligan asked Mr. Howell for some pills (tranquilizers?) and Mr. Howell had a whole briefcase of pill bottles with him on the island! How could he possibly think he needed all that medicine in a 3-hour time period! LOL:lol:

I've been saying this for years, besides that fact that storms just dont appear out of nowhere, the skipper would have had a good 24 hrs warning,they couldnt have gone very far from hawaii.

if it's any help, they filmed the show at a place in California called ECHO LAKE PARK.

I've purchased "The Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook".

In the first paragraph of chapter one, it reads,

"The passengers and crew aboard the S.S. Minnow, a small sightseeing vessel, would be shipwrecked on an island about two hundred miles southeast of Hawaii."

storms in the northern Pacific run clockwise; so if they were blown off course, it would have been to the south or west of their intended location, not to the east.

Perhaps they were to the east of Honolulu when the storm was coming from the West to East and they went further East to try to outrun the storm.

I just watched episode 18 "X Marks The Spot" from season one. The Pentagon fires a missile at 140 Lat and 10 Long that lands right at Gilligan's Island lagoon. Here is a shot from that episode. It is southeast of Hawaii!!!

I recall my Physics instructor from Phoenix College mentioning that the castaways of Gilligan's island left port in one ocean and the storm blew them into a completely different ocean. I don't recall the actual locations he was talking about (this was probably in 1990), but I remember him saying, "That was some storm."

Boy, was he wrong. :lol:

Yellow pin is at 10 Lat and 140 Long

Closer investigation

Episode #21 "Big Man on a Little Stick", the Professor tells Duke Williams that they are located 110 deg. Long. / 10 deg. Lat.

Come on Professor, I thought you were good at details.

well, what do you expect? After all, he couldn't even fix a friggin' hole in a boat!!!:lol:

well, what do you expect? After all, he couldn't even fix a friggin' hole in a boat!!!:lol:

LOL :lol: :lol:
Thanks Treky

I caught part of an episode the other day. It was the one where some creates washed up on the shore of Gilligan's Island. In them were movie props and a movie camera with new film. The cast decided to make a movie showing how they got stranded and where their location was.

They had sketched a map of the United States and Hawaii on a rock slap with chalk. Even though it was a silent film, the skipper announced when the camera was rolling, "Here is Hawaii. We drifted southeast and then the storm hit." :eek:

With his gestures where they were when the storm hit, the storm didn't take them as far off course from where they were.

COOL! You learn something every day. ;)

S1E18

I remember that in the episode "Gilligan's Living Doll," there was a scene where Gilligan and the Professor were discussing what they had learned from the robot and according to the robot he was going from Hickam Field Hawaii to Vandenberg Air Base in California. If that's true, then according to the island's location on the map, the plane really strayed off course.