I've thought of that, too. You'd think that if they could use the pieces to make clothes, that they would be able to re-make a balloon out of them.
But... I would think that it might be kind of hard to "sew" pieces of the rubber/latex balloon together and make it airtight. But they could possibly use some of that glue that they would make out of tree sap to cover the seams. That might work.
That reminds me of another time where they "gave up" when they didn't have to. Or maybe the rest of them didn't give up, but Gilligan either wasn't thinking(surprise), or actually wanted them to stay on the island. And that was when Gilligan found the "eye of the idol".
He knew that the wishes came true, but at the end he pretended to throw it but actually kept it for himself even though he had used up his three wishes. If he had actually thrown it so that one of the others could find it, they would have had so many more wishes to get off the island(and back to Hawaii).
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