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21-528: The S. S. Minnow is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island . The ship ran aground on the shore of "an uncharted desert isle" in the south Pacific Ocean , setting the stage for this popular situation comedy. The crew of two were the skipper Jonas Grumby and his first mate Gilligan , and the five passengers were millionaire Thurston Howell III , his wife Lovey Howell , movie star Ginger Grant , professor Roy Hinkley , and farm girl Mary Ann Summers . The shipwreck

42-411: A bareboat or demise charter. In a bareboat charter, no administration or technical maintenance is included as part of the agreement. The charterer obtains possession and full control of the vessel, along with the legal and financial responsibility for it. The charterer pays for all operating expenses, including fuel, crew, port expenses and P&I and hull insurance . A bareboat charter is in effect

63-501: A financing arrangement. It is generally considered a lease contract, specifically a finance lease , for accounting purposes, under both international financial reporting standards ( IFRS 16 ) and US accounting standards . In yachting , a bareboat charter is usually for a short period. There are hundreds of bareboat yacht charter brokers or agent companies, which offer yacht finding and travel organisation services that are similar to travel agents but only more specialized. Their purpose

84-412: A major restoration, the new owner planned to use it for charters and sightseeing tours. The owner equipped it with an old life preserver with "S. S. Minnow " on it, as well as other show items. Yacht charter There are three main kinds of charter: bareboat, skippered and crewed. Bareboat charters require the client to skipper the boat themselves, while skippered charters include both boat and

105-399: A minimum term of one year. The act is commonly known as bareboating or bareboat charter. There are legal differences between a bareboat charter and other types of charter arrangements, commonly called time or voyage charters. In a voyage or time charter, the charterer charters the ship or part of it for a particular voyage or for a set period of time. The charterer then can direct where

126-417: A professional skipper. Crewed charters are staffed by a captain and professional crew that can include chefs, engineers, deckhands, and stewards. Most bareboat charter companies offer basic seamanship courses to prepare clients for handling a boat. These companies may also provide skippered charters, which include a skipper, but no additional crew . Several factors determine the cost of a charter, including

147-410: A skipper or crew, but typically, bareboating refers to sailing yachts, including monohulls and catamarans . Bareboat hire has become increasingly common since the mid-1990s, particularly since the early 2000s. There has been increasing demand for yacht vacations, and many experienced and semi-experienced yachties now consider it easier and cheaper to hire a bareboat than own their own yacht. While both

168-511: A skipper/captain with documented special nautical skills and experience. However, skippered charters exist on all types of yachts. Bareboat charter A bareboat charter , or demise charter , is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement. Instead, the people who rent the vessel from the owner are responsible for taking care of such things and (for commercial shipping) obtaining insurance, usually for

189-517: A speech in which he called American television " a vast wasteland ". The ship prefix S. S. is used for ships that are powered by steam . However, the show's writers did not follow this convention and in some instances depicted it having spark plugs or being diesel -powered. The S. S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island . At

210-528: Is a small whaling boat run by The Skipper and Gilligan as a shuttle between the island and cruise ships for its passengers who are coming to the island. In 2008, the boat used in the opening of the second and third season color episodes, previously named the Bluejacket , was based at Schooner Cove Marina on the east side of Vancouver Island, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia . Having put the boat through

231-402: Is to use their experience and networks to locate a client's ideal bareboat in terms of price and location. Much like online travel agencies that sell unsold inventory of airline tickets and hotel rooms at a fraction of the price, there are now also last-minute bareboat charter brokers, where travellers can find excellent rates. Bareboat technically refers to any boat that can be chartered without

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252-424: The yacht is rented with a full crew. Usually, the crew is based on a specific yacht. A captain, a chef, a deck's hand and a hostess are a typical crew. Skippered charter means that the yacht is rented with a professional skipper/captain who is responsible for the manoeuvring of the yacht. In several cases, the skipper is also aided by other crew members. Skippered charter usually is used for yachts which require

273-470: The end of that movie, the cast and boat are wrecked on the same island, as shown by Gilligan 's discovery of a plank with " Minnow I" on it. How they knew to call the first vessel "I" before there was a second is not explained. This version of the Minnow got destroyed in another ill-fated storm due to Gilligan removing the magnet for the compass during their voyage and the castaways ended up marooned back on

294-602: The international leisure travel industry (particularly outdoor activities based vacations) and the boating industry boomed in the 2000s , so too did the bareboat charter industry, which incorporates both of pursuits. Bareboat chartering is extremely common in the Caribbean such as the British Virgin Islands , but also in Croatia with around 4000 charter boats which makes probably the largest charter fleet in

315-449: The reason for the Minnow' s wreck was that Gilligan threw its anchor overboard without a rope attached to it. A minnow is a very small bait fish, but the TV boat was reputedly named for Newton Minow , who Gilligan's Island executive producer Sherwood Schwartz believed "ruined television". Minow was chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, and is noted for

336-435: The repaired ship out to sea, the entire vessel literally fell to pieces. There are many other references to the ship in the rest of the series, such as in the episode "Court-Martial", where an investigation was launched into the Minnow 's disappearance, which at first determined that the Skipper was responsible, then later concluding that the Skipper wasn't aware that a storm was coming. It is also revealed in this episode that

357-426: The ship will go but the owner of the ship retains possession of the ship by its employment of the master and crew. In a bare-boat or demise charter, on the other hand, the owner gives possession of the ship to the charterer, and the charterer hires its own master and crew. The bare-boat charterer is sometimes called a "disponent owner". The giving up of possession of the ship by the owner is the defining characteristic of

378-441: The size of the yacht, its age, its pedigree, the number of crew, time of sailing (whether it is high season or not), and the destination. The worldwide range of charter prices (per person per week) is estimated to be from $ 1000 up to and in excess of $ 20,000. The rate for mega yachts or superyachts that are over 150-foot to 300-foot is estimated respectively to be from $ 45,000 up to $ 3,000,000 (per week) Crewed charter means that

399-522: The very same island they had escaped months before. The Minnow III is the plane built by the Professor in the 1979 made-for-TV movie The Castaways on Gilligan's Island , the sequel to Rescue From Gilligan's Island . It does not have the prefix "S. S.", as it is not a steamboat (nor were its boat predecessors). The Minnow IV , also introduced in The Castaways on Gilligan's Island ,

420-487: The world before Greece with around 2500. In the United States , there is an additional legal distinction with regard to bareboat or for hire, or "skippered" charters. When persons pool their finances to bareboat so that the qualified master among them may skipper for the group, the master is not ostensibly a paid skipper but now takes on the legal responsibilities of one. That can have far-reaching consequences in

441-417: Was first seen in the season 1 episode " Two on a Raft ", which begins with the crew and passengers awaking on the ship. Several times in the course of the series they plan ways to repair the Minnow to get off the island. In the episode "Goodbye Island", Gilligan discovered glue that was believed to be waterproof and permanent. However, it was later revealed that the glue was temporary and before they could push

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