NCIS: Gibb's boat

[George Roberts]

Last week's episode had the boat in the water as a crime scene.

And then sawn up into pieces. Poor end to a nice looking boat.

[Garret]

Originally Posted by George Roberts

Last week's episode had the boat in the water as a crime scene.

And then sawn up into pieces. Poor end to a nice looking boat.

1) Was it really the boat sawn up? All I saw were some hull sections lying upside down on the floor. No cabin, etc.

2) Maybe it's my faulty memory - but I don't remember ever seeing a hard chine hull in his shop. I even remember thinking that some of the frames had nice curves....

[paladin]

The boat in the crime scene and the "boat" cut up were two different critters.

[py]

The boat in the basement is definitely not hard chine. Saw one shot of though where the planking looked decidely like a poorly built movie set rather than any sort of real attempt at boat building.

[Richard Jones]

Originally Posted by paladin

The boat in the crime scene and the "boat" cut up were two different critters.

To elaborate, the boat in the water and then shown in Abby's lab was indeed a hard-chined craft. Gibb's never built a hard chine.

All the boats he built were round bottom. The sawn up boat was round bottomed and looked like the boat that Gibb's was building in his basement. These looked to me to be nicely made props, but certainly not real boats. No real boats were sacrificed in the making of this show.

One of the crime clues was a bullet graze mark on the hull, portside, just below the waterline, leading Gibb's to believe the boat was out of the water when the crime occurred. Did it never occur to him that the boat could have been on the port tack, boat heeled, revealing some bottom? The writers certainly weren't sailors.

And to think this is the most important thing I've got to think about this evening. Sad...

[Rich VanValkenburg]

But you forgot the most important question, how in h--- did he get it out of the basement? Even they can't seem to figure it out.

[mobjack68]

they got the boat out of the basement the same way they got the cameras and lights in.....through the HUGE gaping hole that is the "stage front" of the movie set....really sorry to ruin it for you folks...

[Garret]

Originally Posted by mobjack68

they got the boat out of the basement the same way they got the cameras and lights in.....through the HUGE gaping hole that is the "stage front" of the movie set....really sorry to ruin it for you folks...

That was cruel. All my illusions are now officially shattered...

[George Roberts]

When one watches TV, looks at a stage play, or reads a book, one needs to believe.

The illusion is that Gibbs built the boat in a basement, sent it to Mexico, it came back in the water, and it was cut up.

If you notice anything contradictory, you are not in the story. I prefer to be in the story.

[Sailgirl207]

I was actually coming here to ask a silly question regarding NCIS and Gibbs' boat thinking to myself - okay everyone on here is going to think I'm crazy. I have to say it's made my day to already see a post on the topic.

Thank you all for the smile

~Elizabeth
Proud Schooner J&E Riggin passenger, Rockland, Maine

[Garret]

Originally Posted by Sailgirl207

I was actually coming here to ask a silly question regarding NCIS and Gibbs' boat thinking to myself - okay everyone on here is going to think I'm crazy. I have to say it's made my day to already see a post on the topic.

Thank you all for the smile

~Elizabeth
Proud Schooner J&E Riggin passenger, Rockland, Maine

Crazy? You'd have to go pretty far to beat this crew, Elizabeth.... Glad to help with a smile anytime!

Garret

[Rich VanValkenburg]

I have a friend that sails the Riggin quite a bit. If you see Maureen Riley, tell her I said hello.

[Richard Jones]

Originally Posted by George Roberts

When one watches TV, looks at a stage play, or reads a book, one needs to believe.

The illusion is that Gibbs built the boat in a basement, sent it to Mexico, it came back in the water, and it was cut up.

If you notice anything contradictory, you are not in the story. I prefer to be in the story.

Well spoken and very true. But we wooden boats folks are something of perfectionists. Well, I say, "I didn't do a perfect job on this boat, but the next one will be!". ( I seriously doubt it..) So, when Hollywood makes blunder, I love to self-righteously point them out!

[slusher_ben]

The original boat was suppose to be a Amigo and in fact in the opening scene when the boat is discovered it is refered to as a Amigo. Of course the boat that was pulled from the water was a hard chined hull, maybe a misty? Or possibly a Devlin, but probabvly not. The hull (props) shown cut up were round bottom. It would have been great if they had shown an actual completed Glen-L Amigo instead.

[Bob Perkins]

I just watched the episode on DVR - then came here knowing there would be a thread with all the mistakes

Ship Captain: "That looks like an Amigo hand build kit boat" - oh come on...

And worse - The dead guys got splinters from being dragged across the deck.. I watched Gibbs sanding all the time.. There were no stinking splinters!

I would have liked them to show the launch