The name of the ship was "Sea Dodge".
Gilbert Gottfried and Ed O'Neill both appeared in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990). Gilbert Gottfried later sadly died on Ed O'Neill's 76th birthday.
Al considers himself to be the expert of the sea because he had seen "all three thousand episodes of Gilligan's Island (1964)." In reality, not including the pilot episode, there were ninety-eight episodes, spanning three seasons.
This episode was taped on February 10, 1995 and February 17, 1995.