Does anyone else remember the Voyage of the Mimi? I don’t even remember what Gill and I were talking about the other day, but I asked if she had seen this series when she was in school and I was surprised that she hadn’t.
For those in the same boat (sorry, no pun intended), this was a TV program that I watched in school back in… fifth grade, I think. Maybe sixth. The Mimi was a sailboat and the plot concerned a young kid spending the summer with his grandfather, the boat’s captain, who had been chartered to ferry a scientific expedition out studying whales. Along the way, they got shipwrecked on an island and had to live off the land. Each episode had a teaching segment, talking about some scientific principle or field.
Looking it up on the internet, I discovered that the young kid was actually Ben Affleck. Weird.
So, was I alone in this experience?