Boat in the Sky: Living the Dream

The ultimate travelling machine, a Grumman Albatross. Designed in 1944, this antique 30,000 pound ex-U.S. Navy flying boat was converted to a modern yacht. The voyage ranged from ice-filled lakes above the Arctic Circle to the chilly waters of the Tasman Sea, covered 14 months, 35,000 miles, and 12 countries. No ordinary yacht can take off and land in pristine high mountain lakes and landlocked South Pacific lagoons. Join pilots and Scuba divers Joyce and John Proctor as they travel to exotic lands and seas, such as Siberia and South Pacific cannibal islands, in search of old flying boat bases.