And in 2009, he bought a 1939 Grumman Widgeon seaplane. Though without a flyable seaplane, Buffett still had a Cessna 208 Caravan on amphibious floats. It sits there to this day, and visitors can walk right up to the Albatross at the Universal Studios CityWalk attraction. In 2003, Jimmy retired the Hemisphere Dancer and put it on display at the Lone Palm Airport outside of his Margaritaville Cafe in Orlando, Florida. Like the great songwriter he is, Buffett penned a tune about the incident: Jamaica Mistaica appeared on the album Banana Wind. The Jamaicans had mistaken it for a drug-runner’s plane, though Jimmy had “only come for chicken”, he was not “the ganja plane.” U2’s Bono was also on board the plane, but neither him nor Buffett were hurt. In 1996, the Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican authorities as it taxied in the water near Negril. In their early years, the twin-engine amphibious flying boats were used primarily as search-and-rescue aircraft for the Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The name Grumman is once again back on the canoes where it always belonged.Jimmy Buffett’s most famous airplane is his 1954 Grumman HU-16 Albatross, dubbed the Hemisphere Dancer. In the summer of 2000, a licensing agreement was reached between Northrop Grumman and Marathon Boat Group. In 1996, a group of former Grumman managers and investors formed the Marathon Boat Group to purchase the canoe and boat operation from O.M.C., and resumed production of Marathon canoes, identical in every respect to the legendary Grummans. of Illinois, who soon purchased the DuraNautic Boat Company's tooling and assets and moved them to the Marathon Plant. In 1990 the Grumman boat and canoe division was sold to O.M.C. Designed for the Great Lakes, it measured 22' 3". Manufacture is between 1948 - 1952 best I can tell based on the serial number (before. in 1952.and in 1988, Grumman produced the largest aluminum boat in its history at Marathon. Vintage 17 foot double end Grumman 0.050 thickness aluminum canoe. By the end of World War II Grumman was producing a line of 13', 15', 17', 18', 19', and 20' canoes.
In 1945, the very first aluminum canoe, a 13-footer, was produced at the aircraft plant in Bethpage, Long Island.
In the summer of 1944, after portaging a heavy wood and canvas canoe on a fishing trip in the Adirondack Mountains, William Hoffman, Vice President of Grumman Aircraft Engineering, had an idea: What about making a canoe from the same lightweight, stretch-formed aluminum that Grumman had used to become the single largest producer of carrier-based fighter planes during World War II?
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