The series was shot almost entirely in California so a partial mock-up of a real vessel, floating but dock bound, was used. The real vessel was used for the stock seagoing shots of the character boat "Tiki III" and it had a history. The "Pilgrim" was an eighty-five foot Alden Schooner which had sailed around the World starting in the Summer of 1932, a voyage that was chronicled in National Geographic in 1937. It was subsequently owned by several celebrities and others, including reputedly for a time Gardner McKay. In 1980 it met a sad but colorful end when it sank in the category five hurricane Allen in the Grenadines.
Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war.
Lionel Newman's haunting theme music would appear to have been composed several years earlier. In Kuss vor dem Tode (1956) it can clearly be heard after 57 minutes playing in the Esquire Club's cocktail lounge.