The ship, the Sk/S Christian Radich, is home-ported in Oslo and still sails as of 2019. It is possible to book passage on board and in some cases take part in daily shipboard operations as part of a 'trainee' crew similar to that which was shown in the film.
The ships journey, as depicted in the film, took 239 days to complete, and covered 17,500 miles.
In an early example of cross-marketing tie-ins, Random House Inc. published a 64-page board-bound book entitled "Louis de Rochemont's Windjammer" (©1958) by Captain Alan Villiers, who was a technical consultant to the producers. This book features stories from the voyage and pictures from the film as well as technical articles and pictures illustrating how the film was created and showing some of equipment used to produce the "Cinemiracle" effect.
The 2010 restoration reformats the picture into a three-dimensional computer graphic, the trademarked Smilebox Curved Screen Simulation, to replicate the film's original theatrical viewing experience.
The film's original 7-channel Cinermiracle Sound has been remastered into a 5.1 mix for its 2010 restoration.