Magnum's surf-ski paddle changes color from white to red and back to white throughout the race.
The set dressing for Higgins' study includes book shelves containing a range of multi-volume sets which, for the purposes of visual interest, are arranged in odd groups. Among them are two different editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica and 19 Britannica year books (books that could be purchased after the original set, with each volume contain new information for each subsequent year). The year books are from yet another edition. Beside this, the encyclopedias are not arranged in a sensible A-to-Z order, but scattered in groups across multiple shelves. Being a highly organized man and one who has access to a great deal of money, Higgins would see to it that there would only be a recent edition, arranged together in alphabetical order, and without any year books at all. That is, if he were going by the book.