Subject: Richard Bell Introduction Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:03:18 -0400 From: "Bell, Richard" <r-bell@benchmarkinternational.com> In an effort not to be a "list lurker" here's a bit of an introduction. I've owned a number of generally small power and sail boats over the years, lived on a small houseboat for a few months, and crewed on a number of larger sailboats both cruising and racing. I've some racing history with multihulls, both catamarans and trimarans. I live outside of Boston and am nearing retirement. One adventure I've always wanted to try is to do the great circle route. My wife and I have started looking at boats in that regard. Initially, we'd thought of a sailboat but after reading a number of online journals power seemed to be worth a look, thus my interest in this list. Unfortunately, we missed the Newport RI boat show where there were, to my understanding, a large number of power and sail catamarans. We did see a PDQ 34 at the Boston boat show. While it was a nice enough boat we felt that the interior was a bit chopped up and "tight." It rather felt, at least to me, as though it needed a couple of feet of "boat stretcher." In any event I expect that folks on this list might provide a good deal of perspective on boats suitable for our plans. >Note from Listmaster Georgs to Richard and others who have more than >one email address: The software that runs the list does NOT >recognize subscribers by name, only by email address; thus, when >posting messages, please do so from your subscription address. > >You can also subscribe to both your addresses, checking the no-mail >option for the second addresses; thus, you'll be able to post from >either address yet contintue to receive only one copy of everything. >If you need assistance, please contact me offlist.