Let me be the group curmudgeon here... It looks to me like he has the worst of all worlds in this design... First it is a monohull with a less than 6:1 fineness ratio so 11 knots is just about it, downhill with the engine screaming and a 30 foot following sea curling over the transom... It has hard chines which makes it quick to rebound roll, and rebound roll, and rebound roll, so he needs both a keel and sail to dampen the motion... He has the engine shoehorned down in a narrow keel box which has to make maintenance just loads of fun... He has the initial out of pocket expense and complications of installing and maintaining a large sail rigging while at the same time he has the initial out of pocket expense and complications of installing and maintaining a powerboat engine, wherebye he gets to continuously manage the sails whilst simultaneously burning diesel... Not to mention the, "wonderful forward visibility", which consists of a 15 degree arc dead forward that is a wonderful view of the aft side of the mast... In spite of of 831 sq. ft. of sail and a keel stuffed with a cast iron engine, he has to resort to drogue stabilizers to keep from hurling his lunch over the gunnel... If I were a cynical person I might say I can see why he refused to do the drawings himself and have his name on it... But since I am not, I won't... There is an old guideline I try to follow in life, to whit: Just because you can do something does not mean you should... OK less sarcastically, all boats are compromises... This one has more than most.. denny --------------------------------- Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better.