It has been brought to my attention that I need to give the fine folks on the list a little more to work with. The boat is a 1972 54 ft. krogen designed (identical hull design to the newer Kadey Krogens but much stronger) full displacement trawler built by Charley Morgan. Extremely heavey built solid glass hull, 4 full length 6 inch wide thickly encapsolated stringers with transverse stringers spaced 5 feet apart the full length. It was WAY overbuilt. It has twin detroit 4-53s. The iron diesel tanks will be removed and I am planning to glass in new tankage to the hull, about 1500 gallons total, includeing a day tank. We will install a new westerbeke 15 kw. gen and 2 xantrex 2500 watt inverters with 16 134 a.h. agm's. As of now the boat has no ballast. The pilothouse is over the salon now but we are planning to move it to the front of the salon to lower the c.g. a little, we will have a steering station and controls up there for better visability in close quarters. The masts have been removed and we will install a lift davit for tender and cargo handling. Any ideas will be apreciated. thanks