>Willy of Invader No. 1 wrote: >At 39 feet , converted from a fishing boat, she will be >small very small for a circumnavigation. I beg to disagree with the view that the boat will be "very small for a circumnavigation." The first trawler yacht to circumnavigate--Eilco Kasemier's Bylgia II--was 39 feet 0.5 inches LOA. The smallest production yacht to circumnavigate--the ATW Nordhavn--was 39 feet 9 inches. The only motorboat to circumnavigate twice--David Scott Cowper's Mabel E. Holland--was barely 42 feet. There is nothing small or wrong with the size of Invader No. 1. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Butch, a custom 29-foot passagemaker in design stage, still http://www.kastenmarine.com/buster30.htm