All hands-- Passagemaking Under Power List now is open for traffic! We're starting with close to 200 subscribers. It would be great to have you introduce yourselves to each other. Please post a message to Passagemaking Under Power List <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> with the subject line featuring the name of your boat. For example, Introducing Butch, a Michael Kasten custom 29-foot passagemaker In the message, please touch on all or some of the following points of information: Your name and homeport Cruising grounds and passages made in brief Future passagemaking plans Why you selected the boat you did for passagemaking Conclude the self-introduction with your full name, your boat's name, and the URL for a boat page if you have one. That's a good signature to use for all posts to this list. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Butch, a Michael Kasten custom 29-foot passagemaker in design stage http://www.kastenmarine.com/buster30.htm