PowerKeel & SteadySailer, Motorsailer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Mark, Stick to you guns lad, I like this concept of a marriage between the PowerKeel hull concept and Paine's Steadysailer design. It certainly offers the 'sailing alternative' to Dashew's FPB concept. And I think we will see more of these long-range passagemaker ideas evolve as the new world order of fuel prices become reality. Regrettably I don't have much time to join the discussion right now as I get ready for a summer to Thailand. I'll be keeping track of the discussions. And just to add more spice to the discussions I will reference this subject thread on a few other similar discussion threads. Brian Eiland beiland@usa.net www.RunningTideYachts.com distinctive expedition yachts