Bruce Jones wrote: >Twenty years earlier people were >out there quietly making long ocean power boat passages without >acclaim. A majority of them were single boats. Who are you talking about, Bruce? Your comment has me curious. Prior to Bruce and Joan Kessler aboard the Delta 70 Zopilote and Jim and Susy Sink with the Nordhavn 46 Salavation II, both in the early 1990s, I'm aware of only a handful of circumnavigations under power in recreational vessels. Are you talking in terms of trans-oceanic passages, but not necessarily circumnavigations? I have not been able to identify very many people who have made long power passages prior to 1990, other than Bob Beebe, the few boats mentioned in Voyaging Under Power, a Krogen 54 delivery skipper who crossed the Atlantic, a Willard 36 that crossed to Hawaii, and the List's own Leonard Stern who took his Marine Trader across the pond in 1984. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Editor and Publisher, Circumnavigator http://www.circumnavigatormagazine.com