Here's a suggestion... as opposed to rambling around with a blank sheet of paper, let's start with a specific example of an all-out passagemaker, Dashew's Windhorse, which was designed for optimal passagemaking comfort and safety, and compare/contrast his approaches and decisions to those this group might find desirable.

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. > Replacement tops are not exactly cheap, I would like to get more than > five years before replacement. > > > Sunbrella should have a life a lot longer than five years. I realize > climate has a lot to do with it, but our boat came with a canvas cover > for just about every piece of external teak plus a two-part cover for > the entire flying bridge.

All of these have attributes peculiar to early passage makers; for instance, all have paravane stabilizers. However we also know folks who have circumnavigated in their Hatteras LRC, sans paravanes. It's so difficult to pick five, because even when narrowed down to Passagemakers, there is more information needed. Where will you cruise?