Denis-- Don and Ann Gumpertz were and possibly still are members of Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey. http://www.dryc.org/ Westward is in the charter trade in Alaska. http://www.alaska-charter-yachts.com/boat-westward.html Fire away with more questions as they come up. Collectively, subscribers here should have all the answers. Well, maybe all. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering since 1997 http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com Your host at TrawlerCrawler.net since 2009 http://www.trawlercrawler.net > I am working on a revision of Beebe's Voyaging Under Power. Information and > technology have exploded since the 3rd Edition, so I need all the help I can > get. I am an experienced passagemaker on Teka III (12 years, 50,000 plus > nm), but am not a naval architect, so I'll have to sift through all the new > and old information on design and machinery to update the book. > I will be asking PUP list people a number of questions regarding > passagemaking issues for help in the revision. I hope you will help me make > the 4th edition the best possible revision without the help of Beebe himself. > Right now I am looking at the history of passagemaking. I found the book on > Skeejacks, but can find nothing about Gumpertz's voyage on Westwind. Does > anyone have the details of this circumnavigation? > Feel free to email me direct. > Denis UmstotTeka III52 ft Knight & Carver