All hands-- Great to see the List return to its purpose: Passagemaking Under Power (TM), a sub-list of the popular Trawlers & Trawlering List, was created to serve as a special forum for those already voyaging the world and those actively planning to engage in long-range cruising. Offshore and trans-oceanic trawlering is what PUP is all about. Thanks very much for the expressions of support, and the donations to the cause. Robert Beebe's seminal work was entitled Voyaging Under Power. I gave his idea my own spin by using the phrase Passagemaking Under Power to describe this forum and the seminars I organized some years back. There are other projects in the works under that trademark. By its nature, a List such as PUP sees traffic wax and wane. When there's little traffic, it does not mean the forum has died. Members are simply busy with passagemaking or other priorities. It usually only takes a good question or two to fire up discussions again. As we have seen in the last few days. Enjoy! And don't be afraid to ask questions if you plan on going cruising over long distances. --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