All hands-- I'm posting this on behalf of C.H. Baker, the current owner of Robert Beebe's original Passagemaker, which is for sale. Before he died in 1988, Robert Beebe designed 111 individual vessels, none more famed than his 67th design which he built for himself and named Passagemaker. The voyages Beebe made with the 50-foot Passagemaker proved his theory that the oceans of the world could be explored in a proper powerboat with greater comfort and dispatch than in a sailboat. The book Beebe wrote--Voyaging Under Power--launched the modern-day trawler yacht era and still serves as its bible today. Beebe first wrote about the concept of passagemaking under power in 1946 in an article in Rudder, a leading boating magazine of the time. It was then that he coined the word "passagemaker" as the term for ocean-crossing vessels. Passagemaker was built in Singapore and launched in 1963. The 50,000 sea miles that Beebe put under her keel over the next five years was unheard of in a day when sailboats were the only recreational vessels venturing out of sight of land. Passagemaker has been on the hard in Trinidad since early 2001. An insurance survey conducted last year indicated she was in good condition and well equipped. http://ca.geocities.com/passagemaker@rogers.com/pm_intro.html LOA 50'0" LWL 46'6" Beam 15'0" Draft 5'4" Displacement 27.0 tons D/L 268 Fuel 1,200 gallons If you're interested in acquiring a genuine classic, please contact Charlie Baker, Passagemaker's owner, via <passagemaker#rogers.com> replacing the # with @. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997