1. Get home, yes. Powerful. We wish our 27HP Yanmar were about 60HP. That seems to be about where newer get-somewhere engines are these days, and likely that is what would be needed to just keep position in a real blow, say nothing of getting anywhere. 2. A large bilge pump, electric clutch-driven off the main engine and piped to the forepeak as well as the ER and is in addition to large electric pumps in each space. 2A. A watertight collision bulkhead. 3. There's not much talk about fire on these lists, but it's every professional seaman's worst nightmare. This was drilled into me when I was working as an oiler on a Getty tanker. The first place you go upon reporting aboard is to your fire station, then your lifeboat station. IMO, the puny fire extinguishers we all carry would be totally inadequate for a real conflagration. A quality 3/4 inch garden hose with a standard nozzle set to the fog position can remove a lot of heat from a fire and perhaps save the life of someone who is afire, God forbid. This of course requires a good pump and some thought as to how to power it. 4. Manual backup (paravanes) for fin stabilizers. 5. An enclosed aperture with Spurs on the shaft. 6. A keel that the boat can stand on. 7. Attachments and tackle for the emergency tiller. Regards, John "Seahorse" > Full displacement hull to get #1, and some sort of reliable get-home power. I'd suggest to the originator of that question to get Robert Bebe's "Voyaging Under Power". It goes into all that. ----- Original Message ---- From: John Harris 1) RANGE > 3,000 miles i.e. adequate to reach any point on earth with reasonable routing adjustments. 2) Stabilizers of any kind, passive, active, compensating or whatever, without them life is to uncomfortable - sometimes. 3) Water supply - a water maker or >200 gallons of tankage or both. We can get along easily on 10 gallons a day or with rationing on 5, so that allows for 20 to 40 days of water. Other thoughts ? ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour