OWENSINDL@aol.com wrote: >> How do you account for the fact that well over a thousand DeFever designed >> tuna boats have been fishing the Pacific fleet for years - did they all die a >> lonely death offshore? >> Ron Owens > Not ALL Defevers, silly. Just the ones with the flared bows, like the one mentioned, a 53 MY, I think. Notice all the shrimpers on the US East Coast: No flared bows. You want the buoyancy of the boat to increase proportionally as the bow buries. A bow flare ups the ratio and makes you pound. Bob ________________ Robert Calhoun Smith Jr M/V MARY KATHRYN Hatteras 58 LRC Marathon in the Florida Keys