Tad - What you wrote describes our boat almost to a T. The Sailboat Database was created by John Holtrop back in the 90s. John did a lot of work using fuzzy logic and made comparisons easy. Two of the criteria shown in a spreadsheet here _http://www.johnsboatstuff.com/Articles/fuzzy.htm_ (http://www.johnsboatstuff.com/Articles/fuzzy.htm) are "capsize" and roll acceleration," and bear on this discussion. Read the readme first. If you look up our boat, "Skookum 53" you will find that despite the lack of a ballast figure included in the displacement and ballast column she has very respectable numbers. Add 20,000 lbs of lead and she becomes almost un-rollable, or so we would hope. The tradeoff of course is that she is very stiff, with a roll period under 5 seconds without the birds in the water. Of course we lack the top hamper which would have made for a more reasonable roll period. These Monk ketch-rigged trollers were designed for the PNW fishery and most are still fishing thirty years later. BTW, are you the Tad who has posted to Boat Design Net and has done a lot of work with paravanes? If so, I'd like to ask a question or two off-list. Regards, John "Seahorse" > To meet this standard your "Perfect Passagemaker" will have to look a great deal like Windhorse. That is, have relatively high freeboard full length, relatively narrow beam, a very small deckhouse above main deck level, and probably no double decking at all. **************Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212416248x1200771803/aol?redir=http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)