Craig, What I always marvel at is Bolger's depth of thinking about boat problems. Recently he had a live aboard power boat design in MAIB, and his details were so right on the button that I cut the articles out for future reference. He had things like an air cooled diesel with a dry exhaust (heat for the boat interior in cooler weather and as simple an installation as possible). If I remember correctly he had only one through hull fitting, but the boat had large battery capacity (ballast and hotel power for extended "away from civilization cruising" ); large drinking water capacity; and grey water capacity; two dinghies, so one person isn't stranded on the boat if the other is off fishing or running an errand; built -in flotation; a bow crush zone in case you hit a dead head at night doing 10 knots.......... Bolger has thought all the usual problems through and come up with clever and very satisfactory solutions to them. Connie