In the meantime, I hope someone gets the word to another Baja Ha-Ha participant - Scott Piper - that his boats have been unsuited to anything more than coastal sailing:

http://www.sail-world.com/cruising/index.cfm?nid=52841&rid=11

Or, Ned Cabot, for that matter:

http://www.jboats.com/blog/2008/01/cruising-j46-to-remote-arctic.html

Yeah, these guys going out of sight of land in their J-Boats, they're all just tragedies waiting to happen (grin)