Your rudder connection just reminds me of some of the other really good outside the box thinking you have done. I would love to see the whole boat sometime, you wouldn't be headed for Europe anytime soon, would you? We are missing the Bahamas a little after a cold, wet week in Paris (fun, though) and are now back on the boat in Lagos, Portugal where Piscator seems more like an apartment in the marina than a sailboat. That's not a complaint.