Well, after looking, and dreaming, for quite some time, we finally went and did it. We've purchased a used and recently neglected Valiant 40. It is on-the-hard and in need of some serious elbow-grease. Looking forward to sailing up to Alaska, then??? We've got more time than money, as we've both recently retired, (luckily in our low 50's
). Looking forward to future communications. Aloha, Greg