Ok boys, time to start talking numbers. I would like to start out but the computer is 60 miles from the boat.

With the intent of being to edit this later, I will now state that when I hold my forward trapeze line, after suitably extending it, to where the bow tang meets the hull, I find that my aft measurement is XX inches down the transom.

If I'm real keen, I will try to get some photo's to illustrate the thread with.