[RBEmerson]

Thanks for the note. I found the French cached listing, too. Dunno why it didn't persist anywhere else but that's for another day. Anyway, I'm still hoping to talk to the owners or former owner (I have a "snail mail" address in Richmond, VA) and thought I'd throw the message out here as well as SSCA and the Baba Panda Tashiba forum (source of the French Yachtworld posting). It was rather frustrating to be no more than 50-75 yards away and unable to do anything to get Hornblower's attention. Had the weather been better (it was a close to "frog choker" rain), I might have even asked someone in a passing tender to knock on their hull for us. [/shrug] So it goes...