Pat, im kind of into boats as well, my father was, PTs, 1:96 warships, etc etc, i have his Sterling 42ft chriscraft corvette. Never knew what it was till i saw your online magazine.
My boat operation nowadays is LCMs for my shemrnas. I have a scratch built LCM6 i bought and a dklm lcm3 kit i havent built yet.
word is torro is making a RTR lcm3 in 1:16 now.