Thanks, Marlon! I'm not quite sure what it is you suggest I texture, but I do have to give the lifeboats and pretty much everything else a second going-over! Part of the problem with texturing is that you're never really finished!

One problem I anticipate when I "float" it is getting all the parameters right. I did an experiment, and yes, the boat locator feature works as advertised. However, my ship bobbed up and down on the "waves" (relatively calm seas, unless I got my scaling wrong) like a cork and not like a 12,000 ton ship! I'm going to have to figure out all of that!

:-)