tophatyachts.com

Whislt not a Top Hat, here is a site of a young aussie sailing a 26fter from Europe back to Aus, a good read

http://www.bigoceans.com/home/

Also very good viewing too!, check out his video's from prepping his Contessa 26 to sailing across the Atlantic to the Caribeean & onto NY.
Interesting to see how he set-up his boat, great stuff.

There is an article on Nick's journey so far in the lattitude 38 ezine

http://www.latitude38.com/eBooks/July2009.html

dan