Thank you for your input Dan. It is not the answer I wanted to hear but it's the one that makes the most sense to me so far (and who should know better than you?). Bryce grouping meshes by material group name and then treating/displaying those as a single mesh would explain the strange combination of furled/full sails that you see in my illustration way at the top of this threat...

I'm using Bryce 6.1 btw and when I read that the requirements and testing are in B5, I assumed that I'm OK since I have a later version (Note to self: never assume).

I feel I owe, and hereby offer, a  public apolgy to Kaol. Some of my comment might be construed to  imply that the product text description and graphic presentations are less than honest. That was not my intention. All I wanted is that the product worked for me as I believed it to be advertised and as I believed it should work

Again, my heartfelt and sincere apology to Kaol. I said so at the beginning and I'll say it again - I like this model - and somehow or other I'm going to make it work for me...

Speaking of which (and this is directed at dan whiteside as much as anyone else) - If I can find and re-install my old version of Bryce 5 and then use that to import and save the Golden Hind model and, providing everything loads and functions as it should, can I then open that Bryce 5 file in Bryce 6.1 without loosing anything?

My sincere thanks to each and everyone for your interest and attempts to help and also to paklad for the history lesson(s)

W