@ RobynsVeil,

Well here she is, my new luxury yacht, the "Flying Dustman"! Eat yer heart out RobynsVeil!

Actually this is a proof of concept model, to test my ideas about welding and Point At. She is mostly made out of poser primitives, The hull is a box prop, the other parts are cylinders, the only part that isn't a Poser primitive is the rope  which I made in Metasequoia (making a cylinder is amount the limit of my modelling skills).

The idea seems to work quite well within its limitations. The limitations are that although the rope will stretch as far as you like, it will not bend. As a result it looks fine hard to the wind, not too bad on a reach, but totally unnatural on a run.

I have just seen svdl's post, and imagine he has done something really brilliant as usual, but you might still like to take a look at my file, as at least it has the virtue of relative simplicity. If you want to take a look, IM me your email address.