Well at the moment I'm more of an expat, have a home here but I'm from Costa Mesa, and stay/work in Newport parts of the year.
After reading more through the aforementioned vaya builds thread, decided to go with the 55, as it sounds like it'd be better suited to a more upright stance.
Now the hard part - finding one. Have some feelers out, but if anyone has a frameset or a complete build in that size that they are looking to sell, certainly would be willing to consider a price, depending on the build (i.e. how much I'd wind up replacing).