If you can get a hold of the January 2000 issue of EAA'S monthly membership magazine (Sport Aviation), you will find Dave Lind's article entitled: "Flying to Hawaii". Dave flew his Long EZ from Carlsbad, California to Kona, Hawaii and back. It's an excellent article.
My aspiration is also to circumnavigate the globe in my King Racer. Over the years I have read about many different composite canard type aircraft ditching, including the highly preventable, John Denver, tragedy. An example where a pilot must maintain control of the aircraft first (priority) and everything else becomes second priority. Based on all the ditchings I have read, John would have probably survived and would have drifted, if he maintained a controlled ditching. I've read about a few canards that submerged to the top longerons, but they never went to the bottom even with the front nose ripped off (foam cone and nose wheel) after the nose wheel came into contact with the water. The pilot had some lacerations to his legs. He was picked up by some boats. I read about a Velocity, which was incorrectly loaded with an extra fuel tank (if I recall correctly) going into a flat spin off the coast of Florida. The plane, amazingly, wasn't damaged when it ended up in the drink, and drifted to shore.
If you're looking for a second plane, I plan to make the trip, in possibly 5 years (realistically 8 yrs - when I retire at 55). I live in B.C., Canada and plan to fly up through Alaska and the Bering Strait. I was scouting out a route this summer in my Cessna 150. I made a solo flight to the Arctic Ocean (3600 miles, 27 airports and 50 hrs of flying). I have been in contact with some Russian pilots, also, about fuel, etc. http://www.reaa.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=english_talk . I also have a pilot friend in Fairbanks Alaska who I have been in contact with, in regards to my plans.
Tom