How about from now on the next person to do it is the first one to ask to do it whether by PM or posting, hands down? Otherwise this thing will happen everytime. Also I'm fine with ghost doing it.
Boats are in no way dead, most of them still work fine, but one thing is that structural intakes were reduced to 8 m/s tolerance killing off some designs, mainly seaplanes.
By Harv's orginal goals that he set when he first developed KSP it would be more than complete. However, currently it is still pretty buggy and lcks some features, so I would say 70-80.