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Intuition: RBF Sailing Yacht “Intuition”:
"With my grandson, I have been grooming her for the New York Yacht Club races and have ordered several new sails, including a star-cut reaching spinnaker. I am installing one of the new streamlined rod headstay foils. This entails having all her headsails retailed to eliminate the snap hooks and receive instead the corded lead (luff)edge which feeds into the foil’s bottom slot. This makes possible a sail-changing process much swifter than with snap hooks. The boats that have tried the new rotatable foil in the On-ton Internationals in Australia and in last winter’s Southern Ocean Racing Circuit found the streamlined foil providing both sharper windward pointing and increased windward speed.
"This year’s grooming of ‘Intuition’ also includes having all halyards rigged inside the mast. I have, as usual, incorporated all newly discovered ways for producing front-rank contender performance.
“I would not sell her to anyone who did not appreciate her. And I would only sell her in the pink of condition. . . .”
