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  • n  a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost

  • The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of .
  • Instead of a single rudder set on the keel, she has twoa main steering rudder set well aft on a long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short .
  • A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet.

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