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Steering and rudders:As mentioned earlier, the spade rudders are free hanging and are operated hydraulicallythrough a ‘HyDrive’ pump situated below the central helm position. They are relatively easyto remove and replace whilst the boat is in the water.There is an emergency steering tiller located in a saloon locker which I have fitted and triedbut never had to use in a real situation.The steering system is manual and simple, the hydraulic pump is leak free and there are spareseals for the rams.Sails:One mainsail in heavy ‘cruising’ Dacron with 3 reef points and a double leech. It is fullybattened and each reef point is fitted with a turning block to avoid chafe on the reef lines. Itwas renewed by Rolly Tasker in 2009. The reef lines and halyard are all spectra and thehalyard is a double whip. The batten cars are all Harken as are all the various winches andrunning gear. The sail cover is blue and fitted with ‘lazyjacks’.One headsail in heavy cruising Dacron fitted to a ‘Profurl’ roller reefing furler, the sail wasrenewed in 2010, again this is fitted with a spectra halyard. The leech is foam lined and thesolar stop is coloured white.One ‘screecher’ this sail is original and coloured blue with white solar stop. It is not a‘reefable’ sail so “all in or all out” it furls on its own luffline using a ‘Profurl’ furler. This is amagic sail and in 16 knts of breeze we have managed 10-12 knts boat speed with this sailalone. Again, the halyard is spectra.One unused and ‘as new’ storm jib coloured bright rescue pink/red. This has its own spectrahalyard and there are separate lead blocks for the sheets back to the cockpit.Mast:The mast and boom are of carbon fibre construction manufactured by ‘Fibrespar’ and the stepis fixed. The mast is a 7/8 fractional rig, 17.5m long with a single set of spreaders and the