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"Lost Soul"

Our Leisure Furl booms make our sailing wonderful. Jody and I can now handle our 45,000lb boat all by ourselves. My only question was why did I wait so long to do this?

Bob Bitchin

Publisher and owner of Latitudes & Attitudes magazine

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Dear Bill,

I wanted to write you a thank you note for the products we have on our 2006 Catalina 440. Primarily I wanted to let you know how the leisure furl has worked over our now 14,500 mile journey which includes sailing through the Roaring Forties of the southern Pacific off the Chilean coast.

The option to have a Leisure furl was one primarily of cost in the beginning, but now we see this as a safety feature not a convenience or performance option. While the fully battened main does make the boat sail better under all conditions the biggest advantage is being able to reef quickly and easily. Our boat carries a 3 year old and a 6 year old which means there is only one person driving the boat most of the time. In gale force winds we can reduce sail, maintain speed and reduce heal keeping everyone smiling during our more than 50 overnight sails in the past 18 months.

All things on boat break, but since Tony did his tune up on our rig we our Leisure furl has worked flawlessly in all conditions. One of the advantages we did not anticipate was the wear on our mainsail. Our mainsail looks near new and with very little wear on the stitching despite the fact this sail has been up and down hundreds of times. Surprises like this are always welcome as we are a budget oriented sailing family.

Thank you for all your efforts to make this affordable. I think most sailors think of this system as only for the Hylas, Morris', Hinkley's, but it's not just for show, it really works even 2200 miles offshore when things have to work. Our 'price point' point Catalina is the envy of all the Swan's and Halberg Rossy's we have run into here in southern Chile who look at our rig with a quite awe. Little do they know it's a bargain.

We have a big year coming up, 9,400 more miles by December 1st. I'm sure we will have lots of things to fix, but we are confident that our Leisure Furl system will work great no matter what mother nature has to throw at us.

Best Regards,

Glenn Maddox, S/V Red Thread, Catalina 440 #33

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