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| Here’s a wonderful letter from Raul Barbieri in Italy who is the happy owner of ‘Alice ‘ a Tyee 14 sailing model. After seeing the beautiful pictures he sent I think that a nice summer holiday in Italy would be a truly good thing for the soul. Dear Marie and Andrea We have just returned from a splendid holiday to the Isle of Elba on Alice. We sailed and rowed along the coast for nearly a month, and sometimes even used the motor. Alice is unbeatable for rowing. Everywhere we went Alice received enthusiastic compliments. Alice has a wide forepeak that we made great use of and it confirmed our correct choice of boat. Alice is beautiful and her harmonious and classic lines have a fascination that is lacking in modern boats. Looking at Alice one can understand the care and love that went into her making: the apparent simplicity of detail denotes careful study to identify simple and perfect solutions, the working, both of the glass fiber and of the wooden parts, has a truly amazing finish. We sailed with only the mainsail, without using the jib, because we didn’t know where to make fast its sheets. The ideal solution would be to fit a cam jam cleats on each side… could you help us and indicate how and where to mount them? (This has since been done - Harold) Under the mainsail Alice proved well balanced and more confident than we expected… only, sometimes, we had some difficulty in tacking… occasionally we had to intervene with the oars… not wonderful, but it worked. We really appreciated the very soft sheets. We are also very pleased with the Sunbrella Rudder Bag and Boom Cover… they are very well made and the plum colour together with sea blue and the white of the hull is truly outstanding. Thank you and your staff for having built Alice so well. Best regards Raul        |
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