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The wind scoop, how did we live without it?

Easily the best recent addition to Willow has been this wind scoop. I have been thinking about it for 3 years or so, perfected my design plans and cranked out two of them in one day, the second going onto "Tara." The wind hits one of the quadrants, gets forced down into the tapered nozzle where it accelerates and wham, instant wind tunnell. Another very useful feature I had not thought of is this: While one or two of the quadrants is shoving air down, the other one or two are sucking air up and out. I do not exagerate when I say it has changed our lives below. Ben and Nikki have completely rearranged their boat to maximize the benefit from this hurricane of redirected air.

We built them out of an old sail Tara had on board, using an old sewing machine we have on board. I will gladly build anyone their own custom sized scoop for about $200 dollars, just give me the dimesions.

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