 She had a rudder separate from her keel to reduce wetted surface and improve steering.Stephens had previously designed separate rudders on a number of increasingly large ocean racers of the 1960s, most notably Thomas Watson's state of the art "Palawan III", before using it successfully on the "Intrepid" in 1967.After alterations by Britton Chance, Jr., she won the America's Cup again in 1970.