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These New Yacht Designs Bring the Spirit of Grand Touring to the Water
Designed to emulate a grand tourer sports car, the yachts have sleek lines and long ranges…

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FrontRunners October 2014 MACHINES AND GEAR
Space Ship Foster and Partners is known best for its unconventional architectural projects, including the under-construction Apple headquarters, which, because of its circular shape and mile-long circumference, has been likened to a giant spaceship. The British firm has also dabbled in boat design, creating vessels that are as distinctive as its buildings. It worked on […]
Palmer Johnson Launches Two New Yachts This Summer
The U.S. builder completes the second vessel in its PJ 170 line and the very first PJ 48 M…
Chartering Alloy Yachts’ 186-Foot Ketch Mondango3 This Summer
The recently completed sailing yacht will be cruising the South Pacific in the coming months…
Boating: Pace and Space
Two years ago, Finland’s Nautor’s Swan replaced its venerable fiberglass-hulled Swan 82 sailing yacht with the carbon-fiber-hulled Swan 80FD, a lighter 80-foot vessel with a flush deck—thus the FD designation. Now for sailors seeking a yacht with a greater emphasis on comfort, Nautor’s Swan has added the 80S to its Maxi collection of high-performance sailing […]
Boating: Breaking the Mold
The Turkish shipyard Vicem Yachts is one of the few major builders that still produce boats with hulls made entirely from mahogany. The cold-molding construction method required for such hulls is a labor-intensive process that involves coating layers of mahogany strips with epoxy laminate and bending them around a frame, thus creating a naturally insulated […]