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I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

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— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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Chief Designer Jeff Leishman’s on Nordhavn’s Better Boats

August 11

The story of the Nordhavn 100 is really the story of somebody wanting a little more boat than the N96. Which is actually the story of somebody wanting slightly more boat than the N86.

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