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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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A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

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Daysailer im Vergleich: Leicht zu trailern oder schwer zu überholen?

11.08

Sechs Daysailer zwischen 8,50 und 10,05 Meter im Vergleich: Was Code 0.1, Domani S 32, Saffier SE 33 Life, Tofinou 9.7, Sunbeam 29.1 und BM 31 ClassicK unterscheidet.

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