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So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

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— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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Perché i catamarani sono più veloci dei monoscafi?

10.22

Che i catamarani fossero più veloci dei monoscafi fu subito chiaro all’America’s Cup del 1988, quando il catamarano di 18 metri americano Stars & Stripes umiliò il mastodontico monoscafo di 37 metri…

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Perché i catamarani sono più veloci dei monoscafi?

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