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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.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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Zefiro (9 m) quando il foiling + l’elettrico diventano credibili

September 25

Al Salone Nautico Internazionale di Genova debutta Zefiro , progetto “ full foiling, full electric e full carbon ” nato dall’incontro fra design, ingegneria e cultura nautica.

Hybrid & electric Speed & performance Boat shows

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