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WORLD'S COOLEST YACHTS
Yachting World
|November 2021
WE ASK TOP SAILORS AND MARINE INDUSTRY GURUS TO CHOOSE THE COOLEST AND MOST INNOVATIVE YACHTS OF OUR TIMES
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THIERRY MARTINEZ NOMINATES B&Q/CASTORAMA
“For me ‘Moby’, as Ellen MacArthur’s trimaran was known, is one of the coolest yachts. In this photograph Ellen is 100 miles off the finish line at Ushant just before she broke her solo round the world record in 2005. I wasn’t working for Ellen at this time, but I had followed her from the boat’s launch in Sydney to the end of successful broken record.
This story is from the November 2021 edition of Yachting World.
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