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    Absolute DICHOTOMY

    Nov 13, 2018 6 minutes
    BY DANIEL HARDING JR.

    We tear through mile after mile of well-manicured farmland and fields. We’re more than 70 miles from the sea as we pass a mountain of hay. That’s the last straw. I pull out my phone to check our location on Google Maps. Amazingly, it says we’re still headed in the right direction—and only a few miles from the Absolute Yachts factory in Podenzano, Italy.

    My colleague, Elena, and I join a contingent of 30-plus editors from around the world who have descended upon the sprawling corporate park in the middle of farm country to meet the newest member of the Absolute family, the Navetta 48. A litany of accents, cultures and customs are blended together as we take our seats in elementary school-sized desks for an obligatory press conference. I’ll give you the SparkNotes: In the last seven years the builder with 250 employees has launched 19 completely new yachts, five

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