FAIRLINE SQUADRON 68
When the covers come off the Squadron 68 at Cannes it will take its place at the summit of the Fairline range – a position occupied for so long by the evergreen 78. This new 68 now inherits that top spot, at least until the rumoured 82 comes along at some point in 2021. No pressure then.
The Squadron 68 may be 10ft shorter than the former flagship but the exterior styling, penned in conjunction by Alberto Mancini and Andrew Pope, who heads up Fairline’s in-house design team, demonstrates just how much boat design has changed since the 78 first hit the water. Glass dominates the boat’s profile, the saloon windows only broken by the GRP spears which thrust into their front end providing a visual link with the previous generations of Squadrons. The designers were conscious of the boat appearing top heavy so note the use of dark vinyl wrapping around the windscreen, along the flybridge supports and over the sculpted struts that support the main culprit for this potential top heaviness, the hardtop. Demand for protection over the flybridge is too high for Fairline to leave
