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Custom Line’s dramatic new 120 isn’t quite the biggest yacht that the shipyard has ever built but it’s not far off. That accolade belongs to the Custom Line 128, a 2003 model that stretched the tape to a shade under 130ft (39.6m). It has been out of production for some years.

In fact the Custom Line model that had most influence on the development of the Ancona shipyard’s latest flagship is the 124 – not because it showed the way forward, but because it didn’t. The 124, a sleek, 27-knot greyhound of a vessel with a markedly military aspect to its profile, as if all it needed before joining the navy of some Middle Eastern potentate was a coat of dazzle camouflage, provided a perfect proof of the law

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