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Udo J. Vetter was getting toward retirement age when he decided that he wanted to sail around the world. Then, he says, he had a vision: “One day I woke up aboard a plastic charter boat, looked outside and there she was: a Perini Navi.”

That boat was , sistership of the, which the German entrepreneur and pharmaceutical executive now owns. She became his first large yacht in 2016, after a lifetime of sailing and owning smaller vessels.

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