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Personally, I was never a huge fan of Prince. At the age of nine I was made to watch Purple Rain and I recall even at that tender age thinking he seemed a bit of a tool. Anyway, that’s not important – some years later I warmed to him when he switched from being Prince to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, then The Artist, then to just an unpronounceable symbol. Anyway, this is an unwieldy method of introducing the Beneteau First 27 or – as I like to refer to it – the yacht formerly known as the Seascape 27. Because that is exactly what it is.

Does anyone remember the Seascape 27? You jolly well should because it was only launched in 2012 and it always struck me as a really clever and well thought out yacht.

Seascape is a Slovenian company that teamed up with French designer Sam Manuard to develop what

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