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    STRONGER, FASTER, FARTHER

    Mar 19, 2019 4 minutes
    BY PHIL FRIEDMAN

    Tony Fleming, the founder and driving force behind Fleming Yachts, closes his personal memoir, Riding the Tide, with a clarion call: “Aim high, stay focused, and never give up!”

    If the boats he builds are any indication, Fleming lives by this mantra. Rarely is greatness accomplished in a single quantum jump. An ascent to excellence almost always involves numerous small steps. And that principle could not be writ more clearly than in the latest version of the Fleming 78.

    The first Fleming 78, introduced in 2010, was a natural evolution of the company’s 75, which had, at that point, been the flagship of

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