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BRONZED BEAUTY

It’s one heck of a tender, and that’s originally how the Invictus TT 280 was conceived — as a luxury tender to superyachts and a high-end dayboat for zipping between glamorous anchorages in the Mediterranean.

It’s fitting, then, that this particular vessel spends part of its life running crew to and from the owner’s racing yacht down at Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Here, the enviable beachside properties of Melbourne’s jetsetters form an appropriate backdrop for this Italian-built style icon whose striking metallic bronze and cream hull colours turn heads along the coast.

Those glittering bronze topsides look incredible as the subtly curved hull refracts the sun off the water and if this delicate interplay of light doesn’t catch your eye, the profile sure will.

“It should come as no surprise to hear this Italian-built dayboat is supremely effective at delivering a relaxing day on the

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