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DESIGN HOW TO CALL THEM? STRANGE BOATS BY GLIDER YACHTS

You might ask yourselves what on earth are these strange floating objects which look half way between a space ship and a huge dragonfly? Should we still refer to them as boats? Or do we want to call them gliders as the name Glider Yachts suggests? Incidentally it is the name of the British firm producing them.

Please yourselves. In any case in spite of the way they look they’d puzzle anyone, since these strange objects are not a mere exercise in styling nor are they mere designers’ fantasies set on being noticed. As you can clearly see from the pictures printed herein, Glider Yachts are real, they float and sail!

In actual fact Managing Director and designer at Glider Yachts Rob McCall launched his first Glider Yacht the Super Sports 18 (SS18) a couple of years

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