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    EXTRAORDINARY BOATS

    Oct 08, 2020 4 minutes

    Paja is a 30ft carbon daysailer designed by Paolo Bua for famously innovative owner Jack Setton

    The appeal of many slim hulled designs lies in their traditional charm, but building an ultra-modern, super-skinny dayboat in 2020 is something else entirely.

    Paja is beyond slender, she is closer to a blade than a board, with a beam of just 1.76m (5ft 9in). Her dimensions most closely resemble the Valhalla whaleboats that legendary naval architect and sailor Uffa Fox used to sail almost a century ago (with their LOA of 9.3m/30ft 6in and a beam of 1.7m/5ft 7in), and which he praises in his book ‘The Crest of the Wave’.

    “Those who have not sailed in

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