Power & Motoryacht

Brutalism School

t struck me at 2:35 p.m. while walking the docks at the 2020 Miami boat show last February: More and more production boats are brutally ugly. See, it was at that moment that I ran into a longtime friend who’s a respected yachting reporter. We got to talking about yacht design because she was concerned that boats are getting uglier. “What in

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