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BENETEAU FIRST 14

started out this test thinking I would seriously have to file a complaint with management. As in: I’m getting too old to be assigned boats like this to review. At first glance the new Beneteau First 14—with its sexy reverse bow, super-long retractable sprit and expansive asymmetric spinnaker—looks like it wants a young wanna-be Olympian with six-pack abs jumping around its cockpit fighting to keep it

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