Boat International

The flying Spyder

If you’re one of those readers who keeps their copies of BOAT International in a neat and orderly fashion, scan your shelves and select the September 2019 issue. In it you’ll find my account of meeting the lean, mean flying machine that is the Axopar Brabus 500. I was tasked to write about it for these very Wild Water pages and, with the sea broiling off the Poole coast in the UK, where our test took place, wild it certainly was.

Fast forward through a period we’d all rather forget and on to summer 2021. Almost two years later to the day I’m back on an Axopar, this time it’s the 22 Spyder,

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