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Legends Old and New

t’s been more than half a century since Capt. Robert Beebe launched his revolutionary 50-footer, , introducing the concept of the long-range offshore cruising powerboat. In 1975, having put more than 60,000 nautical miles’s hull, Beebe penned his seminal book , which nearly overnight became the bible for oceangoing short-handers worldwide.

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