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Riva’s mahogany makeover

As the glassfibre revolution gathered momentum companies like Chris Craft and Riva entered a transitional period, still producing vessels in mahogany but making them look like glassfibre so as not to appear behind the times.

The 40mph 1966 Riva Junior, billed as “the young people’s

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