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Farr 50 Pilot House

or too many years, pilothouse sailing yachts had a clunky look, with an oversized salon projecting well above the deck, seemingly attached as an afterthought to the otherwise clean lines of a capable ocean-going vessel. However, when Bruce Farr and his renowned crew of designers, naval architects and

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