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Swedish brothers, Lars and Henrik Peterson, own and run one of the world’s most prolific RIB businesses. They shift a lot of boats and they talk to a lot of boaters so they understand what their RIB customers want. And perversely, what they appear to want is not a RIB at all. It’s a stable, high-volume open sports boat with outstanding sea manners and a confidence-inspiring wraparound fender to take the stress out of close-quarters work. So the Peterson brothers set about building it. Under development since 2016, in close collaboration with the alchemic minds at Mannerfelt Design, their solution has now landed in the UK.
THE IRON BOATS USP
The basic idea is simple. You take a hard sports boat with a high-performance hull and wrap it in a thick rubber fender that lends it the style of a RIB while providing a more spacious cockpit and uprated impact resistance.
