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Better Together

here is no question that the word “boaters” encompasses a lot of different people who love a lot of different things about being on the water., the custom refitted power cat that a husband designed for his wife after she became confined to a wheelchair (p.48), with , the world’s largest racing trimaran designed to break the around-the-world speed record (p.40). Both are purpose-built boats refitted by their owners to follow dreams, but I’m having trouble thinking of two more dissimilar multihulls, unless maybe you add a dinghy to the mix.

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