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EXTRAORDINARY BOATS

The Ecoracer 25 is the first modern recyclable sportsboat, an ORC winner which could help transform end-of-life fibreglass composites

This heartening story involves a crew of Italian sailing friends, who fostered a desire to do something different, to make a change. The fact that this Ecoracer ‘garage project’ has met with award-winning success is due to it using innovative sustainable materials which it then proved can work in a race-winning shape.

Arguably above that though, is the notion that it has taken a small startup to show the way forward and to shine a light on the dark and all-to-often brushed aside

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