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When I started reviewing yachts 14 years ago, my late mentor, yachting journalist Richard Thiel, gave me a piece of advice: “Never let them see your tongue loll out of your mouth.” It's wisdom that has served me well as I’ve crawled over nine-figure superyachts and loud go-fasts. But every once in a while I come across a boat that makes it difficult to keep my enthusiasm under my hat. Nautor Swan’s Swan Shadow is one of them.

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