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CHASING THE DREAM

The Barton & Gray Daychaser 48 is a boat that shouldn't exist. And that's not meant as a slight, it's just a stated fact, according to Barton & Gray co-founder Doug Gray, who helped dream up the project.

“We tried so, so hard not to build this boat,” he says with a chuckle. “We went to a bunch of different boatbuilders and said, ‘We want to buy 15 multi-million-dollar boats from you, and send them to the most important ports in the world and fill them with the most influential people in the world,’ and no one — not one of them — bought in. The yachting industry is really

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