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Third Time’s the Charm
By Alan Harperphotos by Klaus... | Posted October 2008 | Add a CommentIf you’re familiar with Monaco, you’ll also be familiar-unless you’re very rich or very lucky-with the neck ache you get from looking up at those enormous motoryachts. Last time I was in town, I got lucky: I was looking down. Lrssen's Martha AnnOn one side there was Mohammed Al-Fayed’s 208-foot Sokar. Beyond her was Wedge
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Rough Road, Smooth Ride
By Alan Harper | Posted April 2008 | Add a CommentMy notebook was almost full. Cannes does that. Not being in films, I hardly ever visit the town except at boat-show time, in September. In the last few years, the show has gotten bigger, more international, and more important than ever. Boatyards from all over Europe are increasingly seeing it as the crucial launch platform for new models. For a photojournalist like me, that means bouts of
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Master Class
By Alan Harper | Posted January 2008 | Add a CommentPeter de Savary is a larger-than-life entrepreneur with a cigar to match. Well-known in his native UK, even after all these years, as the man behind his 1983 America's Cup challenge—the plucky Brits lost but put up a good fight, which to the British psyche is better than winning—he is a yachtsman through and through.Globe
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S Is for Spectacular
By Alan Harper | Posted October 2007 | Add a CommentWhen you pack your bag for a trip to Dubai, it's just as well to include, along with your sunglasses, passport, and gold credit card, some suspension of disbelief. Nothing quite prepares you for the place that a generation ago was little more than a few mud-brick dwellings and some concrete warehouses lining the now-famous dhow-packed creek.Today it is one
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Slippery When Wet
By Alan Harperphotos by Tom Benn | Posted July 2007 | Add a CommentIf you've ever seen anything like this before, you've probably been doing something you shouldn't: either snooping round a couple of select UK shipyards or attracting the attention of British special forces.But this one isn't secret. It's the first motoryacht built using "very slender vessel" (hence her VSV designation) wave-piercing principles and a patented hull shape drawn by naval
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Big Shot
By Alan Harper | Posted May 2007 | Add a CommentIt had been one of the most eagerly anticipated launches of recent years, the subject of more rumor and speculation than a Hollywood scandal. But when the London Boat Show opened in January, there she was. Finally, large as life and twice as opulent: Sunseeker's latest, the 37M Trideck Yacht, all 121 feet and 180 tons of her. Immediately the company's previous flagship, the 105-foot flying-bridge
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By Alan Harper | Posted October 2006 | Add a CommentI was down in the eerie silence of the guest accommodation, taking notes, when a slight tapping noise broke my concentration. It was the chain of the window blind gently making contact with the woodwork, and now that my attention was drawn to it, there did indeed appear to be the faintest hint of a roll.Up on deck the motion was more noticeable, and in the cockpit the full effect of the
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Beautiful Lady, Gray Day
By Alan Harper | Posted June 2006 | Add a CommentThe Thames Estuary in winter is not necessarily a place you'd choose for a cruise. For many yachtsmen, even in summer it's a necessary evil: the strangely blank, slightly foreboding link between the river and the sea. Thousands of boats pass through every year. Local motoryachts based in the scenic upper reaches of the river make an annual pilgrimage downstream—from bucolic Henley,
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