Cruising Helmsman

Putting the boot in

WHEN a yacht builder takes a new build to the Boot Dusseldorf boat show, they have a good reason to call it a ‘world premiere’.

Boot Dusseldorf calls itself the world’s largest boat show and I am certain that there is no other boat show that could dare to disagree. Open for nine days within 17 exhibition halls across a massive showground park, I have

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