The entry-level Grand Banks flybridge may look quite traditional but its high-tech hull design and construction means it behaves very differently, as we found out on its first UK test

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Tim Innes reflects on his first year with his all-new Windy SR40

At heart the Azimut 82 is a great big floating pleasure palace, from the extensive real estate of that broad bow, complete with roomy sunbed and sociable sofa arrangement, to the versatile appointment

Nick Burnham: Theoretically, in very extreme conditions you could position yourself stern-to a large breaking wave and then stop the boat, but why would you?

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