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EXTRAORDINARY BOATS

The Flax 27 is a Judel/Vrolijk-designed daysailer built using flax and linseed resin

On the face of it there was nothing unusual about the Flax 27. Set in a corner of one of the 17 halls at Boot Düsseldorf at the beginning of this year, the 27ft cruising dayboat may well have been elegant and beautifully finished, but at the word’s biggest watersports show there were plenty of others like her.

So, as the visitors strolled past, her elegant lines, with a modern plumb bow and a classically styled counter stern, weren’t always sufficient to cause them to

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