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I want to share something about our reviews…
About 3 months before I started reading HTML for Dummies, with a far-fetched idea (at the time) of using the Internet for something other than porn, I was walking the docks of the 2002 Ft. Laud. Boat Show with one of my oldest friends. This is a gent who could buy any boat at Bahia Mar, with money leftover for another one, twice the size.
At the time, he had a Burger and was ready to step up. There was just one thing stopping him… the resistance he ran into while trying to view certain boats. I will say this because it needs to be said… builders who run interference with models whose beauty is only exceeded by their stupidity… deserve to have no customers. Nowhere is this scenario more prevalent than with the Italian production boats. It’s so bad… I have all but stopped trying to get information about their boats while attending the shows. Don’t believe me? When was the last time you saw a YF review on the same?
Returning to subject… getting onboard the really big boats is akin to getting a test drive in a Bugatti Veyron. Unless your mug is gracing the cover at newsstands, you better stick to driving that Honda, or Hatteras. Whichever fits? And here in the lies the basis for the original concept behind YachtForums, to actually get onboard the boat… without having to be a market maker for Merrill Lynch!
In our reviews, the sequence of images actually follows our footsteps. If any of you read the editorial (you don’t actually read this stuff, do you?), we try to convey the feel and the texture too. Darn hard to put into words, but until computers can emit scents; it’s about the best way to smell the salt in the air.
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