HOT Magazine HOT Magazine, Issue 12 Volume 4 | Page 69

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Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than
by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails, Explore, Dream, Discover.

”

-Mark Twain

Sail or power, keelboats or multi-hull,
riverboat or blue-water vessels are all
present.
Boats ranged in length from barely
1 meter, (the edgy, ‘must-have’ diving
accouterment, ‘Seabob’ at 1.152m,) to
the 41m flagship, the glamorous, Ocean
Emerald super-yacht, (which plies by
charter from Pattaya or Phuket).
Potential buyers were spoiled for
choice. Famous and venerable boat-

building brands (e.g. Azimut of Italiandesign; Princess of British-origin, or
Beneteau of France) had on display one
or more, single-hull luxury craft, from
catalogues with designs from 40 to over
100 feet in length.
Locally produced, Austhai Marine
exhibited an innovative, multi-hull,
passenger vessel; one of their series
ranging from 8m and 18m. New entrant
for 2015, South Africa’s Leopard
specializes in a range of impressive, blue-

water capable catamarans, from 40 to 88
feet. Thailand’s Bakri-Cono shipyards
delivers very competitively priced multihulls, including the ‘green’ Heliotrope
48, with novel solar panels contributing
to up to 7Kw of power for electric
running.
Numerous other fascinating exhibits
included powerboats, Sea-doo’s, boating
accessories, accouterments and highquality paraphernalia.

December 15 - January 15 , 2016

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