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Marino ABP 27 Tender
Marino wowed us with its left-field
cruiser a few years ago. With novel features, such as an aft bulkhead that slid
below the cockpit floor at the push of a button, it was futuristic and slightly
mad. Now it has lopped the top off it completely, fitted it with a high
carbon-fibre-look windscreen frame and a massive pantograph wiper, slotted a
neat two-berth cuddy under the walkaround deck and installed a minimalist 2+2 centre cockpit. Of course, the trademark clever touches are
still there. The front double seat is on a track in order to slide fore and
aft, and both seat backrests reverse to create two facing seats or extend the
sunpad over the well-insulated engine; at 28 knots the water rushing past is louder than the noise of the motor.
You can’t move for teak, it adorns the
cockpit sole, side decks, gunwale cappings, even the steering wheel. The look
is futuristic and minimalist, if there had been boats in ‘Blade runner’, they
would have looked like this. However, a four-person 27-footer is perhaps a
touch extravagant, especially as you would never be short of friends with a
boat like this.
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Price from £99,950
LOA 26ft 11in (8.2m)
Beam 9ft 6in (2.9m)
Engine Volvo Penta D4-260
diesel sterndrive
Max speed 36 knots
Enquiries www.wessexmarine.co.uk
