To the untrained eye, a sailboat is a sailboat; they all look pretty much the same. Even to an experience sailor, it can be difficult if not impossible to truly judge how a particular design will perform just examining it at the dock. Nonetheless, when it comes to boat – sailboat in particular – soon as you cast off the lines, it becomes immediately apparent that no two are the same, even if they appear superficially similar. Some for whatever reason, don’t feel quite right. Others, through some strange alchemy, just work. The Jeanneau 54 is an excellent example of the latter.
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