Power & Motoryacht

SWEET SPOT

layers in the sport yacht market take heed: The game has changed. Pearl Yachts, a relatively new kid on the block, has quietly reinvented the way we should think about luxury cruising boats. The North American debut of the British builder’s Pearl 80 brings a new offering to the segment, essentially ditching the “sex sells” cliché in favor of a more well-rounded, space-centric take on the cruising lifestyle. flat’s not to say the Pearl 80 is without sex appeal. She’s got it in spades. It just wasn’t the first thing I noticed when I approached her—nor was it the second, which typically means a death sentence for this breed of boat. She’s anything but typical, though, and that’s by design.

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