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    Believe the Hype

    Aug 06, 2019 4 minutes
    story KIM KAVIN

    For Capt. Jackson Willett, the moment of truth came as he rounded Washington state’s Cape Flattery and turned hard to port, into the open Pacific Ocean.

    Willett owns a US Powerboating School in California, and he’d heard all the rumors about the boat he was aboard: The Beneteau Swift Trawler is no match for a true displacement trawler. It has a planing hull. It’s light. It’s French—what do those Europeans know about the Pacific Northwest, anyway? And to boot, this particular boat was Hull No. 1 of the Swift Trawler 47, not to mention the first Swift Trawler that Willett had ever driven.

    He’d felt all

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