Superyacht International — January 2018

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How important is the role of technology in
terms of materials and in the building of the
needed special frames and struts?
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Was your creativity limited by the structural re-

strictions encountered in yacht building?

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Did you request things of Tankoa which were

initially thought as being not doable?

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