Yachting USA — February 2018

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EXPERIENCE FAIRLINE TARGA 63 GTO

British builder, an Italian designer and a Dutch engineering

fi rm? One heck of a collaboration known as the Fairline Targa

63 GTO. ¶ GTO usually means an open-style boat without an

after bulkhead, while GT depicts a closed-style craft. Fairline

brings both attributes together in this model, with an after

bulkhead that has a glass door and window. When the door

slides sideways and overlaps the window, the combination

disappears into a subcompartment, thus creating an open

yacht. ¶ Italian designer Alberto Mancini is responsible for the

63 GTO’s sweeping lines and interior spaces. With inspiration

from the mega-yacht fi eld, Mancini conceptualized the future

look of the Targa brand, carrying the heritage, history and family

feeling of Fairline into a new dimension. Alongside Fairline’s

in-house design team, headed by Andrew Pope and Dutch naval

architects Vripack, Mancini drew the 63 GTO from a blank slate,

creating, as he puts it, “a new era” for the brand and builder.

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