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Hylas 57 by George Day
IT WAS A FINE, WARM MARCH AFternoon earlier this year when I had a chance to visit with Peggy Huang and David Crafa aboard the brand new Hylas 57 near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Peggy and her brother Andy run the family boat building business Queen Long, in Taiwan, where Hylas yachts have been built from the inception of the brand. David is a businessman, a Hylas owner and the lucky guy who got Peggy to say “yes.” The new 57, designed by Bill Dixon, is a collaboration of the three as they set the stage for the next generation of Hylas cruising boats.
towers above almost all the others in the marina. From the quay, the new 57-footer looked even larger and I wouldn’t have been surprised if Peggy let slip that it was really 62 feet long. But the look of largeness is not from length but from the 17-feeet of beam, the broad transom, the vast hybrid cockpit with a hardtop over it and the sexy low profile cabintop bordered by wide side decks.
Stepping aboard, the afterdeck seemed really spacious and has two small seats in the corners of the stern rails. The twin helms, which drive the design’s twin rudders, are The 57 wasn’t hard to find in Harbour at deck level and quite far outboard so you Town Marina in Dania since it’s mast have great visibility forward and of both 32
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