Prestige M8 Walk-through and Review

Step aboard Prestige’s new M8 power catamaran with Senior Editor Chris Dixon in Trieste, Italy. This new yacht offers impressive space and fuel efficiency—and it’s flat out gorgeous too.

Step aboard Prestige’s new M8 power catamaran with Senior Editor Chris Dixon in Trieste, Italy. This new yacht offers impressive space and fuel efficiency—and it’s flat out gorgeous too.

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Chris Dixon

Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.

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