Palm Beach island was built by a man who arrived by ship and decided the whole coast was too ordinary. Henry Flagler ran a railroad down the shore, threw up two grand hotels, and the winter aristocracy followed. You cruise past the result.

The Lake Worth Lagoon runs the whole length of the island, calm and sheltered while the Atlantic pounds the other side. Few first-timers realise you can spend an entire charter in flat water — and still see the ocean.

Vanquish builds its hulls for people who cannot sit still — cold-moulded, deep-V, made to run hard offshore. The 58 is the one in this group that turns a simple run north into an event.

Princess has been building in Plymouth, England since the sixties, and the 65 is their answer to a simple question: how much yacht fits in 65 feet? Four cabins, a full beam, and not one wasted corner.