The world’s largest boatbuilder knows a thing or two about hardtop sports cruisers, and the new Beneteau GT45 is a distillation of much hard-won wisdom in this fiercely competitive sector.

All the accepted design tropes so crucial to economic high-volume production are there, from the huge saloon windows and the ‘Pershing curve’ of the superstructure (does anyone call it that any more?), to the gigantic sunroof, the metallic grey ‘fashion plates’ affixed to the sides (even Beneteau puts them in quotes) and the extensively glazed topsides.
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