super yachts 60million+
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Pan Pan Pan said:
I I also saw programs run at Christmas on how the super rich spend their money, and it seems that despite having billions, their lives are still riddled with angst, because if they have a yacht/car/mansion/jet etc it HAS to be the BEST in the world otherwise they feel they are a failure, and become miserable.
I'd take that with a very big pinch of salt.Boat International this month has a big article and interior photo's of Abramovich's Eclipse(absolutely stunning) and the designer said that when it was being built someone asked Abramovich is he was aware of the rumours that an even bigger yacht was under construction (which turned out to be Azzam). He said he wasn't and even if it was true he didn't care as he wasn't interested in having the biggest private yacht in the world.
Burwood said:
p1stonhead said:
£100m+ surely?
why, because of it's famous owner (who never saw it finished). It will probably sell for a fraction of its build cost given it's shockingly ugly lines (all imho).I've changed my mind about Motoryacht A - she was moored just outside Gustavia Port during this year's St Barths Bucket Regatta - pretty close to the start/finish line so had a good chance to see her up-close and from a few different angles.
Having always hated her from afar she actually started to grow on me after a few days, and quite a few of the crew were feeling the same way.
To stand out amongst the numerous big boats around St Barths is quite an achievement - she's certainly nowhere near as ungainly as her sail-boat stable mate and there's a strong sinister and purposeful air about her.
I was always hoping to spot Gru from 'Despicable Me' pointing an unfeasibly large and complicated ray-gun at us when we sailed past...
Having always hated her from afar she actually started to grow on me after a few days, and quite a few of the crew were feeling the same way.
To stand out amongst the numerous big boats around St Barths is quite an achievement - she's certainly nowhere near as ungainly as her sail-boat stable mate and there's a strong sinister and purposeful air about her.
I was always hoping to spot Gru from 'Despicable Me' pointing an unfeasibly large and complicated ray-gun at us when we sailed past...
BullyB said:
Steve_D said:
The fire had to have started on one of them so why did the other not just get the hell out. Surely there is crew on board at all times.
Steve
It takes us an hour to get our boat moving and that is with all the crew and some organisation.Steve
Minimum in port manning is just a few people and usually the people that know how to drive are the first ashore...
On a related note; what jackass designs a multi-million pound ship apparently without a fire suppression system worth a damn, especially with hi-fog so cheap now?
strudel said:
See Lagom or perhaps wabi-sabi. No doubt there are others.
Not to say if I suddenly found myself with a spare 10 million smackeroonies I wouldn't buy something most would consider very expensive, but the boat that impressed me most at the Southampton boat show last year was the Nordhavn 64, at only about 1.6million GBP. Anything more I don't need.
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Not usually a fan of that style boat but I'm liking that a lot. Looks a bargain too. ( relatively obviously)Not to say if I suddenly found myself with a spare 10 million smackeroonies I wouldn't buy something most would consider very expensive, but the boat that impressed me most at the Southampton boat show last year was the Nordhavn 64, at only about 1.6million GBP. Anything more I don't need.
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SpeckledJim said:
Aesthetic merit aside, it makes everything else look predictable and unimaginative. Job done.
Predictable as in it should have a certain shape to actually have exterior terraced space to actually feel the ocean. Oh ok.Even in their most ridiculous willy-waving, they are conformist and nervous and conservative.
Surely they are 90% for showing off. 'A' is very good for that. And it's not as if a week on A is going to feel unpleasant.
It is grotesquely compromised in order to achieve a very specific form. You've got to be enormously rich/brave/wanton to do that, and the boat absolutely screams 'wantonly indulgent'.
Davey S2 said:
SpeckledJim said:
'wantonly indulgent'.
Doesn't every Superyacht?(And a lot of scorn, granted, but it stands-out a mile and that was the idea).
"Everyone else needed their £100m yacht to be practical and sensible. Not me."
In car terms it's a Lamborghini Egoista in a car park full of LWB S600s.
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