super yachts 60million+

[Quattromaster]

Luca Brazzi said:

This was cruising slowly past Greenwich yesterday (Monday).

Chap at work is asking....name, owner, length, value ?

This thread really is the ONLY place to ask.



Cheers in advance.

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Multi-million-pound-super-yacht-owned-billionaire/story-29254204-detail/story.html

[Burwood]

the only interesting fact is the owner sold his dealerships to Warren Buffets company 18 months ago for billions hence the yacht treat. Shame it's ugly but well done

[p1stonhead]

Apologies for the daily mail but how fking stupid does this look!

I mean, it would be quite interesting if it worked but it still looks ridiculous.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Edited by p1stonhead on Thursday 12th May 13:43

[dudleybloke]

p1stonhead said:

Apologies for the daily mail but how fking stupid does this look!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Inspired by a coat hook?

[kiethton]

dudleybloke said:

p1stonhead said:

Apologies for the daily mail but how fking stupid does this look!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Inspired by a coat hook?

Looks like Captain Kirk's ship turned upside down!

[AMD87]

Shouldn't the keel be on the bottom?

[Chris Stott]

Saw this in Miami a couple of weeks ago... moored up in downtown Brickell.



Don't know if it's 60M+, but looked pretty expensive to me!

[tuffer]

Pesty said:

Ann G please

I will go Halfers with you.

[hidetheelephants]

p1stonhead said:

Apologies for the daily mail but how fking stupid does this look!

I mean, it would be quite interesting if it worked but it still looks ridiculous.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Edited by p1stonhead on Thursday 12th May 13:43

I wonder if they have considered that when there's a light breeze at sealevel there's often a howling gale 40m up. Infinity pools on a boat is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever read.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Thursday 12th May 15:37

[FourWheelDrift]

It looks like a shoe.

[markmullen]

Horrific windage, CoG miles above where it should be, horrible angle of vanishing stability, pool unusable unless flat calm and windless.

Still, it's never going to be built in that form, and it's got the designer's name in the national press which it wouldn't if he'd designed a traditional superyacht. It's a bit like expecting to buy the ridiculous gowns designers make for catwalk shows yet their main trade is in far more sensible outfits.

[SeeFive]

A number of big yachts are now designed with a straight bow. How does this affect the ride?

I am familiar with deadrise and ride consequences along the hull combined with beam and engine power, but some of these boats look odd - Steve Jobs' thing being one and the Bennetti above taking similar cues from that. Yacht A takes it to another level with its submarine bow look.

Back in the early 1900s many steamers had that straight bow, then it went away. Can someone tell a numpty why has it come back in yacht design today?

Sadly I have not been in a position to try one out

[hidetheelephants]

A plumb stem softens pitch acceleration giving an easier ride although you pay for that with reduced seakeeping in bad weather and greater wetness, as stem rake and flare gives a rapid rise in buoyancy and keeps spray down. Other than the aesthetic another effect is reducing overall length which can be important in some harbours and under some mooring fee tariffs.

[SeeFive]

Thank you. Interesting. I will do some more reading on it now I know what to search for.

[Davey S2]

Chris Stott said:

Saw this in Miami a couple of weeks ago... moored up in downtown Brickell.



Don't know if it's 60M+, but looked pretty expensive to me!

This is Nick Candy's yacht. 11/11 is apparently his daughters birthday.

[Chris Stott]

Davey S2 said:

Chris Stott said:

Saw this in Miami a couple of weeks ago... moored up in downtown Brickell.



Don't know if it's 60M+, but looked pretty expensive to me!

This is Nick Candy's yacht. 11/11 is apparently his daughters birthday.

Did a bit of Googling, and it says the yacht cost c.£26m... I'm not really up on values, but that seems pretty low for something of that size?

[Davey S2]

I suspect that only the owner and the yard know the true cost.

I don't think Benetti are seen as being in the top rank of yacht builders though and Candy bought it because the original buyer bailed out 2/3rds into the build meaning he could get a new boat in a fraction of the time it would take to do from scratch.

[Mike Random]

PW said:

Davey S2 said:

I suspect that only the owner and the yard know the true cost.

You can remove the yard from that.

Typically you have the Designers and Naval Architects with a price to design a yacht, a Yard with a price to build a yacht, you have an Interior Builder with a price to produce the interior, then a range of things that will be bought directly by the owner, plus potentially other various other sub-contractors or specialists for things like A/V installation, lighting etc then there are the brokers, & owner's team managing the project, then crew...

Then of course in some cases things might end up costing more/less than was originally anticipated when a contract was signed, and what was agreed may not be the same as what was paid, depending how smoothly things go.

There will be a very small number of people who may know part of what that list adds up to, and an even smaller number of people who know the true final total amount. The Daily Mail isn't on that list.

Summed up perfectly,

[Steve_D]

Mike Random said:

PW said:

Davey S2 said:

I suspect that only the owner and the yard know the true cost.

You can remove the yard from that.

Typically you have the Designers and Naval Architects with a price to design a yacht, a Yard with a price to build a yacht, you have an Interior Builder with a price to produce the interior, then a range of things that will be bought directly by the owner, plus potentially other various other sub-contractors or specialists for things like A/V installation, lighting etc then there are the brokers, & owner's team managing the project, then crew...

Then of course in some cases things might end up costing more/less than was originally anticipated when a contract was signed, and what was agreed may not be the same as what was paid, depending how smoothly things go.

There will be a very small number of people who may know part of what that list adds up to, and an even smaller number of people who know the true final total amount. The Daily Mail isn't on that list.

Summed up perfectly,

I suspect even some owners don't know. Possibly because they don't care.

Steve

[Prawo Jazdy]

I've just seen a super yacht called 'Dilbar' in Barcelona. It caught my eye at first because it's the colour of a 90's Citizen printer against the usual bright white. Then, as more of it became visible, that thought gave way to "That's massive!". Apparently, by some measure, it's the largest in the world. It is owned by a Russian oligarch, but the size of the thing had me wondering if it was a mini cruise ship to start with.

I'd pay a small fee to womble around inside for a few minutes just to see what the interior of such a vessel is filled with, but I'm guessing he doesn't need the money!