I name this ship.... Oopps!

[Asterix]

New launch at Dubai marina...

65' Custom Built Motoryacht, staterooms, gps navigation, twin supercharged diesels, etc. = £2.5 million.

Champagne and Strawberries, dockside, for the excited "soon to be owners" = £250.00



Crane and Rigging complete with faulty turnbuckle = £2,500 per hour



Watching your dreamboat nose dive into the harbour, accompanied by two corporate representatives just prior to "inking" the final paperwork...



Hehehe - Priceless!

Edited by Asterix on Wednesday 22 August 14:52

[john_r]

Repost alert... for what feels like the 148th time in about 2 years!

[blueyes]

rrrreeeeeppppp

[Asterix]

john_r said:

Repost alert... for what feels like the 148th time in about 2 years!

Really?

sorry :verysorryandembarassed:

[Marki]

You are in so much trouble now

[TonyHetherington]

STANDARD REPOST RULES ARE IN OPERATION; YOU SHOUT REPOST, YOU LINK TO ORIGINAL THREAD

...if you don't, I change your profile picture to the YMCA dance.

(I've not seen it on here before, by the way, only by e-mail!

[freddies_dad]

Asterix said:

sorry :verysorryandembarassed:

Not good enough, soldier. Get outta this town. Reposters make me sick. Them and paedo's :spit:

[_Batty_]

TonyHetherington said:

STANDARD REPOST RULES ARE IN OPERATION; YOU SHOUT REPOST, YOU LINK TO ORIGINAL THREAD

...if you don't, I change your profile picture to the YMCA dance.

(I've not seen it on here before, by the way, only by e-mail!

alright stroppy.



(i hadn't seen it before either)

[Norbury90]

I haven't seen it before either.

I'm liking the crazy bloke attempting to surf the plummeting boat in the middle pic

[TonyHetherington]

Surely it wasn't the best idea being on a boat that's being hoisted rather high up?

[mattrm]

Classy. I feel sorry for the two guys clinging on to the back. That must have been some ride.

[Fallen Angel]

Oh my god... what happened to the champagne

[NikB]

First time I've seen that it as well

Just as well it didn't go in backwards really.

[pikey]

TonyHetherington said:

Surely it wasn't the best idea being on a boat that's being hoisted rather high up?

Quite standard apparently. The fault (so I read) was that the front and rear straps weren't fastened together so when it moved in some wind, one of them came off. Of the two guys in the pic, one suffered a broken arm, the other bruised. Insurance wrote off the boat (it bounced off the bottom apparently) and that was that.

[TonyHetherington]

"bounced off the bottom".

One thing that does make me chuckle though is that one of the noted points of the £xm boat was "GPS navigation".

Reminds me of an advert I saw once for a £100k 911 Turbo. It read something like "delivery mileage 911TT. X50 pack silver with black. Third brake light"

[spitfire-ian]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/badlaunch.asp 

[andy_s]

...there should be a boats forum...

[XJSJohn]

TonyHetherington said:

Surely it wasn't the best idea being on a boat that's being hoisted rather high up?

who is going to catch the rope to tie it to the quayside once "launched" and have the G&T's ready for the new owner as they step aboard?


And can't say i had seen that before either so thanks for that, rather amusing!

[becca_viola]

andy_s said:

...there should be a boats forum...

There is.

Edited by becca_viola on Wednesday 22 August 15:30

[ewenm]

spitfire-ian said:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/badlaunch.asp 

I thought Snopes was going to explain how it had been faked, but no!