The World

[Athlon]

The World arrived at Falmouth today, this is a cruise type ship called a yatch apparently where the people on board actually own and live in the apartments on board.

Ihad heard about her before but never expected to see her in the flesh, I must say I was a tad disappointed, it is very shiney and all that but it looks like something you would cross the channel in..

Anyway it is there for a couple of days and is interesting to read up on, I wonder whe the guests on her are?

[Athlon]

Sorry pics are on my new Samsung s4 mini which is turning out to be a bit pants unless it is just Cornwalls poor 3g connections?
Easy to find on t'internet though.

Btw, it seems the service charge for an apartment on this thing is about 30k $ a month!!

[Simpo Two]

There's no such thing as a yatch, it's just yacht spelled wrong.

[Getragdogleg]

How long is it here for ?

[WCZ]

this boat really gets about!

[Perik Omo]

I saw it in Auckland NZ last year and had a chat with one of the pursers. At that time there were a couple of apartments for sale and the cost of these was in the millions of $ and as you state the colossal monthly fees mean you would have to be very, very wealthy. He said the biggest problem for the "residents" was the boredom of living almost full time on the ship and can imagine it would be very claustrophobic seeing, living and eating with the same people all the time. He did say that the apartments had kitchens but these were rarely used and most people used the restaurants (there was also a small deli on board where you could buy stuff if you wanted to do your own food).

[StephenP]

[quote=Perik Omo]... seeing, living and eating with the same people all the time/quote]

Sounds like being in an old folks home!

[Fishtigua]

The 2014 itinerary looks quite interesting compared to normal cruises.

http://aboardtheworld.com/journey

[TTwiggy]

Simpo Two said:

There's no such thing as a yatch, it's just yacht spelled wrong.

If there's a mizzen forward of the tiller, it might be a kecht.

[Fishtigua]

TTwiggy said:

Simpo Two said:

There's no such thing as a yatch, it's just yacht spelled wrong.

If there's a mizzen forward of the tiller, it might be a kecht.

A Cruiseship is thus kitch, non?

[paul0843]

Just got an order for some onyx and marble
so she's definitely here to have some work doing.

[Manicminer]

Fishtigua said:

The 2014 itinerary looks quite interesting compared to normal cruises.

http://aboardtheworld.com/journey

That does look pretty good. I wonder how much a cabin really costs. I can't see living in one of the studio rooms (think Travelodge) being attractive to the seriously rich.

The 3 bed cabin does look pretty nice though.