Roman's new toy

[B1G GK]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...


Still have me 2 man Dingy

[Mister V]

With all the domes on top does anyone else think it bears more than a passing resemblance to:

[ApexJimi]

Jaysus that is absolutely staggering!

[dcw@pr]

I suppose the point of this sort of thing is so that someone very private can basically have a house anywhere they want in the world (where there is water!), without having to stay in a hotel?

[Geneve]

Where's the helipad?

[anonymous-user]

Geneve said:

Where's the helipad?

Top deck!

[Patrico]

helipad? its big enough for a runway

[Taffer]

dcw@pr said:

I suppose the point of this sort of thing is so that someone very private can basically have a house anywhere they want in the world (where there is water!), without having to stay in a hotel?

That, and the Billy Big bks element comes into it - Abramovich already has a couple of yachts that are in the world's biggest top 20, and has lent one, Le Grand Bleu, to a friend. He's just upping the ante by having the ultimate status symbol - the new yacht is even bigger than Dubai's Royal Yacht (the previous biggest yacht IIRC), so 'Eclipse' is an apt name.

[Slagathore]

Very impresive.

I can't really think of a need for something that big, I mean, how many people is he really going to entertain on it at any given time?

Still, if you've got the money...

[TEKNOPUG]

I'll take a second Russian battleship with a refit please, safe in the knowledge that it isn't going to sink or capzise. Mooring in Monaco might be an issue...

[central]

Wikilist -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_yachts_...

[SkinnyBoy]

whilst very impressive, its not very different really is it? All these gin palaces look like this just scaled up in this instance. If i had this chaps wealth I'd much rather have something like Stromberg's Atlantis



Oh and a supertanker hollowed out to steal submarines.. Id call it Liparus.

[ApexJimi]

SkinnyBoy said:

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So, depending on which source you wish to believe, the Eclipse has cost Roman anything between £300 & £700m and as far my understanding goes, he hasn't actually had the boat built from scratch - he has simply paid for it to be extensively re-fitted.

Could something like the Atlantis be built for that kind of money? I'm not convinced it could......

[XB70]

No style to it at all. Just looks like a wedding cake with the decks.

His other gin palace, the Pelorus, looks brilliant.

That being said, give me a couple of state industries too and I think I could come up with some pretty impressive ways to spend my new found gains.

[greggy50]

PW said:

garyhun said:

Geneve said:

Where's the helipad?

Top deck!

Apparently there is a landing pad on the foredeck which lowers the helicopter into a hanger in the bow, similar to Ecstasea.

Taffer said:

and has lent one, Le Grand Bleu, to a friend.

The rumour was that he gave it away, rather than lent. Its replacement is also nearing launch in Germany.

I also heard this had been given away saw it in falmouth about a month ago whilst I was on holiday it had 3 smaller boats on the back which were still bigger than the boat we were on lol. I

[ben]

greggy50 said:

PW said:

garyhun said:

Geneve said:

Where's the helipad?

Top deck!

Apparently there is a landing pad on the foredeck which lowers the helicopter into a hanger in the bow, similar to Ecstasea.

Taffer said:

and has lent one, Le Grand Bleu, to a friend.

The rumour was that he gave it away, rather than lent. Its replacement is also nearing launch in Germany.

I also heard this had been given away saw it in falmouth about a month ago whilst I was on holiday it had 3 smaller boats on the back which were still bigger than the boat we were on lol. I

It was anchored off Lymington this weekend

[village idiot]

ben said:

greggy50 said:

PW said:

garyhun said:

Geneve said:

Where's the helipad?

Top deck!

Apparently there is a landing pad on the foredeck which lowers the helicopter into a hanger in the bow, similar to Ecstasea.

Taffer said:

and has lent one, Le Grand Bleu, to a friend.

The rumour was that he gave it away, rather than lent. Its replacement is also nearing launch in Germany.

I also heard this had been given away saw it in falmouth about a month ago whilst I was on holiday it had 3 smaller boats on the back which were still bigger than the boat we were on lol. I

It was anchored off Lymington this weekend

yup... it desperately needs new paint... i sailed round it a couple of time yesterday... the topsides were in awful shape.

[spearsy]

That is a big one, i worked on an Arabs Mega yacht last year restoring the paintwork on the hull, the owner use to have 3 one was Pelorous which he sold to Abramovich and the other he lost on a bet to his mate CRAZY.