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[wakeup]

I was boating in South of France this weekend with friends and spent some time floating around Antibe. An 18ft searay sports boat pulled up next to us and it had 'tender to ????????' on the back. It then proceeded back to a super yatch where it was craned onto the front of a rather swish super yatch.

I also noticed quite a few speed boats with Tender to ........... in the marinas there. Now I may be a nieve Welsh boy but I ain't never seen this on anyhting other than rubber dinghy tenders before.

So if you want to avoid people in bigger boats taking the piss, simply put the words 'Tender To' in front of your boat name. When people ask where the mother ship is, you tell them the marina didn't have a big enough berth and she's moored off shore in deep water ;-)

yada yada..

 

[tcm]

hmm, but they'll still taker the piss if you didn't orgainse a berth which has enough depth for ferries. Have sent a nice few piccies to b1 for examples of quite large boats which are tenders....

 

[EME]

..and the real posh ones the go and sling the whole Super Yacht underneath a Bell ranger or similar. Amazing bit of engineering....


...I wanna boat please..

 

[wakeup]

Yeagh, how do those helicopters lift those super yatchs???

yada yada..

 

[aswade]

My employer knows someone whose brother's 350 foot yacht carries both a 70 foot Guy Couach express cruiser and a 72 foot sailboat as "tenders."

It's pretty obscene, if you ask me....

 

[tcm]

Re: Grand Bleu?

It must be. But not obscene. Much better to tip out all the money rather than hoarde it, imho!

 

[aswade]

Re: Grand Bleu?

Yes, could only be "Le Grand Bleu." The McCaws are quite the prolific megayacht owning family, although Craig sold Tattoosh to Paul Allen.

I'm all for conspicuous consumption, but these 300 foot plus megayachts now being built are OTT. My employer's family own a rather large megayacht, and I've been on quite a few of them in the course of my employment with him, so I have a pretty good gauge on what they're all about. If you look at the specs of the "average" 50 meter megayacht and compare it to one that has two or three times the displacement, oftentimes they all are geared to carry about the same number of guests so spending fifty million pounds to build a 90 meter yacht instead of fifteen million pounds on a 50 meter yacht is often more about ego and "mine is bigger than yours" than it is about added utility. You don't have to hoard it, or even leave it to your undeserving heirs, you can do better things with it than spend it on certain things. When you've been to as many third world countries as I have, and seen the scale of the suffering millions of people on this planet suffer, boats like Le Grand Bleu are obscene.

There are many who find the concept of even something like your Leopard obscene. My own subjective standards, having been around a lot of billionaires (most of whom are not very nice people) are quite high in allowing for mansions, Gulfstream Vs and megayachts before becoming unconscionable, but I still find these latest generation of massive vessels to be obscene.

 

[ChrisP]

Re: Grand Bleu?

So stopping the production of super yachts will save the world !! All it will do is put thousands of people out of work and destroy umpteen small companies that pay the tax's to support you wingers in your futile aid schemes.

Super yachts. yes please. Give me the cash and I'll have as many as I can point at.

They will of course have the added advantage of somewhere to enjoy the G&T when old Georgy boy starts blowing up the word in aid of his re-election plan.

As for the starving third world, they don't want a super yacht, no water. They'd rather the "super powers" stopped funding the freedom fighters (terrorists), that keep their countries locked in civil war and poor.

If your looking for support in the knocking of what is most boaters dream you might have chosen the wrong place to set up stall. Try green peace or some similar area where your idealistic claptrap will be appreciated.

What do you mean the sea gull in front's walking !!!

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Others think it - you say it

Chris,

How politically in-correct of you....but it did make me laugh.

Madoc Yacht Club
www.madocyachtclub.co.uk

 

[aswade]

Not what I wrote at all

Please reread my post. Where in my post do I say that superyachts are wrong? I said my employer's family has one- it's close to 200 feet long in fact. I just said that at a certain point, building an even bigger yacht is just a p**sing contest because a sixty million pound yacht's added utility versus a twenty million pound yacht is relatively small, and that to me, the latest crop of 350 and 400 foot yachts were over-the-top and I found them obscene.

Feel free to launch a diatribe against Greenpeace and their ilk, I feel that extremism in any form is wrong.

In fact, so that you don't get your facts wrong the next time you are arguing with a Greenpeace activist, I feel compelled to point out to you that a disproportionate number of megayachts are in fact owned by people from third world countries- Saudi billionaires and people who've gotten rich as cronies of some third world dictator are among the best customers of Feadship et al. In fact, one oil Sheik has two megayachts- a 237 footer for him and his family, and a measly 220 footer to follow the other boat around carrying servants, mistresses and water toys.

It is actually those yacht owning billionaire third world types that are more at fault for their own countries' woes than U.S. policy or any other such thing. They have been looting their countries for decades whilst their people starve, all the while blaming the "evil U.S." and its horrendous foreign policies in a (largely successful) attempt to direct their people's anger away from their own actions as unelected rulers who've stashed billions in Switzerland whilst their citizens suffer.

My employer's family have owned shipyards, been involved with some of the world's largest shipping companies, and been the distributors for many marine products, so I am hardly trying to shut down any small boating industry companies. Any such misconceptions on your part must be due to a lack of reading comprehension because it's certainly not what I wrote.