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We went sailing on Mirabella 5 last week. It was utterly and totally fantastic.
We joined the boat from Monaco, the day after the grand prix.
I think the crew had hoped that it might be easier/quicker to lift the anchors than it actually was, but after a couple of hours of diver help to unknit the anchors from all the other anchors, MV motored out of the port.
The deck is very high up - especially the upper flybridge deck which might be 30-40 feet from the sea. It's a better height from which to see other big boats, and unlike smaller boats the view is not invariably dominated by the sea in the foreground.
Bit overcast in monaco but it soon cleared. The Hinckley tender rejoined at sea outside monaco. Very whizzy how the tender can be hoiked on board even whilst underway. It drives up to tyre-wheel arrangement to locate the bow, then engines off and winched in.
12ish knots of wind onshore breeze so sails up and whoosh off it went. We had some lunch whilst sailing along, all very swish.
Mostly, I just sat around in one or more of the hundreds of comfy seats on the gigantic deck, thinking flippinek, wow. Even the head honcho of a big superyacht brokerage (also on board) was blown away, and rang up lots of his mates to tell them he was on Mirabella 5, and texted plenty of people as well.
I have some pics. Hope they work...
edit: er, damn they didn't work.... i will have another go..
We joined the boat from Monaco, the day after the grand prix.
I think the crew had hoped that it might be easier/quicker to lift the anchors than it actually was, but after a couple of hours of diver help to unknit the anchors from all the other anchors, MV motored out of the port.
The deck is very high up - especially the upper flybridge deck which might be 30-40 feet from the sea. It's a better height from which to see other big boats, and unlike smaller boats the view is not invariably dominated by the sea in the foreground.
Bit overcast in monaco but it soon cleared. The Hinckley tender rejoined at sea outside monaco. Very whizzy how the tender can be hoiked on board even whilst underway. It drives up to tyre-wheel arrangement to locate the bow, then engines off and winched in.
12ish knots of wind onshore breeze so sails up and whoosh off it went. We had some lunch whilst sailing along, all very swish.
Mostly, I just sat around in one or more of the hundreds of comfy seats on the gigantic deck, thinking flippinek, wow. Even the head honcho of a big superyacht brokerage (also on board) was blown away, and rang up lots of his mates to tell them he was on Mirabella 5, and texted plenty of people as well.
I have some pics. Hope they work...
edit: er, damn they didn't work.... i will have another go..
