Sailing Yacht A impounded

[fifer]

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-11-22/index.html

As the title says, SY A owned by Andrey Melnichenko has been seized in Italy.

 

[Concerto]

That in my opinion is certainly the ugliest super yacht ever built. So being seized should stop it being an eyesore in many of the world's harbours.

 

[Minerva]

Poor occupants of Trieste; having to look at that monstrosity for the next good few months.

They should just scuttle it, purely in the name of crimes against people with the gift of sight!

 

[harvey38]

Looks more like an RORO ferry with masts. Yuk!

 

[atol]

Could be worse,MV Nord was last seen heading for Vladavistock with 15 UK crew on board.

 

[wallacebob]

I saw it several times in Cartagena; made Spanish navy ships look very pretty in comparison.

 

[capnsensible]

All subjective, isn't it? I think it's a wonderful innovative modern design.

 

[dunedin]

I guess it’s issue was that, unlike Putin’s toy, this boat can’t get back into the Baltic in fully laden mode - as too high to get under the bridge and too deep for the channel above the tunnel

 

[LittleSister]

So, it gets a free berth for a while.

Who knows how all this will play out, but I'm wondering - if this one and all the others aren't returned to their owners before long, how would they be disposed of? Who would buy such a thing off the authorities, especially if the original owners weren't chuffed about the situation?

 

[Concerto]

All subjective, isn't it? I think it's a wonderful innovative modern design.

It reminds me of the Austin Princess wedge shaped body. That was never that well accepted as a design ikon!

 

[2Tizwoz]

So, it gets a free berth for a while.

Who knows how all this will play out, but I'm wondering - if this one and all the others aren't returned to their owners before long, how would they be disposed of? Who would buy such a thing off the authorities, especially if the original owners weren't chuffed about the situation?

The scrap men won't care where it's come from.

 

[LittleSister]

The scrap men won't care where it's come from.

Regardless of the purpose it's put to, one gets the impression that one wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of the ire of some of the current owners of such craft!

 

[dgadee]

It reminds me of the Austin Princess wedge shaped body. That was never that well accepted as a design ikon!

I remember being at a meeting and discussing the old British cars we had owned with a Finn. We both had Princesses and noted that the passenger foot well was always soaking. We also had Hillman Hunters where the driver's door would fly open when you went around a roundabout (I had that one in Milton Keynes). Ah, British car design. Luckily the marine sector was better served.

 

[Sybarite]

I remember being at a meeting and discussing the old British cars we had owned with a Finn. We both had Princesses and noted that the passenger foot well was always soaking. We also had Hillman Minx's where the driver's door would fly open when you went around a roundabout (I had that one in Milton Keynes). Ah, British car design. Luckily the marine sector was better served.

When I first drove a French car each time I changed gear I opened the door.

 

[laika]

All subjective, isn't it? I think it's a wonderful innovative modern design.

Would I be right in saying that like several other of Starck’s creations (that citrus squeezer, the moto 6.5) it’s not actually any cop at being the thing it’s supposed to be? It’s allegedly a “sail assisted motor yacht” and nowhere have I seen any figures for performance under sail, unlike that other futuristic 3 masted sailing super yacht, Maltese Falcon which which I’ll suggest , for me at least, falls into the design classic category rather more than sy A.

I won’t deny that (Motor) yacht A is striking. I don’t even think it’s trying for “beauty”. But a sailing ship should be beautiful and Sailing Yacht A looks like a 22nd century battleship. Wonder what statement Melnichenko was trying to make about himself with it?

 

[Zing]

All subjective, isn't it? I think it's a wonderful innovative modern design.

No. As Keats put it:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’
It‘s a dog and that is the indisputable truth. That you think different doesn’t make it true. Beauty is not essentially subjective.

 

[Blueboatman]

It has angles of tension and discord all over it .
So the eye doesn’t rest .
Stark innit

 

[laika]

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’
[…]
Beauty is not essentially subjective.

It’s like postmodernism never even happened…

 

[2Tizwoz]

I remember being at a meeting and discussing the old British cars we had owned with a Finn. We both had Princesses and noted that the passenger foot well was always soaking. We also had Hillman Hunters where the driver's door would fly open when you went around a roundabout (I had that one in Milton Keynes). Ah, British car design. Luckily the marine sector was better served.

Quite a few Austin Princesses had an additional set of creases in the boot as rear visibility was bad and the bumper didn't overhang enough.

 

[Zing]

It’s like postmodernism never even happened…

If only that were true.