Sailing Yacht A impounded

[westhinder]

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.

My parents had a Princess too, and as I recall, the design was far from the worst aspect, it was just a poor car mechanically. On a damp day it was always uncertain if it was going to start or not. We became experts at drying out the vital parts with a hairdryer on a long lead.

 

[ProMariner]

Sailing yacht A has not been impounded, fake news, she has entered voluntarily into special assistance measures with the port, to eradicate invasive species.

 

[Pump-Out]

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

Better still, use the cabins as emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees.
Just to turn the screw a little more.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

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.

I had one. First car I owned that had power steering. I seem to remember having the smell of burnt oil . I also had a 1.8 Morris Marina and an Morris Ital. Shame I couldn't complete the set with an Allegro. All were company cars so I had no choice, and they had to be British.

 

[Thistle]

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

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I would much prefer not to behold.

 

[capnsensible]

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.

Opinion is not truth. I'm surprised you can't understand that......

 

[Zing]

Opinion is not truth. I'm surprised you can't understand that......

That’s my point! I’m glad we agree for once.

 

[LittleSister]

No. As Keats put it:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty . . .’

Sounds neat, but in my experience the truth is often rather ugly.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

I suppose they do bring work to people building them which is then redistributed in goods and services.

 

[V1701]

I suppose they do bring work to people building them which is then redistributed in goods and services.

That'll be the trickledown effect, which is definitely a real thing, according to the very rich...

 

[LittleSister]

One can but feel sympathy for the hard done by citizens of Trieste, who are stuck with looking at the thing for the foreseeable.

 

[Bobc]

That's hope they either use it as accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, or they sink the ugly monstrosity.

 

[capnsensible]

It's clear then that modern cutting edge design advances don't appeal much to the old and grumpies.

I'm sure the WesterlyCentaur Solent Squadron are outraged.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

One can but feel sympathy for the hard done by citizens of Trieste, who are stuck with looking at the thing for the foreseeable.

There's always a plus side. It could turn out as a natural Guano factory for the locals.

 

[Concerto]

What is the situation when a super yacht is siezed and what will happen to them? Well the answers might be in this article.

What happens to Russian mega yachts once they are seized?

 

[lustyd]

While what that article says may be reasonable it ignores that these are almost certainly bought with bank loans which can no longer be paid due to other sanctions so the situation may well become even stranger as I can’t imagine banks would want to take ownership.

 

[dgadee]

While what that article says may be reasonable it ignores that these are almost certainly bought with bank loans which can no longer be paid due to other sanctions so the situation may well become even stranger as I can’t imagine banks would want to take ownership.

Plenty of wealth in our new world order. I'm sure someone will buy them cheaply at auction.

 

[lustyd]

Plenty of wealth in our new world order. I'm sure someone will buy them cheaply at auction.

Oh for sure, and the tax payer will almost certainly foot the bill. I just wish I'd understood such schemes earlier in life so I could be on the other side of the equation!

 

[laika]

It's clear then that modern cutting edge design advances don't appeal much to the old and grumpies.

Just because something doesn't look "traditional" doesn't mean it's "cutting edge". Are you referring to the aesthetic or the technologies required to implement it? If the former...it looks aggressive and militaristic. That kind of works for (motor) Yacht A but presumably whether to not it works for you depends on whether you think the projection of those qualities says something positive in the context of a sailing vessel. Which of course it isn't really which brings us to the point about technology: Unlike the Maltese Falcon which did make use of innovative technologies to produce a radical *actual* sailing vessel, if we assume that Melnichenko isn't driven by a concern to save a few bob on fuel bills with sail assistance that means that those enormous masts and the technology to produce them were purely for the look of it. Is something which takes huge cost and technology to produce for no significant functional benefit "good design"? Or simply an outrageous waste of resources for an ostentatious show of wealth and power?

Plus of course Starck would have been in his 60s when he designed that so hardly a young gun. But then I'm not a pensioner and these things are subjective..

 

[capnsensible]