Should hijackers be shown the way to SpecSavers?

[Greenheart]

Here's the 'luxury yacht' hijacked last month near Corsica...

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...WHY?? Can they have thought it attractive? Amazingly enough it seems to have disappeared now. Must it have sunk? Difficult to imagine such a carbuncle remaining unseen.

 

[TonyBuckley]

Would that sail actually ever do anything? How weird.

 

[sailorman]

Would that sail actually ever do anything? How weird.

stop her rolling so much & weather cock her @ anchor

 

[dmayes]

She's probably carrying a sailing dinghy on deck and forgotten to take the sail down

 

[Greenheart]

Or there's another small yacht, behind her in the photo. Rather an oddly-proportioned one!

 

[jerrytug]

I need some bleach for my eyeballs, don't look unless you have a tough constitution (or own one of the new Moodys)

 

[Bru]

how the hell did the pirates get on board? just look at the height of those topsides!

( that is one hideous looking boat it has to be said)

 

[Habebty]

I rather like it. Looks fairly tough and businesslike. But then checkout the Dashew boats. ( http://setsail.com/category/dashew-offshore/ ) They can hardly be called graceful yet fulfil certain practical considerations and capable of going anywhere.
Personally, I would rather face some weather in the above than some of the "luxury yachts" about at the mo.

 

[Seajet]

Dan,

I can only agree, but I have two theories which might explain it;

1, They did it for a drunken bet - which is surely how the thing got ordered to begin with,

2, It was removed from our view forever by a benevolent team of Taste Police - like a sort of International Rescue for the worlds' eyeballs.

 

[Greenheart]

It was removed from our view forever by a benevolent team of Taste Police - like a sort of International Rescue for the worlds' eyeballs.

:biggrin-new: Ah...if only...

 

[oldharry]

Steadying sail essential - to prevent it spilling the g&t. As they said of the old wartime corvettes - it would 'roll on a dewdrop'

But I have a theory; I dont think it was ever hijacked. As OP says, who would want to? No, it has simply been removed by outraged locals.... and sunk in the deepest water they could find.

 

[Greenheart]

...it has simply been removed by outraged locals...and sunk in the deepest water they could find.

What a pity it won't be suitable as an artificial reef - with those looks, it'll frighten off the fish.

As soon as I saw the picture, I had one clear thought, a feeling of recognition from long ago...

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[Seajet]

Imagine paying megabucks for the thing then when calling marinas on approach, " Do you require a windward berth Sir ?"

" Well actually, if you've got a dark corner..."

 

[Greenheart]

Hmm...the next super-yacht accessory: an electrically-unfolding sight-screen, cricket-pitch style...protecting sensitive shore-side onlookers from the design's startling ugliness...

 

[Aardee]

Well I'm going to buck the trend and say I rather like it

 

[hartcjhart]

I suppose if this is your normal type of boat then yes it would be a luxury yacht

 

[parbuckle]

I think it makes a change from those huge Princessy things all pointy with impossible side decks like a Disney spaceship , if it was painted grey it would resemble a customs vessel on speed.

 

[Seajet]

No it wouldn't, more like the fevered imaginings of an architect ( NOT Naval ) whose mother was frightened by a nasty reversing accident by a tug into a tower block just before both disappeared into a Black Hole. At least that's the design brief as far as seems patently obvious; I expect after suitable weaning off the pangalactic gargleblasters the owner will be on the Graham Norton show to explain and seek forgiveness - I'm afraid it's File 13 for the ' designer '.

 

[parbuckle]

No it wouldn't, more like the fevered imaginings of an architect ( NOT Naval ) whose mother was frightened by a nasty reversing accident by a tug into a tower block just before both disappeared into a Black Hole. At least that's the design brief as far as seems patently obvious; I expect after suitable weaning off the pangalactic gargleblasters the owner will be on the Graham Norton show to explain and seek forgiveness - I'm afraid it's File 13 for the ' designer '.

I take it thats going into room 101 then.

Or perhaps thats where its gone.

 

[prv]

I'd prefer something a little curvier in the hull and more boat-like in the superstructure, but I don't think it's as ugly as some people are making out.

Pete