Cruise Reports Taking our yacht to Sweden for the summer - any 50m marinas?

[s50cam]

This thread gets better and better, could it really be him/you ?

I'll settle for a photo of you holding a can of custard

In fact the photo on page 4 shows a remarkable likeness

Welcome to the board !

 

[KevB]

This thread gets better and better, could it really be him/you ?

I'll settle for a photo of you holding a can of custard

In fact the photo on page 4 shows a remarkable likeness

Welcome to the board !

Yep, I agree. Looks very similar to the guy standing the Maltese Falcon.

 

[sorabain]

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[KevB]

any coincidence that the captain of the maltese falcon was called Robert Bell? i.e. a google for "Robert Bell yacht" comes up with that very yacht. Is it a better photoshop job than his last attempt with the catamaran?

Robert Bell the captain has less hair??

 

[Bouba]

Now it's getting spooky:ambivalence:

 

[sorabain]

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[Bouba]

I meant if someone was fantasizing about and wanted a picture of him on a yacht, they'd google it and find the Maltese Falcon, but for the wrong reasons (captain's name), but might cut and paste a pic together anyway, as with the dodgy tiny yacht pic with bad resolution.

Sorabain, you said you are in the same business, can you not reach out talk to him or those that know him and put us all out of our misery?

 

[sorabain]

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[KevB]

Now it's getting spooky:ambivalence:

In the immortal words of Eminem - will the real Robert Bell please stand up, please stand up

 

[Bouba]

In the immortal words of Eminem - please stand up

What do chocolate peanuts have to do with anything?

 

[KevB]

What do chocolate peanuts have to do with anything?

 

[longjohnsilver]

https://www.klickex.com/detail.aspx?id=17&hash=f0618f0cb0a2f456a00f911d270e193c

i expect this is who he's pretending to be

That's almost certainly the case. Only his 2013 award came from a different source, but hey, when you've achieved so much success you can be forgiven forgetting where the awards came from.

I suspect we won't be hearing a great deal from our op again........

 

[Bouba]

That's almost certainly the case. Only his 2013 award came from a different source, but hey, when you've achieved so much success you can be forgiven forgetting where the awards came from.

I suspect we won't be hearing a great deal from our op again........

Yes, but will it be because we've outed a fraudster or because we've disrespected his privacy?

 

[MrB]

Yes, but will it be because we've outed a fraudster or because we've disrespected his privacy?

He posted a picture of himself and enough information about himself to lead us to here. This is the internet, what privacy lol.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Yes, but will it be because we've outed a fraudster or because we've disrespected his privacy?

If he's for real then maybe he might respect the fact that we've done our own research and see the amusing side of why we are mostly very sceptical. And if he's not who he claims to be then I expect we'll hear nothing.

I still question the award, lack of credible pics, as well as the poorly photo shopped original pic, and how a 50m vessel can carry more than enough fuel to sink it. And never mind the 7m tender that can cruise at 47kts for 12 hours! And with a petrol engine!!!

I guess my one question is why someone would spend so much time posting all this stuff, last time I looked it was about 70 posts in just a few days.

 

[sorabain]

He posted a picture of himself and enough information about himself to lead us to here. This is the internet, what privacy lol.

Yeah if you want privacy don't flash your credentials around. Noone needed to know. I may well have given this guy a vaguely plausible reason to vanish from the forum, but i don't think anyone will really miss him. I've wasted far too much time in my life already trying to pin down pathological liars on the internet.

(fwiw I googled "otago stanford energy trader")

 

[ari]

Yes, but will it be because we've outed a fraudster or because we've disrespected his privacy?

Wooah, hang on. Are you seriously thinking this could be real?

Just stop and think about the claims that are being made on a basic level.

A 49m boat. With a double ice breaking hull and a helipad.

That can actually convert to an emergency response platform, able to support 200 people for 3-4 weeks at a time, including medical support. (A typical 50M yacht sleeps what, 20 max?)

Oh, and don't forget the 3/4 MILLION litres of fuel - on two decks!

Fitted with a 21ft RIB that does 1,0000+ miles at 20 knots, built by a yard that's running at 100% over budget yet never sends out any photos (except of some of made up beds) and owned by a billionaire who's won some amazing award that doesn't exist!

Seriously?

 

[longjohnsilver]

But it has entertained us for almost a week!:encouragement:

 

[Bouba]

Wooah, hang on. Are you seriously thinking this could be real?

Just stop and think about the claims that are being made on a basic level.

A 49m boat. With a double ice breaking hull and a helipad.

That can actually convert to an emergency response platform, able to support 200 people for 3-4 weeks at a time, including medical support. (A typical 50M yacht sleeps what, 20 max?)

Oh, and don't forget the 3/4 MILLION litres of fuel - on two decks!

Fitted with a 21ft RIB that does 1,0000+ miles at 20 knots, built by a yard that's running at 100% over budget yet never sends out any photos (except of some of made up beds) and owned by a billionaire who's won some amazing award that doesn't exist!

Seriously?

Look I have no skin in this game, it won't affect me if he is or he isn't. But I think there was a bit of a mob mentality going on and I'm like Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, just standing up for the guy. Come on, in 'the lounge' they are debating whether Stonehenge was built last century and comparing Russian brides to Soviet cars, is he more outlandish than that?

 

[sorabain]

Look I have no skin in this game, it won't affect me if he is or he isn't. But I think there was a bit of a mob mentality going on and I'm like Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, just standing up for the guy. Come on, in 'the lounge' they are debating whether Stonehenge was built last century and comparing Russian brides to Soviet cars, is he more outlandish than that?

You have good points, and your patience does you credit.

Personally I think "a character" like this appearing in this forum now and then might keep things interesting and something for regulars to bond over, but ultimately they need to be weeded out. You wouldn't want to leave them around and start feeding off each other with ever greater tales. Pretty soon we'd have Elvis who's just come back from Atlantis after spending time with Captain Nemo, and Elon Musk building a yacht that is going to double up as a Mars base once he's built a hyperloop out that way.