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

[MapisM]

That's a nice (and in high fashion, these days!) modification indeed, but I'm more intrigued by the technical layout.

Am I right in understanding that the ship has two huge pods for propulsion, at the bow and at the stern, and the latter is placed on stbd side of the hull rather than along the centerline?
If so, I can't for the life of me think of a reason for such asymmetrical placement...

Btw, you might suggest whoever made the drawing to correct the label "Duetz" in "Deutz", and "Schottle" in "Schottel"...

 

[jfm]

That's a nice (and in high fashion, these days!) modification indeed, but I'm more intrigued by the technical layout.

Am I right in understanding that the ship has two huge pods for propulsion, at the bow and at the stern, and the latter is placed on stbd side of the hull rather than along the centerline?
If so, I can't for the life of me think of a reason for such asymmetrical placement...

Btw, you might suggest whoever made the drawing to correct the label "Duetz" in "Deutz", and "Schottle" in "Schottel"...

I can't believe this thread is still going and that some people above seem to believe all this. It was fantasy in the first few posts, and it's still fantasy now. Off centre propulsion is an interesting innovation anyway! As is a sitting room with two shower rooms off it. Do guests suddenly decide, when watching a movie or whatever, that they need a shower right there and then and there's no time to walk to their cabins?

 

[MrB]

I have been waiting for your input into this thread. Wouldn't you know him or at least know people that do? Top trolling if it's fake.

 

[MrB]

And i do think it's fake.

 

[OceanSprint]

As is a sitting room with two shower rooms off it. Do guests suddenly decide, when watching a movie or whatever, that they need a shower right there and then and there's no time to walk to their cabins?

Perhaps its to wash all the bullsh#t off when it gets unbearably thick?

 

[longjohnsilver]

Funny stuff.

I heard the BBC is doing a documentary on me soon; aparantly ready in September. Not for the boat, but for other stuff. I'm not quite sure why i keep posting, and dropping in new facts like this that I know will cause mockery!

On the details - yes; she has two decks (levels) of fuel tanks. I think they are 25 cubes each incapacity on average.

Anyway. Must go, have to meet with a few Prime Ministers!

Has anyone seen this documentary?

 

[Cheery]

Do guests suddenly decide, when watching a movie or whatever, that they need a shower right there and then and there's no time to walk to their cabins?

Depends on the movie!

 

[colhel]

I think it takes a very confident man to stick their neck out and either say this thread is either true or false. I think JFM is the only one to come up with a view either way.
Anybody willing to say they believe this thread to be true?

 

[jfm]

Col, it's obviously just a big troll thing. CR was completely untruthful on first couple of pages when he took a 'net picture of another boat, mashed it around in MSPaint, then said it was his. Plus a load of similar things - documentaries made in the summer are not ready by September. Even yesterday's posting of tech drawings that misspell big brand names like Deutz and Schottel is obviously a smellable rat. And he seems pretty keen on his views tally. I gave up after 100 or so posts so I have only skimmed some of the last 500+ above, but what he writes above is obviously pure fantasy. No harm done of course, though I'd prefer it on another forum so as to keep up the tradition of this one being focussed on real boating info. First world problem I suppose

 

[Bouba]

I think it takes a very confident man to stick their neck out and either say this thread is either true or false. I think JFM is the only one to come up with a view either way.
Anybody willing to say they believe this thread to be true?

Me

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I think it takes a very confident man to stick their neck out and either say this thread is either true or false. I think JFM is the only one to come up with a view either way.
Anybody willing to say they believe this thread to be true?

Jeez. Fiji, Malaysia, buying boats in Viareggio, houses in Greece, meeting prime ministers. All within the space of 2 pages on this forum. Either this guy is Austin Powers, international man of mystery, or he's a troll

 

[Bouba]

Just compare this thread to any of the project thread (in any kind of forum). It starts with ideas, some fanciful and some that in some version or other will make to the final stage. And then there are delays, either because the ideas are impracticable or people and suppliers let you down and of course the biggest delays come when you have to go back to work to pay for the next stage.
This thread is of course on an epic scale but I'm sure if this was a super yacht forum we would think nothing of it. Some of Capital R's earlier posts were just a toe in the water to see if this was the right place for the discussion.
Of course I could be wrong but so what he hasn't asked for my bank details, I think he is just a very busy young man

 

[MapisM]

Anybody willing to say they believe this thread to be true?

Well, it's pretty obvious that the most rational answer to your question is no.
But coming to think about it, does it really matter?
In a sense, the chap deserves some attention even just for going the trouble of making up such a hard to support story...
I'm not rushing to buy the flight ticket for joining the launch party, though!

 

[Bouba]

Jeez. Fiji, Malaysia, buying boats in Viareggio, houses in Greece, meeting prime ministers. All within the space of 2 pages on this forum. Either this guy is Austin Powers, international man of mystery, or he's a troll

Hi Mike, if you are a kiwi, then Fiji and Malaysia aren't so far away. And meeting leaders from tiny South Pacific islands isn't that difficult.

 

[sorabain]

I was highly skeptical at first, and went out of my way to identify who the owner was. Having found out and thinking i'd caught an imposter it turned out that he's genuine. I believe someone local to the boat also took pictures that tally with the story so far. The guy is incredibly busy with his business, probably spends most of his life jetlagged so perhaps some of the earlier lack of detail and grasp of fine detail could be forgiven.

 

[MapisM]

Even yesterday's posting of tech drawings that misspell big brand names like Deutz and Schottel is obviously a smellable rat.

Apropos J, I forgot to mention it in my first comment to the drawing, but both the misspelling and the off-centre stern pod are nothing when compared to the bow pod, which seems to lack an engine attached to it...

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Hi Mike, if you are a kiwi, then Fiji and Malaysia aren't so far away. And meeting leaders from tiny South Pacific islands isn't that difficult.

Neither is France or Germany very far from the UK but that doesnt mean I'm meeting Merkel and Macron regularly

I have to say though that I hope the OP keeps this thread going because its very entertaining

 

[ari]

I was highly skeptical at first, and went out of my way to identify who the owner was. Having found out and thinking i'd caught an imposter it turned out that he's genuine. I believe someone local to the boat also took pictures that tally with the story so far. The guy is incredibly busy with his business, probably spends most of his life jetlagged so perhaps some of the earlier lack of detail and grasp of fine detail could be forgiven.

When was it proved that he was genuine? I've seen a photo of someone that looks a little like who he's saying he is taken from a long way away. And there has been one or two photos from on board a ship that looked like they were taken very sneakily at night with a phone and the rest from off the ship, and that's about it. And I've seen lots of promises to all meet up. One day...

It's not hard to prove who you are if there's (in this case quite understandable) doubt - but if this guy has done that then I must have missed it and I'd be very intrigued to know what it was.

 

[Mr Googler]

Wasn’t custard proven which is the only true measure

 

[TwoHooter]

Wasn’t custard proven which is the only true measure

No, it wasn't. Here is the full custard history minus the rather endearing selfie of HenryF after he had been kicked out of Wetherspoons for attempting to pay his bar bill with a tin of custard:-

Mmmmm.
I call 'custard!'. In case the OP does not know, this is an established 'put up or shut up!' Onus on the OP to upload a photo of said subject with a tin of 'Birds eye powder custard ' in the foreground . Good luck with that

I've been trying not to get sucked into this since it started, but can resist no longer. It will be such fun if it is real. Let's find out. Capital_R - here's your custard. They will ship it anywhere in the world:-
https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/birds-custard-powder-original

Perhaps this should have been shared ???

Maybe, but what does it prove? It is good evidence that somebody followed up my link to British Corner Shop and ordered a tin of custard to be sent c/o Skudi Industri. That person may or may not have the first name Robert, and may or may not be the owner of a laptop visible in the background. He clearly has the use of a desk or shelf but it's not a very nicely finished shelf (is that a bare edge of laminated chipboard in the foreground?) and the seat behind looks like vinyl. The person who ordered the custard has enough spare money to buy a rather expensive tin of custard but no suitable boat to include in the photograph, let alone a 50m "yacht" conversion, and although it does look as though the picture might possibly have been taken on a boat I'd say it is not of yacht fit-out standard. That evidence is not good custard.

I haven't been following this thread for a while so I might possibly have missed later and better custard evidence. But if I haven't, and the post from Divemaster1 is the only custard evidence then I agree with JFM, CapitalR is trolling us. But not very successfully because the two indicators of successful trolling are the stirring-up of acrimonious dissent and the emergence of Godwin's Law, neither of which we have suffered. More of a wind-up than a troll perhaps?