"The billion-dollar yacht"

[Greenheart]

I found this pic in Forbes magazine, from a couple of years ago...but I suppose nothing so ostentatiously hideous ever got off the drawing board:

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I think it was meant as a mobile tax-haven...live in Vegas-style luxury and claim to be of no fixed address, while making heaps of tax-free cash?

I found it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoc...the-worlds-first-billion-dollar-yacht-photos/

Rather cheap, making the helicopter share space with the tennis court...

 

[Tranona]

It does have the lime green deck trim in common with your yacht. Perhaps that it is the answer for your non slip - a bit of astroturf.

 

[Gordonmc]

Yikes...!
George Osborne may think he's found a use for the new aircraft carriers which have no planes.

 

[Greenheart]

It does have the lime green deck trim in common with your yacht...

Ouch! I hadn't noticed that. Though, I have stated my shame, and my intent to change it.

I'd love to see the tsunami in those enormous swimming pools when she meets some oceanic swell...

 

[prv]

I'd love to see the tsunami in those enormous swimming pools when she meets some oceanic swell...

Those big sponsons on the bottom look like a "wave piercing" design, aimed to minimise the effect of waves. Plus owners will rarely be on board during ocean passages, they'll be living in a hotel or house elsewhere while the "boat" is taken to its next location.

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

...owners will rarely be on board during ocean passages...

Damned shame. I can picture most of the cast of Casablanca, idling in and out of the bars as the whole grotesque thing sways across the Atlantic...

...or do I mean Across the Pacific?

 

[Ric]

I found this pic in Forbes magazine, from a couple of years ago...but I suppose nothing so ostentatiously hideous ever got off the drawing board:


I think it was meant as a mobile tax-haven...live in Vegas-style luxury and claim to be of no fixed address, while making heaps of tax-free cash?

I found it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoc...the-worlds-first-billion-dollar-yacht-photos/

Rather cheap, making the helicopter share space with the tennis court...

I wouldn't mind one as long as it has a place to berth my boat.

 

[rogerthebodger]

That is not a yacht that's a block of flats like most cruise ships you see today.

 

[prv]

That is not a yacht that's a block of flats like most cruise ships you see today.

It's not pretending to be a yacht, though. It's a floating island. I actually think it's less tasteless than the massive blingy motorboat alternative.

Pete

 

[rogerthebodger]

It's not pretending to be a yacht, though. It's a floating island. I actually think it's less tasteless than the massive blingy motorboat alternative.

Pete

Yes I know that it not really a yacht but my mooring is just across the harbour from the cruise ship terminal so every week we are on the boat we see this

http://www.google.co.za/imgres?imgu...5eUY6tEsSDhQfM_4CgBw&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAw&dur=2574

IMHO more like a block of flats than a ship.